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Typescript draft of a piece of non-fiction relating to giving a lecture in North America, begins 'One year, when I was teaching in the States I was invited to give a reading at a Conference being held at the University of Notre Dame.'

Typescript draft of a piece (possibly and address) on 'Kiltoghert Co-Operative (1901-2000): A History of It's Development' by Mike Joe Mahon beginning 'I little thought when I was cycling in and out of the Presentation Brothers in Carrick-on-Shannon in the 1950s, sometime passing the creamery carts on their way home from Kiltoghert, past the creamery cans standing outside houses and at the end of lanes, that we would one day be celebrating the centenary of Kiltoghert, an institution older than our State.' Includes handwritten amendments and additions, paginated pp 1-4.

Typescript draft of a part of review of 'Flaubert: a Biography' by Herbert Lottman, begins 'It must be very difficult to write a life of Flaubert.' Paginated pp 1-5 contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of a page from 'Bank Holiday', this draft bears the title 'The Natural Process'; begins 'McDonagh had come to Hanna's Bookshop on the quays to look at a single phrase in a book there that had fascinated him for months.'

Typescript draft of 'A Note on the Stories' for My Love My Umbrella the Opera; begins 'These three stories were all written as love stories, and can even be described as versions of the same story.'

Typescript draft of 'A Note on the Stories' for My Love My Umbrella '; begins 'Set down several years apart, "My Love, My Umbrella", "Sierra Leone" and "Gold Watch" were all written as love stories, and may be seen as even [sic?] changing versions of the same story.' Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of a non-fiction piece on Latin American literature, begins 'Everyone knows, or should know, that the novel is a form suitable to narration in a middle-class setting in order to represent a vision of reality.' Contains handwritten amendments.

Typescript draft of a non-fiction piece beginning 'All through the seeming silence of my childhood - for it seemed silent only to me - bells rang.' Relates primarily to schooling.

Typescript draft of a non-fiction piece beginning 'All through the seeming silence of my childhood - for it seemed silent only to me - bells rang.' Relates primarily to schooling.

Typescript draft of a film treatment of 'Iceland Fisherman' beginning 'I feel a clear and more realistic background has to be invented for Gaud and her father.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-15.