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List of additional tenants on the Belvoir estate who have applied to the Land Court for Fair rents. Sent by J Brady to John Wilson Lynch.

File of photocopies of the following articles and books:

'Máire de Buitléir: Bean athbheochana' (1993) 2pp;

'The Splendid Years: Recollections of Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh as told to Edward Kenny' (1955) 2pp;

'Agnes O'Farrelly and Aran: Some Memories' (1952) 6pp;

Three Kuno Meyer obituaries from various sources. A post-it note from Tim Collins to Robinson is attached to the cover leaf, referring to other enclosures. They are not included in the archive. 9pp;

'An Ruathar úd agus a ndeachaigh leis: Micheál Ó Maoláin', in Irish (1955) 7pp;

'Life of George Petrie' 13pp,

'Clonmacnoise, Clare, and Arran - Part I' (1853) 14pp;

'Dublin Meeting of the British Association: Ethnological Excursion to The Aran Isles' (c1857) 19pp;

Two handwritten letters to Robinson from Jim Ballantyne (23 May-29 Jun 1988), enclosing a photocopy of an article 'Islanders who Read' by John Messenger, 7pp;

Handwritten letter to Robinson from Patrick Felle (9 Mar 1989) enclosing a photocopied article 'The ABO and RH blood groups of the Aran Islanders' 9pp;

'Settlement and Population in the Aran Islands' by R A Gailey, 7pp;

'The Ethnography of the Aran Islands, County Galway' by A C Haddon and C R Browne (1892) 65pp;

'Athenry the was, Galway that is, Aran that will be: Recent Works on Aran' by Paul F Botheroyd (1980) 5pp;

'The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran: England's Safety Valve in Case of War' book chapter copied from an unknown book 3pp;

'Embodying the Nation - The West of Ireland Landscape and Irish Identity c1892-1918' by Catherin Nash (1992). Accompanied by a cover letter from Nash to Robinson and a copy of his reply (Sep-Oct 1992) 20pp;

Handwritten cover note to Robinson from [?David W?] enclosing photocopies from H Zimmer's 'Keltische Beitrage'. (12 Feb 1993). Three pages of notes translate some of Zimmer's text on the subject of St Enda. The remainder of the file contains hundeds of photocopied pages from the volume. In German language.

Copies taken from the the papers of Julius Konietzko, an ethnographic explorer who visited the Aran Islands between 1911-1914. The notes are handwritten and include drawings of archaeological artefacts. In German language.

Photocopy from 'An t-Iomaire Ruadh' le Tomás Ó Máille, 1939. Tim Robinson's handwritten notes on the piece, focusing on Placenames.

Photocopies from the Monuments Dataset of the Archaeological Survey of Co Galway. All sites are in Connemara. The metadata captured includes the site classification, designation, condition, any threats, and a description of the site. (1 folder).

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes, some with cover notes from people who sent them).

'Hunter Gatherer Strategies in the Mesolithic: The Evidence from Western Connacht' by Michael Gibbons, Jim Higgins, Myles Gibbons (2005);

'The Irish Townland System of Landscape Organisation' by Thomas McErlean (1983);

Findings on Doonloghan by Finbar McCormick (1986);

'Bronze Age to Medieval Coastal Shell Middens near Ballyconneely, Co Galway', by Finbar McCormick, Michael Gibbons, Francis Gerald McCormac and Janine Moore (1996);

'Some Observations on the sites and monuments record of County Mayo' by Michael Gibbons, Olive Alcock, Tom Condit, Mary Tunney (1991);

'An unrecorded wedge-tomb at Scrahillia, Cashel, Connemara" by Gabriel Cooney (1984) with cover note;

Draft of 'Connemara's Emerging Prehistory' by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins;

'Aspects of Connemara's Prehistoric Landscape - the archaeological and paleobotanical evidence' by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins;

Print out of the distribution of sites in Connemara and the Aran Islands, September 1987;

'A Viking Burial in County Galway' by Joseph Raftery (1960);

'Notes on some of the Antiquities of the Barony of Ballinahing, Co. Galway' by Lord Killanin, undated;

'Notes on some of the antiquities of the Barony of Moycullen, Co Galway; by Lord Killanin (undated);

