The Big Day Out. Black and white photographs taken during the outdoor concert event, the Big Day Out, as part of the Galway Arts Festival. Acts at the Big Day Out include Radiohead, The Bluetones, Neneh Cherry, the Cardigans and the Divine Comedy. Images feature shots of the large crowd that attended the outdoor event. Images are taken facing the stage directly, from the side and also one image from the stage area facing the crowd. Images are portrait and landscape. Also included are professional promotional portrait images of Neil Hannon, singer with the Divine Comedy. Photographer of this image is named as Kevin Westenburg. All images measure 203mm X 254mm and include a white border.
This relates to Thomas Kilroy's novel "The big chapel", published by Faber and Faber in 1971. There are a succession of drafts, correspondence with the agent, with Faber, and with Liberties Press (reprint 2009). There are drafts for a television adaptation (not realised) and for a radio play (RTE 2003). Further, there are press reviews of book and radio play.
The Big Beat Weekend. Printed publicity poster detailing the dates, venues and performers at the Big Beat music event as part of the Galway Arts Festival. Performers include The Cassius Mix, Darren Emerson, Green Velvet, Presence, Johnny Moy, The Roots, Happy Mondays, Bass Odyssey, David Gray, Afro Celt Sound System and Paddy Casey. Poster measures 297mm X 415mm. 1 item
'The Beloved Mystic', a lecture by Dr Monk Gibbon and The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore staged by the Abbey Theatre at the Queen's Theatre pending rebuilding and enlargement of the Abbey.
File includes research material and notes written by Etienne Rynne "The Bell of St. Patrick" and "St. Patrick's Possessions". Also includes black and white photographs of the bell and the bell shrine of St. Patrick, from the National Museum of Ireland.
Article, 'The Catholic Belgian Farmers' Association (De Belgische Boerenbond)', by Dom Bede Lebbe, St. Columba's Priory, Glenstal, County Limerick. This was a rewritten version of a paper given at the Muintir na Tíre Rural Week, Galway, August 1939, and was later published in an edited form for the November-December 1941 issue of the Redemptorist Record magazine. The paper has been typed on the backs of old letters sent to Dom Lebbe.
File of black and white and also colour photographs, with contact sheets of multiple images and also negatives of images taken during rehearsal and production of the play. Includes a separate photograph of Garry and Jerome Hynes, Maelíosa and Orfhlaith Stafford and Paul and Jane Brennan, with caption of "Three Sets of Brothers and Sisters in Druid, Summer 1984".
CD edition of audiobook reading of "The Beggar's Opera" written by John Gay. the recording is based on new edition, edited and arranged from 18th Century sources by Jeremy Barlow, published by Oxford University Press, 1990. Directed by Barlow. Recorded on 21-25 Apr 1991, London.