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Given the 1923 fire, it is surprising that anything has survived to this time. The collection consists of 23 items, and there is little continuity. The legal material consists of a scattering of deeds from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mainly deeds of conveyance to the Kirwans, and marriage settlements, and could in no way be seen as a comprehensive record of the family.

The estate management material dates from the 1850s to the 1890s, and consists of the account of the land agent with Denis Kirwan, later his wife and then their daughter. There are also rentals which would have been used by the land agent to record rents received. This material gives a comprehensive picture of the monies they received out of their estate in the later nineteenth century.

The final section of this collection consists of a number of disparate maps and surveys of lands from county Galway over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some refer to Athenry and the estate of the Birmingham family there, as well as a 1781 map of the property of Francis French on the shore and islands of Lough Corrib. Again there is no sense of original order, and the material does not form a coherent series of records, so they have been listed chronologically.

"This small collection of personal papers comprises documents effectively spanning 25 years in the life of Donegal and Dublin writer Seosamh Mac Grianna. All manuscript material, whether in the form of notebooks or loose leaves, contains a mixture of diary entries, ideas for writing, agendas, as well as drafts for literary pieces. The other material is not a result of any consistent collecting activity and merely offers glimpses of domestic circumstances and pursuits of Mac Grianna.

"The bulk of the papers covers a period of fifty years. All material contained in the collection illustrates Mac an Bheatha's two main private areas of interest: that in the development of the Irish language, and that in the labour and trade union movements. The papers contain large sections of press cuttings - non-archival sources described mostly at item level because a broad picture of his work and interests would not emerge were these dealt with too summarily.

The documents are largely comprised of newspaper cuttings and printed papers concerning the renumeration and retirement of professors, a row over clinical teaching at the Galway Infirmary and the establishment of the Galway Hospital in 1892, the submissions of professors to the Royal Commission on University Education 1901-1903 and the lead up to the Irish Universities Act of 1908. Also included is a collection of copies of statutes for NUI, UCC, UCG and QUB, dated 1909. The collection is comprised of approximately 100 items and has been arranged in eight sections relating to subject matter. All the documents are stamped 'A Senier'.

This collection consists of written, printed and photographic archives pertaining to the academic career, and wider historical interests, of Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy (1911-1975), historian, and professor of History at University College Galway from 1958 to 1975. Publications (academic, and in the press) offprints and press cuttings, few drafts, correspondence. General correspondence also concerning Galway heritage. Media work , public lectures and collaboration with public pageants - correspondence, drafts and final scripts. Photographs prints for use in scholarly publications and to accompany press articles, including file of aerial photographs by Conan Doyle, few private photographs. Collections of printed material in the course of research, and from gifts Drawings and sketches

Material in this file relates to Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979, including press releases, correspondence, cuttings, minutes and reports. It includes discussions by Conradh na Gaeilge members on whether to boycott the occasion because a papal blessing had been previously given to invade Ireland (Pope Adrian IV, 1155), objections to the mass being in English, and correspondence from Comhaltas Uladh who were unhappy with the position taken by Conradh na Gaeilge.

Tag / Ref: G60/23/1

File of research documents and notes, relating to the region known as the Pale. Includes copy of TS letter by Etienne Rynne published in The Irish Times in response to recent article on exhibition regarding destruction of historic sites within the Pale (1976); Other letters between Rynne and A.T. Lucas and Joseph Raftery of the National Museum, and also letters between Rynne and Dr. Beryl Moore, also discussing destruction of elements of the Pale. Assorted black and white photographic prints of unnamed rural landscape also included.

The Pajama Game by Richard Bissell by the Roscrea Operatic Society, produced by Frank Bailey.

Typed script, with handwritten annotations by Carolyn Swift of "The Other Fellow", on the life of Brendan Behan. File includes a draft film treatment script, and also a draft playscript.