'Economy and settlement in Rural Ireland' Bruce Proudfoot (undated);

'Antiquities of Co Galway - an introduction' for Galway Official Guide to City and County;

'Ambergris: a lost link between Connemara and Andalusia' Michael Gibbons and Myles Gibbons (2009);

'Understanding Irish Landscape Evolution Pollen Assemblages from Neogene and Pleistocene palaeosurfaces in Western Ireland' Pete Coxon (2001);

'Modernes Wallfahrtwesen in Westirland' by Elisabeth Walther (1980), in German;

'Stone Basins (some examples from the West of Scotland on guides to typology' by A D Lacaille (1944), with a cover letter to Tim from Noel Dunne (1988).

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes):

'The West of Ireland', Henry Coulter, (1862);

'Tour in Connemara and the Martins of Ballinahinch', Maria Edgeworth, (first published in 1950);

'Rosaleen Dhass - A Tale of the Killeries', "Aroon", (1902);

'Tales of the West of Ireland', James Berry, (1966);

'Tyrone House, Co. Galway', Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, (1976);

'Geography and the Irish Electoral System', A J Parker, (1984-5);

Griffiths Valuation for the Unions of Clifden and Mountbellew (1855);

Selected copies from O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey letters for Galway (Vol 3), (1839);

'A Statistical and agricultural survey of the County of Galway drawn up for the consideration and by the direction of the Royal Dublin Society', Hely Dutton, (1824);

'Lewis Topographical Dictionary for Moyrus', (1837);

'Slater's Directory, Ireland for Clifden', (1856);

'The Last Invasion of Ireland - When Connacht Rose', Richard Francis Hayes, (1939) - notes on Fr Miles Prendergast;

'Five letters Relating to Galway Smuggling in 1737'. Louis Cullen, (1962);

'A forgotten campaign and aspects of the heritage of South East Galway', (1986) - note about the arrest of Johnny Gibbons at Woodford;

'Connemara Refuge for Mayo Rebels of '98', Rory Lavelle, (typed piece, possibly unpublished);

'On timeless shores - journeys in Ireland', . C. Vyvyan, (1957);

'Fifty years of Irish Journalism', Andrew Dunlop, (1911) - writes of Carraroe evictions and the Maamtrasna murders;

'The Irish Crisis of 1879-80', Proceedings of the Dublin Mansion House Relief Committee 1880, (1881) - refers to Arranmore Investigation;

'An Account of the Constitution, Administration and Dissolution of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland from 1891-1923', William L Micks, (1925);

'Memories: Wise and Otherwise', Sir Henry Robinson, (1924);

The last folder contains Tim's handwritten notes from 'Whites Tour of Connemara', 'Cromwell from Old Galway', 'O'Flaherty Iar-Chonnacht', 'Hell or Connacht! The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1952-1660'. There are some tourist brochures from 1990s also in this folder, and have been left here as per original order.

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes, some with cover notes from people who sent them). These largely cover Protestant Missions but include other information too:

Substantial photocopies from 'History of the Archdiocese of Tuam' by Monsignor D'Alton, (1928), and 4 pages of Robinson's handwritten notes;

'The Bible in Ireland' by Asenath Nicholson (c. 1845);

'Fifty Years in The Irish Mission' by the Rev. Hamilton Magee (undated);

Photocopies from 'Records of the Connemara Orphan's Nursery', with some post-it notes indicating items of Robinson's interest including 'Tarbot Resistance', Glenowen for girls, kidnapping, D'Arcy rectory;

'A Short Visit to the Connemara Missions, A Letter by the Rev W C Plunkett BA', (1863);

'The Saxon in Ireland, or the Rambles of an Englishman' by J H Ashworth, (1851);

Cover note from Michael Gibbons enclosing selected photocopies from 'The Letters of Lord Chief Baron Edward Willes to the Earl of Warwick, 1757-1762', in which he writes on the Joyce family (undated);

'A Tour in Connacht', Caesar Otway (1839);

'The Irish Sketch Book and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo' by W M Thackeray, (1875);

'Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century' by Edward MacLysacht, (1969);

'Letters from Ireland' by Harriet Martineau, (1852);

'Through Connemara in a Governess Cart', (1893);

'Sketches of the Irish Highlands', by Rev A McManus (1863);

