Typescript "Draft A" of Thomas Kilroy's play My Scandalous Life, in the one-act version, with handwritten corrections and annotations. Bearing note "plus Eileen". [Paginated 1-39.]
Typescript draft (94 pp) of Thomas Kilroy's adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull; and drafts of insert for Act 4. Marked "first draft", giving literary agent Margaret Ramsay's contact details. Insert both handwritten and typed (6 pp) entitled "The Game of Lotto", and designated to fit into Act 4. [Paginated 1-52, 1-18, 1-19. In the box-list, Kilroy named this as a draft for the Royal Court Theatre: since there is also a rehearsal script for the Royal Court, and no other first typescript draft, this was not placed with the other Royal Court material.]
Typescript draft (44 pp) of Thomas Kilroy's play My Scandalous Life, in the one-act version, with handwritten corrections and annotations. Enclosing two inserts (typescript and handwritten), one of which is referenced in the copy as Insert A; the other is attached at the end. [Paginated 1-43. Apart from corrections and inserts, seemingly identical with preceding draft.]
Typescript draft (27 pp) by Thomas Kilroy of his play My Scandalous Life in the one-act version. Entitled "Final draft April 2003", with handwritten corrections. Enclosing brief handwritten notes, including the sentence "Douglas begins by blaming Custance and Ross, then comes to accept Raymond as his own". [Paginated 1-27.]
Typescript "Draft 2" (113 pp) of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , in 154 scenes. Enclosing tabulated study of the themes and relationships explored in the play, ordered by scenes and listing page numbers; with copies. Also containing a hand-drawn graph showing development of the central relationships between "Val" and "Ford", "Val" and "Mary-Jo". [Draft is paginated.]
Typescript draft (131 pp) of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , with handwritten annotations and corrections, in 183 scenes. Enclosing "notes towards draft three" which follow on Paul [Donovan]'s notes of May 2007. Kilroy commenting on particular scenes and proposing corrections. [Draft is paginated.]
Typescript draft 'The White Boat' this draft bears the title 'The Old Man', begins 'The pleasure boats had long gone and the rowboats had been pulled from the river and lay keel upwards here and there in the fields along the banks when a big white boat "Morning Star" came round by the reeds into the lake and then turned upriver to the bridge and quay.' Contains handwritten amendments.
Typescript draft of Thomas Kilroy's screenplay The Colleen and the Cowboy , with handwritten annotations and corrections, title page and character list, in 169 scenes. Acknowledging the assistance of The Irish Film Board and script editors Elizabeth Garner and Paula Mulroe. (Missing p.31, paginated 1-105. Original folder was marked "towards a final draft", third page inscribed "Colleen 3 towards final".)
Typescript draft of 'Another Country: John McGahern' beginning 'The soil in Leitrim is poor, in places no more than an inch deep.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-10.
Typescript draft of 'Another Country: John McGahern' beginning 'They say that when the crow flies over Leitrim he takes his lunch along.' Contains handwritten amendments, paginated pp 1-14.