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Typescript essay by [Patrick Sheeran, Nina Fitzpatrick] entitled "Potatoes, Popes and Plays", regarding contemporary Irish dramatists and sectarianism in Northern Ireland. [Authors tentatively suggested on note by Thomas Kilroy.]

Typescript essay by [ ] entitled "L'espace dans Talbot's box", with the handwritten note "Dubost essay?". beginning "Espace du texte, espace de jeu, l'attention particulière portée à la mise en scène..." [Identical with a chapter of that title in Thierry Dubost's Le théatre de Thomas Kilroy (Caen 2001) 51-65.]

Typescript (computer offprint) essay (no author) dealing with the Burntollet March (or People's Democracy March') from Belfast to Derry of 1-4 January 1969, discussing the event, its background and implications, including two photographs; also listing chronology of events from 5 October 1968 to 15 January 1969; structured bibliography (latest publication 1993). Arguing the march pointed the formerly civil rights-orientated movements in the direction of constitutional issues and of national identity. (With caption by [Eamonn Downey] 'on computer'.)

Typescript essay (8 pp) by Thomas Kilroy entitled "The Wildean Triangle" and marked as a Thomas Davis Lecture; with a copy. It describes the creative process of writing The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde , from it being commissioned by the Abbey Theatre, its first realisation as an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray , to Kilroy's reading which informed the eventual play. [This was printed for sending by telefax to Seamus Hosey. An essay of this title was published in a German anthology in 2001.]

Typescript entitled "The Dead Diary", a day by day account by Tony Huston of the preparatory work leading up to the first day of shooting on the set for "The Dead" on the 19th January.

Typescript "early draft" of the first part of Thomas Kilroy's play Double Cross, missing some pages at the end. A few handwritten corrections and commentary. [Paginated 1-50.]

Typescript early draft by Thomas Kilroy, for his adaptation of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author; missing list of characters and first page, and stopping short of the end by a few pages (p.70 of Gallery Press edition). Early version of the beginning. (Listing the literary agent, Casarotto Ramsay Ltd., London.) [Paginated 2-79.]

"Typescript drafts with handwritten additions of lecture entitled ""Prods, papes and Republicans"" by [George Gilmore], read at Magee College (17 pp both). Giving his family background and early insights into the machinations that rulers used to keep people apart; foundation of St. Patrick's Maynooth and the Orange Order with shared purpose; points to popular songs of the United Irishmen and the Young Irelanders; definition of 'republic' taken over from the United Irishmen by the Republican Congress of 1934 and not shared with Fianna Fáil; O'Donnell and Gilmore's decision to leave the I.R.A. and found the Republican Congress."

"Typescript drafts of press article with few handwritten corrections by [Proinsias Mac an Bheatha] entitled ""Bilingualism is not the answer"", beginning 'It may come as a surprise...'; commenting on two essays in the new publication by T.K. Whitaker Interests; advocating renewed government support for the language instead of 'a make -believe bilingualism which, as is the manner with all castrated things, will bear no fruit'. Attached: printed card from The Irish Times Features editor, regretting they cannot publish the article."

Typescript drafts of part of chapter 19 of 'The Dark' beginning 'Holly with red berries was got from Oakport; ivy nearer home, for the bare walls.' includes handwritten amendments;.