10 aerial photographs of promontory fort sites south and east of Stradbally, County Waterford, including Stradbally Cove, Gull Island, Ballyvooney Cove, Ballyvooney Fort, and Ballydowane Bay.
Files relating to the production and administration of Balor at the V Festival, Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá 96 in Colombia and at Town Hall Theatre, Galway.
File 1 includes press cuttings of event listings for the festival, printed programme of events at the festival (with image of Macnas/Balor on the cover); a printed handbook of information for members of the Macnas company for attendance in Bogota. Also letter from Mike Diskin, Manager, Town Hall Theatre, attaching contract for production of Balor at the Town Hall.
File 2 includes extensive fax and email correspondence between Macnas (Rod Goodall, Declan Gibbons) and organising staff at the Bogota Festival, namely Clarisa Ruiz. Includes breakdown of budgets and costs for the touring production, details and costs of insurance; discussing around funding applications and Government funding applications (Letter from 15 March cites "recent developments in Northern Ireland" as reasons for delay in funding decisions by the Government);signed contract agreed for production by Macnas at the Festival in Bogota (1 Jan 1996).
File 3 includes extensive fax and letter correspondence between Macnas (Rod Goodall, Declan Gibbons) and organising staff at the Bogota Festival, namely Clarisa Ruiz. Includes early discussions between Bogota and Macnas about producing a show in Colombia, through to discussing about programming, scheduling and funding. Note letter from Fanny Mikey, Festival Director, citing "one of the most difficult political crisis Colombia has experienced in recent years" (17 March 1996).
File 4 includes travel documents and correspondence regarding logistics of travel and arrangements, baggage dispute with British Airways and travel guides for Bogota city.
Balor, the final part of the Celtic Trilogy of theatre pieces, premiered in November 1995 at the newly opened Town Hall Theatre, Galway. The show retold the story of Balor, a mythical Celtic cyclops who ruled the island of Tory off the Donegal coast and who, it was prophesied, would be slain by his grandson Lú.
File of colour and black and white photographs from the Macnas production of Balor. Includes cast members in costume. Those named include Fred McClusky in the role of Balor.
Framed ink drawing "Bang Bang" [well known and loved local character from The Liberties, in Dublin] by M[ick?] O'Dea, presented to President Mary Robinson, 05/10/1993 at an exhibition by Executive Director Ciarán MacGonigal, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin. Message from MacGonigal in Irish on rear of drawing.
Ref: P143/4/18/2
Cheques and bank books relating to the bank account for "An Stoc"
File includes printed statement of accounts of Macnas, including current account.
File includes printed statement of accounts of Macnas, including current account, cheque book stubs of payments made; receipts from civic reception afforded to Peking Opera of China as part of the Galway [International] Arts Festival; audited statement of income and expenditure from the Dublin Millenium Project - "Gulliver Spectacle" (1988), and records of other financial activity of the period.