File of notebooks kept by Lelia Doolan during production of "Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey". File 1 includes two notebooks.
Notebook 1 - black cover spiral bound A5 200pp 'Supreme Classic" brand, featuring detailed manuscript notes by Doolan with timestamps written with each comment relating to the time and place in the film. Comments relate to suggestions, edits, and notes on the film.
Notebook 2, 'Oxford' brand softcover notebook, with script notes, edits, comments, and notes, with time stamps by Lelia Doolan relating to the film "Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey". This notebook includes assorted loose-leaf pages, inserted within the notebook, with manuscript notes by Doolan.
File of letters between Lelia Doolan and others regarding the production of film "Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey". Includes letter between Doolan and Rod Stoneman; Alan Maher, Sarah Dillon, Jill McGregor, Teresa McGrane, Bord Scannan na hÉireann/Irish Film Board; John Goldschmidt of Viva Films; emails and letters from Bernadette Devlin McAliskey; Screen Queensland; BFI London Film Festival; TG4; Barbara Durack, RTÉ; Sarah Ryder, RTÉ.
Programme Commissioning Contracts made between Teilifís na Gaeilge (26 June 2009), commissioning Lelia Doolan to produce "Bernadette" film.
Also copy of Grant Agreement contract between Doolan and the Broadcasting Association of Ireland for production of "Bernadette" (20 July 2009)
Financial material relating to the production of "Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey" produced by Lelia Doolan. Includes production budgets, invoices, details of costs of production, insurance, and related costs of production for the film.
File includes manuscript and typed notes on the content, script, and writing of the film "Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey", including overview and synopsis of the film, and related notes and drafts by Doolan. File includes original typed "News Sheet No. 20 - "To the Loyalist People" being a typed newsletter with extracts of comments relating to the Ulster Workers' Council Strike; annotated typescript "Notes for Lelia on the dreaded film"
Files of research material used by Lelia Doolan in writing and producing the film "Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey". Includes print outs of material from various newspapers and online archives and web sources. Includes archive photographs of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey; text of Devlin's maiden speech in UK parliament (1967), copies of newspaper articles about and of interviews with Devlin, and assorted other material relating to the life and work of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey; interview with Doolan from Playboy Magazine "A candid conversation with the fiery young Irish revolutionary"; transcripts of testimony given by Devlin about Bloody Sunday 1972 given to the [Saville Tribunal]; interview with Devlin with Ralf Sotscheck from German newspaper Die Tageszeitung (6 Apr 1999); transcript of interview with Devlin from '60 Minutes' CBS television programme, 3 Feb 1970; photocopy of pamphlet "The church and Republicanism in British Occupied Ireland" by Bernadette McAliskey, Mary Nelis, Desmond Wilson, introduction by Joseph McVeigh; "The Irish Struggle Today': Interview with Devlin Stuart Ross, 'Against the Current', Mar/Apr 1994; Play programme from "Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Tribunal", presented by the Tricycle Theatre, London, edited by Richard Norton-Taylor. and stated at the abbey Theatre, Dublin, Grand Opera House, Belfast, and Millennium Forum Theatre, Derry (2005). Print pamphlet "The Nation", No. 30, October 1988, published by the Irish American Defense Fund, New York"; Booklet from University of Cambridge Graduation Ceremony, congregation of the regent House, 21 Jul 2007;
Assorted press cuttings, reviews, and media regarding the release and reception of the film "Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey" produced by Lelia Doolan.
File of DVDs with promo version and film cuts of "Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey" produced by Lelia Doolan. Also includes VHS tape with archive material relating to Doolan used in research of the film and a BASF brand reel, 15", with audio content. Some manuscript labelling and notes on cover. Unclear what it relates to. Also Disc of images labelled "Derry 1967 - Getty".
File of brochures, booklets, and reports published by STEP - South Tyrone Empowerment Programme, run by Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
Files relating to the campaign group, Burren Activist Group, of which Lelia Doolan was a leading member, relating specifically to the Mullaghmore campaign of 1994-1995, in the Burren, Co. Clare.