Letters from Patrick Gageby enclosing the following 3 items:

Obituary for James Keyworth, (1864);

Connemara Past and Present' by the Rev Joseph Denham Smith (1853);

Envelope of 10 photographs of Irish Church Mission banners (referenced in P Gageby's cover letter);

'Lift up a standard, the centenary story of the society for Irish Church Missions' by A E Hughes;

'The Protestant Crusade in Ireland, 1800-70', Desmond Bowen;

A photograph of the Protestant Church in Moyrus in 1910, sent to Tim from Frank Keaney;

Pages of Robinson's handwritten notes on the Protestant crusade in Ireland;

Correspondence between Tim Robinson, the Very Revd W J Grant, J F Buttimore, Raymond Rafausse, Rev Michael Molloy about a church near Ballinahinch Castle which transferred from Church of Ireland to Roman Catholic in 1959. Enclosures include extracts from the Parish history of Ballyconnely and Claddaghduff. A photocopy from the Calendar of Papal Registers 1471-1484, on Moyrus, and a copy of a church newsletter from Kilmilkin in Leenane, which gives a history of the church from Early Christian times 500 - the Penal Laws 1829 (1987-1989);

Newspaper cutting on Ethel Mannin;

Letter from Roddy (R.P.) McCaffrey of Robinson, Keefe, Devane enclosing a description of Cashel Church (1997);

'Burke's Guide to Country Houses, Vol 1 Ireland'. Short note from Patrick Farrell to Tim enclosing a photograph captioned 'Teachín na bPrayers', and a small painted sketch of the house as he remembers it, (1997).

Copy of 'Confessions of a Song Junkie' by Lillis Ó Laoire, a piece about Tory Island, accompanied by handwritten card in Irish language from Lillis. Folder also includes copies of 'An Claisceadal', 'Gan Unsa ar Bith Céille' An Fhearúlacht agus an bharántúlacht in dhá amhrán le Seosamh Ó hÉanaí', by Lillis Ó Laoire agus Seán Williams, Folder 1/4;

Photocopy from 'Ceól na n-Oileán, amhráin a chruinnigh an t-Athair Tomás Ó Ceallaigh in Oileáin Chonmara' (1931);

Photocopy 'Cláirseach na nGaedheal, an dara cuid' le Brendán Mac Ruaidhrí agus Seosamh Laoide (1902);

A songbook published by Connradh na Gaeilge Folder 2/4;

Photocopied 'Cnuasacht de Cheoltaí Uladh', put together by Seán Ó Baoighill, Réamonn Ó Frighil and Aodh Ó Duibheannaigh, (1944);

Photocopy of 'Irish Popular Songs with English Metrical Translations and Introductory Remarks and Notes' by Edward Walsh (1883);

Undated sheet with lyrics to 'Im Bím Babaró', 'Mo Ghréasaí Bróg', and 'Thíos i Lár an ghleanna' Folder 3/4;

Photocopy of 'Amhráin Chlainne Gaedheal' le Mícheál agus Tomás Ó Máille, (1905);

Photocopy of 'The Salley Ring' by Patrick Kelly, (1941) Folder 4/4.

File of off-prints and photocopies of the following articles:

'History of the Aran Islands (Inismor, Inismeadhon and Inisiar) County Galway, Eire from the 13th to the 20th centuries, drawn from contemporary sources' by Wing Commander T V O'Brien, Royal Air Force Medical Service, (July 1945) Contains transcriptions of several pedigrees relating to Aran;

'History of the Congested Districts Board' by William L Micks (published 1925);

'Aran of the Fishermen' taken from The New Island Review (published 1898);

'Aran of the Saints' by James G Barry (published 1885-6);

Extract from 'The Galway Line in Context' by Timothy Collins (1995);

'Glimpses of my life in Aran: Some experiences of a district nurse in these remote islands off the West Coast of Ireland' by B N Hedderman (1917);

Selected extracts from 'Letters containing information relative to the Antiquities of the County of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1889', John O'Donovan.

File of bibliographies on Connemara, covering Geological Survey of Ireland, Ecological Evidence for Irish Neolithic structures, Connemara in literature, lists of work held at UCG library, local history books available at Galway County Libraries, a bibliographical index of Galway authors, and various handwritten lists of books and articles to look up. (Folder 1/5).

