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

Typescript draft 'Hearts of Oak and Bellies of Brass' beginning ' "If Jocko comes today I'll warm his arse for this once," Murphy laughed fiercely; the hair on the powerful arms that held the sledge was smeared to the skin with a paste of dust and oil.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-10, pagination amended by hand to 28-37.

"Typescript 'draft foreword' by [Labhrás Breathnach] with handwritten corrections [by Proinsias Mac an Bheatha] for a biography of Count Plunkett; thanking Mac an Bheatha for his assistance. (pertains to Breatnach's ""An Pluincéadach"", Castlebar 1971.)"

"Typescript draft for motto [for ""Jemmy Hope""]; quotation from [Hope's ""Memoir""] on the condition of the labouring class being the real issue between the rulers and the people [in Irish]."

"Typescript draft for front matter of I dtreo na gréine and for parts of the essay ""Inniu"" by Proinsias Mac an Bheatha - corresponding closely to pp.1-42 of the printed item with last two pages not published [in Irish]."

Typescript draft for a film treatment beginning 'Most of the film can be set in the area around Renvyle and Galway.' Paginated pp 1-8.

Typescript draft entitled "final version- rehearsal" by Thomas Kilroy of his radio play In the Garden of the Asylum , with a page listing characters and setting the scene. With some handwritten insertions over the first ten pages. (This is listed "final" but proves to predate the next draft, which follows up on passages marked out for rewriting here.) [Paginated 1-50.]

Typescript draft dramatisation of ' Faith, Hope and Charity ' beginning 'Cunningham and Murphy are digging a trench in a city centre or airport.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-19.

Typescript draft 'Christmas' beginning 'The thaw overhead in the bare branches had stopped.' Identical to P71/325 apart from the opening page which doesn't bear a title or John McGahern's address. The reverse side of most of the pages contains a handwritten re-draft of the story told in the first person. Paginated pp 1-15.

Typescript draft by Thomas Kilroy of the second Act of his play My Scandalous Life, missing first eight pages. Near-identical to second Act of preceding draft P103/ 352, but mostly without handwritten corrections (and different spacing resulting in different page count). Running from a point when he recalls Oscar Wilde telling him of Christ appearing to him in the prison cell (c.p.29 of Gallery Press version), to end of that Act. [Paginated 9-21.]