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Copybook containing a handwritten draft of the opening scenes of 'The Power of Darkness' beginning ' A very large kitchen /living room at the back of the house.' Paginated pp 1 - 6. Also contains a handwritten draft of a piece beginning 'A time comes when the way we read has to change drastically or stop through it may well continue....' Paginated pp 1-13.

Copybook containing a number of drafts of 'A Ballad' , one of which has the title 'Smalltown', begins 'Three of slept in the little mustard room above the restaurant, the sloping walls covered with some light varnished boards as the ceiling.'

Copybook containing a number of handwritten draft of 'Honeyed Words, A Summer Story'' beginning 'I grew up in the living quarters of a police barracks in a village along the Boyle river, a small tributary of the Shannon, the three bars....' Also contains a review of 'The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli which was first published under the title 'A Legend After His Own Lifetime' in The Irish Times on 12 November 1994, begins 'Scott Fitzgerald has suffered the unenviable fate for a writer of his life becoming more famous in the more than fifty years since it ended than his work.' Also contains a handwritten draft of part of 'Galway, Western Ireland's Lilting Heart' beginning 'On the road from Newport we pass by strands below Mulrany before crossing the Bridge across the narrow sound on to Achill Island, the largest Island in Ireland.'

Copybook containing a number of handwritten drafts of 'Why the Booker's Such a Hard Bet' beginning 'The season of Literary prizes has come again as publishers and booksellers look to the weeks that run to Christmas.' Also contains a number of handwritten draft of part of 'The Church and Its Spire' beginning 'Some of the local priests were a match for these roaring boys and they were feared and understood but rarely liked.'; Also includes handwritten draft of a review of ' Sunday's Children ' by Ingmar Bergman, beginning ' This novel or memoir or study is set securely in the past, in the summer of 1926 at the ramshackle eccentric house Pastor Dahlberg had built high above Difnan's village.... '

Copybook containing call sheet for Over the Bridge as well as some set design sketches. The name 'P. Fowler' is written on the front cover.

Copybook containing detailed production notes for W.B. Yeats plays: The Dreaming of the Bones , The King's Threshold, Purgatory , The Only Jealousy of Emer , The Death of Cuchulain , Calvary , Resurrection , and The King of the Great Clock Tower . Also includes records of expenses, rehearsals and casting notes.

Copybook containing drafts and fragments on 'Oldfashioned'. one beginning 'After the war Colonel Sinclair found that administration didn't suit him, going into the Ministry each morning in a pinstripe from the house they'd bought in Wimbledon, and he and his wife decided that he should take early retirement.' Also contains a handwritten draft of part of 'Crossing The Line' beginning ' "You're from the west a fine dramatic part of the country but no fit place at all to live, no dept of soil.'

Copybook containing general household lists.

Copybook containing general household lists.

Copybook containing handwritten draft of 'Bank Holiday' beginning It had been unusual weather, hot for weeks, and the white morning mist above the river, making ghostly the figures crossing the metal bridge, seemed a certain promise that the good weather was going to last beyond the Bank Holiday.' Copy book also contains fragments of the same story and part of a draft of 'The Creamery Manager' beginning 'He felt little quiet. The Shareholders would write him off as a loss against profits.'