Typescript draft of a review of Patrick Kavanagh's collected poems, probably the 2005 Penguin edition; begins with a quote from Kavanagh: "Posterity has no time for anything but the soul, the lines that speak the passionate heart, the spirit that lives alone." Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-3. Reverse side contains handwritten fragments of Memoir .
Typescript draft of a review of Patrick Kavanagh's collected poems, probably the 2005 Penguin edition; begins with a quote from Kavanagh: 'Posterity has no time for anything but the soul, the lines that speak the passionate heart, the spirit that lives alone.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-3. Reverse side contains handwritten fragments of Memoir .
Typescript draft of a review of 'Outlaws' by George V. Higgins published in under the title 'Higgins Goes to the Brinks' in the Evening Herald on 17 June 1987. Begins 'This interesting crime novel sets the first of its many leisurely themes at once....' Contains handwritten amendments.
Typescript draft of a review of 'O'Neill, Son and Playwright' beginning 'Mr Schaeffer makes this claim for his first volume of what is to be a two volume biography of America's greatest playwright.' Contains handwritten amendments. This draft bears the title 'Fact and Factotum' and quotes the price of the book as 60s.
Typescript draft of a review of 'On Another Man's Wound' by Ernie O'Malley published in The Times Literary Supplement . Begins 'I knew of Ernie O'Malley the revolutionary before I knew his writing and stood among the crowds that lined the Dublin footpaths in 1957 to watch his state funeral attended by the President and the Taoiseach, both Houses of the Oireachtas, the judiciary and all the paraphernalia of state.' Contains handwritten amendments, four pages missing, paginated pp 1-6,10-20.
Typescript draft of a review of 'On Another Man's Wound' by Ernie O'Malley published in The Times Literary Supplement . Begins 'When Ernie O'Malley died in 1957, he was given a state funeral attended by the president and the Taoiseach, both Houses of the Oireachtas, the judiciary and all the paraphernalia of State.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp1-18. Reverse side contains handwritten fragments of Memoir .
Typescript draft of a review of 'On Another Man's Wound' by Ernie O'Malley published in 'The Times Literary Supplement'. Begins 'I knew of Ernie O'Malley the revolutionary soldier, I had stood among the crowds that lined the Dublin footpaths in 1957 to watch his state funeral....' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp1-20.
Typescript draft of a review of 'On Another Man's Wound' by Ernie O'Malley published in The Times Literary Supplement . Begins 'I came on the writer Ernie O'Malley by accident.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp1-22.
Typescript draft of a review of 'Off The Road' beginning 'Carolyn Cassady married Jack Cassady and they had three children.' Contains handwritten amendments paginated pp 1-5.
Typescript draft of a review of 'Irish Classics' beginning 'In his introduction, Declan Kiberd gives a number of definitions of a classic, cites Mark Twain's, "A Book nobody wants to read but everybody wishes to have read" '. Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-5.