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Typescript draft of a piece of non-fiction beginning 'It has been said that the god of life is Accident, and we are both its priest and victim, and occasional beneficiary.'

Typescript draft of part of a piece on Christmas in Ireland; beginning 'In America, it is Thanksgiving; in Scotland, the New Year; and in Ireland the great festival is Christmas.' Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of piece on farming which may have appeared in ' The Independent' (London or Irish?), beginning 'I see the mass protests and pickets outside the meat plants as one of those convulsions that occur when something that has endured in our life for long and is deeply embedded is coming to an end....'

Typescript draft of part of piece on farming which may have appeared in ' The Independent' (London or Irish?), beginning '...prospered but had never come home until he was old, though he had lived most of his life only a few hours away.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 2-7, same article as P71/1340.

Typescript draft of a piece on Northern Ireland, southern Protestants and attitudes to Northern Ireland in the Republic; beginning 'A very rare event took place here in the early Winter.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-6.

Typescript draft of the latter part of a piece on Northern Ireland, southern Protestants and attitudes to Northern Ireland in the Republic; beginning '... side and the North on the other. ' Contains handwritten amendments.'

Typescript draft of an autobiographical piece, begins 'One of the few joys of growing older is that we come to know more about the facts that underlie and surround our lives'. Possibly given as an address at Trinity College Dublin.

Typescript draft of 'The Church and It's Spire' beginning 'I was born into the Catholic Church in the same way as I might have been born into Buddhism or Protestantism - materialism, agnosticism, atheism - and I was born into it in the infancy of this small state when it had almost total and unquestioned power.' Contains hand written amendments , paginated pp 1-17, page 10 missing.

Typescript draft of 'Madness/Creativity' beginning 'I have to say at once that I feel nothing but unease when confronted with such a theme'. Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of review of 'The Lost Salt Gift of Blood' by Alistair MacLeod beginning '....England anymore. If anything, these men would complain that people have too much money, more money than they can usefully handle.'