File with writings including short stories and play adaptations for television and radio serialised in magazines. File includes episode texts of the adaptation of Tolka Row originally by Maura Laverty, and of An Triail/OnTrial originally by Máiréad Ní Ghráda. Includes letters between Swift and the Laverty estate discussing publication rights; Letters between Swift and editor of Irish Women's Journal and the editor of Woman's Way magazine, discussing the publication of work by Swift based on Laverty's earlier work; also letters between Swift and producer Chloe Gibson. Also compliments Slips from the Woman's Way to Swift, with details of payments to Swift and publication information.
Notes on On Trial' for publicity purposes by Swift; texts of each part of Swift's adaptation of On Trial.
File with some assorted articles, talks, and manuscript notes by Lelia Doolan. Note on file cover read "Notes and Scribbles". Includes a note page written by Doolan headed "The True History of Leslie Woodcock - A Film for Fun", listing cast and production team and other details about the film production.
Text of address by Lelia Doolan, "Bob Quinn Retrospective" (14 Aug 1987)
Text of talk delivered by Doolan at the Royal Irish Academy, 1987, as part of conference entitled "The State of Social Sciences Research in Ireland" (26 May 1987) - the paper by Doolan is entitled 'Harmless Drudgery". File also includes speaker notes for a talk given by Doolan to Drama students at NUI Galway (University of Galway), 1 Oct 2004.
File 2 includes texts and articles by Doolan: "Two Hot Days in Belfast" (1975); "Video Activity in Belfast" (c. 1974); "Problems of a National Theatre" (For Arts Magazine, transcribed from a conversation); "Theatre and its Audience"; "Language and Culture"; "Drama in Ireland"; Dramaiocht in Eireann; "Ladislav Holy - Knowledge and Behaviour" written for the seminar 'Knowledge and Behaviour', Dept of Social Anthropology, QUB (Dec 1974).
Writings and comment from Kevin Boyle on policing, security, deaths and violence in Northern Ireland.
Typescript (incomplete) of article written by Kevin Boyle on issues of freedom of religious belief and also a copy of article written by Boyle, as Director of Essex Human Rights Centre and being an opening address at the 'ACF Belfast Conference' on building global tolerance. File also includes manuscript writings by Boyle on the topic of freedom of religious belief, freedom of expression and racism/tolerance.
Assorted pieces of writing by John McGahern including "Madness/Creativity" (offprint - La Licorne UFR Langues Littératures Poitiers); Article in the "Irish Times" by John McGahern entitled "Whatever You Say Say Nothing", a focus on 1950s Ireland.
Also photocopy of manuscript text of lecture by John McGahern on Herman Melville.
Press page from 'The Irish Press', 7 Aug 1982, and from the 'New Irish Writing' section edited by David Marcus. McGahern's story 'High Ground' was published in that edition and includes some manuscript annotation and edits by McGahern made on the newspaper page.
Edition of "Education Today", magazine of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (I.N.T.O.), Spring 1993, and with an article by John McGahern entitled "The Church and Its Spire".
Typed articles, some with manuscript edits and annotations, by Carolyn Swift, written about her television and radio work, and published in the RTÉ Guide Magazine. File includes remittance slips for payments to Swift for her articles in the RTÉ Guide. Articles include:
Getting Around in Tolka Row
Tolka Row Celebrates its 150th Birthday
The Growing Community of Tolka Row
For Use With "The Girl From Mayo"
For Use With First of 'Looking at Drama' series
The Glorious Uncertainty
The Country Boy
A Cruel Fondness
Partners in Practice
Setting Up Sallybawn
I'm Getting Out of This Kip
Is Your Play Really Necessary?
Show Business
Marie Rambert - Inspired and Trained Some of the Leading Choreographers and Dancers of Our Time
Why Not Reconsider That Paris Holiday?
Paris - Europe's Entertainment Capital
Classical Feast For Dublin Balletomanes (Note: published in Sunday Independent?)
Alicia Markova: Classical Influences on English Ballet
Is There a Playwright in the House?
The Cooney Experiment?
Texts and drafts of articles written by Kevin Boyle and others on the Anglo-Irish Agreement, including "Making the Hillsborough Agreement Acceptable" by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden; "The Anglo-Irish Agreement - Clarifying the Objective" TS draft document "The Anglo-Irish Agreement" by Boyle detailing a suggested synopsis of the Agreement, current problems and suggestions of solutions (A441/6/2 (4) ) "What People really think of the Agreement"; "The Search for a Political Solution"; "Copy on Art[icles] 2,3 of the Constitution from Kevin Boyle, Law Department, University College Galway" which focuses on conflicts with the Anglo Irish Agreement and the Irish Constitution. (3 copies)
Writing pad with handwritten research notes by Thomas Kilroy, quoting from unnamed texts about the sculptor Giacometti, and particular works by him, such as Woman with Chariot. (1942).
Writing pad with handwritten notes by Thomas Kilroy entitled "Notes towards Shape of Metal , 2002". With notes outlining scenes, and draft dialogue. Beginning with the lines "And another thing. To the day I die I'll never understand why she hates me."