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Typescript "first draft screenplay" by Thomas Kilroy entitled The Turning of the Key , based on a story by Ciarin Scott. Originally sent in four instalments; containing a proposed ending (p.49f.). (Paginated 1-101, with p.51A, missing 62-83.)

Typescript "first draft" by Thomas Kilroy of his play The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre . This version opens with the two girls, "Marie Therese" and "Jo". [Paginated 1-112.]

Typescript essay by Richard Pine entitled "Rough Edges- Commitment in Contemporary Irish Drama". With holograph dedication to Thomas Kilroy.

Typescript essay by [Patrick Sheeran, Nina Fitzpatrick] entitled "Potatoes, Popes and Plays", regarding contemporary Irish dramatists and sectarianism in Northern Ireland. [Authors tentatively suggested on note by Thomas Kilroy.]

Typescript essay by [ ] entitled "L'espace dans Talbot's box", with the handwritten note "Dubost essay?". beginning "Espace du texte, espace de jeu, l'attention particulière portée à la mise en scène..." [Identical with a chapter of that title in Thierry Dubost's Le théatre de Thomas Kilroy (Caen 2001) 51-65.]

Typescript essay (8 pp) by Thomas Kilroy entitled "The Wildean Triangle" and marked as a Thomas Davis Lecture; with a copy. It describes the creative process of writing The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde , from it being commissioned by the Abbey Theatre, its first realisation as an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray , to Kilroy's reading which informed the eventual play. [This was printed for sending by telefax to Seamus Hosey. An essay of this title was published in a German anthology in 2001.]

Typescript "early draft" of the first part of Thomas Kilroy's play Double Cross, missing some pages at the end. A few handwritten corrections and commentary. [Paginated 1-50.]

Typescript early draft by Thomas Kilroy, for his adaptation of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author; missing list of characters and first page, and stopping short of the end by a few pages (p.70 of Gallery Press edition). Early version of the beginning. (Listing the literary agent, Casarotto Ramsay Ltd., London.) [Paginated 2-79.]

Typescript draft with handwritten amendments of a book of photographs of County Leitrim taken by Leland Duncan c.1890.

Typescript draft with amendments of the proposed lease between the Galway Theatre company and the Augustinian Fathers.