Typescript draft of part of 'Memoir' beginning '...panel and had to take the first vacancy within the area.'
Typescript draft of part of 'Galway, Western Ireland's Lilting Heart' beginning 'Between Galway and Clifden is the pleasant village of Oughterard, on the shores of Lough Corrib.' Contains handwritten amendments.
Typescript draft of part of 'Christmas', this draft is entitled 'Something for Himself'; begins 'The thaw overhead in the bare branches has stopped.' First page gives John McGahern's address as 57 Howth Road, Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland, paginated pp 1-12.
Typescript draft of part of 'Christmas' beginning 'The thaw overhead in the bare branches had stopped.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-5.
Typescript draft of part of 'Christmas' this draft entitled 'Each In Their World' beginning 'The thaw overhead in the bare branches had stopped.' Paginated pp 1-4.
Typescript draft of part of chapter 22 of 'The Dark 'beginning 'The days immediately before the exam took on the quality of a dream: time passing, the will paralyzed, watching the certain flow towards the brink in helpless fear and fascination, it could not be true and yet it was drawing relentlessly close.'
Typescript draft of part of 'Bank Holiday' beginning '...in the general grey, and hair iron grey. He was that rare enough figure, a handsome man who grew even more handsome as he aged.' Contains handwritten amendments paginated pp 2- 19.
Typescript draft of part of 'Bank Holiday' beginning ' The next days were so easy that the only anxiety could be that there was none, that they were enclosed dangerously in their own cocoon.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 19-23. Appears to be an updated version of part of P71/588.
Typescript draft of part of a review of 'The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western' beginning 'The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald has become more famous in a half century since it ended than his work.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-3.
Typescript draft of part of a review of 'Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual beginning '...doubt that he could be extremely difficult and did not suffer people he considered fools, but he did inspire as well deep and lasting affections.' Contains handwritten amendments.