File of photocopies of the following articles and books:

'Rural Society in Connacht, 1600-1640' by Jean M Graham, (1970);

'Clachán Settlement in Iar-Chonnacht' by Breandan S Mac Aodha, (1965);

'Settlement Patterns in the West of Ireland in the Pre-Famine Period' by Kevin Whelan, (undated);

'The Future of the Irish Rural Landscape' by Kevin Whelan with cover letter (1993);

Introduction to 'Irish Highlands' with correspondence between Tim Robinson and Kevin Whelan (1993);

'The sea-weeds of yar-Connaught, and their uses' by G H Kinahan (1869), with cover letter from Maura Scannell (1986); (Folder 2/5).

'William McCalla - a second 'panegyric' for an Irish Phycologist' by E Charles Nelson (1981);

'William McCalla (c. 1814-1849), Phycologist; his published papers of 1846'. (1980);

'Gleanings from the History of the Franciscan Monastery, Roundstone' (For Rev G Charles, P P Roundstone);

Photocopied photographs from Lissnabrucka photograph albums (Pat Reid), Feature the Monastery, Lord Dudley;

Letter from Simon Ashe to Tim Robinson relating to Inishlacken, enclosing handwritten transcribed extracts from Alex and John's Log Books of quotes about Inishlackan from 1972 to 1996, the Broughton family, and a map (1997);

'Photocopy of Darby Gannon of Inishnee, A Memoir', written from Merlin Park hospital in 1987, written for his German neighbours in Inis Ní, and given to Tim Robinson by Arndt Wigger in 1996. Talks about schooling, fishing, Washington;

A note on Marcus Clogherty of Deer Island, and a press cutting on the Sceirde proposal for wind generation, from Connacht Tribune 2001;

'The End of the World' by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson of QCG, 1945;

'The Fishery at Casla Conamara, its history and records 1684-1956';

'Life of Michael Davitt and History of the Land League'; (Folder 3/5).

Handwritten notes 'An Cheathrú Rua Cáit Ní Dhomhnaill - '84'

Print out email from Bob Quinn (circular to Aosdána members) with enclosed essay by Desmond Fennell 'On Thinking in Ireland' (2009);

Letter from Ríonach Uí Ógáin enclosing an Irish language piece she has written 'Cruach na Cara' (1984);

'Cruach MacDara off the coast of Connemara with a notice of its church, crosses, and antiquities', by Francis Joseph Bigger (1896);

Photocopied article from the Connacht Tribune 'Mac Dara Island's Unique Traditions' (1976);

Photocopied letter to Canon [Previte], enclosing an original ballad on St MacDara's Bay. (2008) (Folder 4/5).

Typed and handwritten bibliography on varied subjects (Fenians, Fossils, Gaeltacht Community, Limestone morphology, flora, and others);

'Subverting the Western Gaze: Mapping Alternative Worlds' by Barbara Bender (1995);

'Early Irish Literature' by Miles Dillon (1948);

'Medieval Religious Houses Ireland' by A Gwynn and R N Hadcock (undated);

'The Long Walk of a Queen - the representation of Ireland as a woman in Irish Literary Tradition' (undated);

'Bibliography Logainmneacha' (undated);

'Genius Fabulae: The Irish Sense of Place' with cover note from Pat Sheeran (1987);

'Town and Baile in Irish placenames' by T Jones Hughes (undated);

'Ancient Irish Law: The law of status or franchise' Eoin MacNeill (1923);

Lyrics - 'In Praise of the [ ] of Mullingar';

'A portrait of Maree', (1986);

'Clogher Record' (1983);

'The modern traveller to the early Irish Church' (undated);

'The hisperica famina: the a-text' by Michael W Herren (1974);

'Limestone morphology in Ireland' P W Williams (1970);

'Irish Raths and Cashels' Bruce Proudfoot (1970);

'The Flora of Turloughs' R L Praeger (1932);

'The Gaeltacht Community in Ireland' (undated);

'Archaeological Aspects of Woodland Ecology' ny Martin Bell and Susan Limbrey (1982);

Tim Robinson's handwritten notes from several of these articles at the end of the folder (Folder 5/5).