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Thomas Kilroy was member of the Board of Directors of the Field Day Theatre Company, Derry, from 9 May 1988 to 9 April 1992. During that time, Field Day produced three plays, published a volume of pamphlets, a play, and the 3-volume Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry, 1991). From Kilroy's agency with the company, there are series of correspondence; files of full-text plays and other creative work that was circulated among members for consideration; other material regarding Field Day. (Correspondence has been filed into two parts for each year, according to their usual practice of rendering accounts at the end of July.)

Published edition, reprint 1987, by Mercier Press of John B. Keane's "The Field", includes autograph on the cover page by Keane. Photocopy of book also included.

"The Field". Black and white photographs taken during rehearsal for production of the Field as part of the Galway Arts Festival. Cast members pictured are unnamed. Photographer is named as Aengus McMahon. Images range in size from 202mm X 127mm and include a white border.

This section contains the papers which relate to the ffrench family of Rahasane. A series of letters record the relationship between Robert J ffrench and his attorney Brabazon Browne concerning Robert J ffrench's legal and financial affairs. On occasion this was a rather fraught relationship due to Robert's continual financial difficulties. Other papers concern a legal case between the Hennessy family and Robert J ffrench over property, inherited from his great-uncle, Joseph Nagle, in county Cork. The involvement of the Clanmorris [Bingham] family, James Smyth, members of the Blake family and others, in Robert J ffrench's financial affairs is also documented. Most of this section is composed of letters but there are also legal papers and some accounts. It has been divided into 5 subsections, comprised of legal and other papers relating to the Hennessy case and to settlements with the Clanmorris family, letters, accounts and miscellaneous.

Printed programme from Theatreworks production of "The Fetishist" by Michel Tournier, translated by Barbara Wright, directed by Michael Caven. Produced at the Café Theatre, Alliance Francaise, Dublin as part of the Theatre Festival Fringe 1995. Also printed flyer about the production.

Four folders of early Tim Robinson writing, when he was writing under the name Timothy Drever. 'The Festival of Creation' was originally conceived as a novel when he first worked on it in the 1960s. It became truncated into the first short story in the 2002 book 'Tales and Imaginings'.

Folder 1: Handwritten notes sketching out the novel.

Folder 2: Handwritten notes originally captioned 'Scraps from Novel 1', with doodles and number puzzles interspersed.

Folder 3: Drafts (one handwritten, two typed from 'The Festival of Creation' of 'Now and Later'. Drafts (one handwritten, two typed) of 'The Identicals', which later became 'Secret Meeting'.

Folder 4: Typed draft of 'Now and Later'.

At the request of a Protestant minister Rev. William Arlow deputy secretary of the Irish Council of Churches representatives of the Republican Movement met with eight Protestant Clergymen at Smyth's Village Hotel in Feakle, County Clare. Ruairí Ó Brádaigh was among the representatives of the Republican Movement. In the event the meeting was disrupted by the Gardaí, however the contacts established helped pave the way for the 1975 ceasefire and bi-lateral truce negotiations.

File of black and white images from the Druid production of "The Fascinating Foundling" by G.B. Shaw. Includes images of cast members in costume and on set, features Marie Mullen, Maelíosa Stafford, Paul O'Neill and Ray McBride.

Programme of Abbey Theatre production of "The Far-Off Hills" by Lennox Robinson. Produced by Lennox Robinson.

Programme of Abbey Theatre production of "The Far-Off Hills" by Lennox Robinson. Produced by Lennox Robinson.