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"Handwritten rough draft of song from Mrs. Hayes, ""Spealadoir maith sara me nall as a greig""."

Note paper containing part of a handwritten list of speaking points detached from its original documents. Includes statements such as 'How can we expect a government to help people who will not help themselves' and 'Let us unite in our common interests.'

Speaking note for the acceptance of an award for 'Memoir' written on the back of a card from the Savoy Hotel, London. In the note John McGahern thanks his editors, his family and 'all those people as well as the readers who have made the book their own.'

Submission on “The Land Use and transportation authority for the greater Dublin area” to the Department of the Environment and Local Government, reports on spatial planning from government departments and the planning committee. Includes photographs from a conference.

Translation of Robinson's 'Space, Time, Connemara' in to Irish - 'Spás, Am, Conamara', translation by Liam Mac an Iomaire.

Some notes, and a photocopy of an explanatory letter by Tim to Liam (9 Oct 1993)

File relates to an exhibition, "Armada 1588 - 1988" developed at the National Maritime Museum, London and the Ulster Museum, Belfast and marking four hundred years of the Armada and Ireland. Etienne Rynne provided an article relating to the Armada and Irish legacy and regarding the various Armada shipwrecks off the coast of Galway. Manuscript notes by Rynne on typescript drafts of the article note that Rynne the article to various local newspapers in the West of Ireland. Correspondence between Rynne and Laurence Finnegan, Keeper of antiquities, Ulster Museum regarding Rynne hosting the exhibition at University College Galway. (Aug 1987) and other letters discussing the content of and scheduling of the exhibition. File includes assorted flyers, booklets and ephemera from the exhibition with articles and information on the content of the exhibition.
File 2 includes manuscript research notes by Etienne Rynne, as well as index cards of notes, regarding the history and legacy of the Armada and Ireland and Galway; press cuttings of stories regarding the Armada in Ireland, including issue of "Reality: A Redemptorist Publication" (Mar 1988).

Materials pertaining to an archaeological excavation at the Spanish Arch, Galway, 1988. Includes:
-Black-and-white photograph of the excavation site (21.5 x 14.7 cm);
-Large diagram of the excavations showing medieval features uncovered including a curtain wall and a cobble roadway (49 x 70.5 cm);
-Large diagram showing areas of trial excavations and sample cross-section showing various layers of stone fill over the centuries (49 x 70.5 cm);
-Large diagram showing a length of the south curtain wall uncovered, including walls of a 19th century house, turrets, and a wall repaired in 1643 (49 x 70.5 cm).

File of black and white images of Garry Hynes, Mick Lally, Marie Mullen, Mairead Noone and Pat Connaughton, pictured at the Spanish Arch and Claddagh area of Galway City.

File of newspapers from Michael Rynne's tenure spent in Spain as Irish Ambassador. Includes coverage of Rynne's presentation of credentials to Generalissimo Franco and also Irish newspaper coverage of Rynne's appointment as Irish Ambassador to Spain.