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"Copybook containing notes on folklore from ""Finnegan's Wake"", mainly from the Irish into English."

Copybook containing pages of The Mistletoe Bough by Reverend W. Reynolds to be used in a private Christmas family production of the play. Many pages are loose. Also includes a copy of the programme for the production.

Copybook containing part of a handwritten draft of 'Creatures of the Earth' beginning 'Mrs. Walshe and her daughter, Eileen, closed their big house in its own grounds outside Castlebar after Surgeon Walshe's death and moved to their summer house in Achill.' Also handwritten piece on Blake's of the Hollow a pub and restaurant in Enniskillen beginning 'I've been going to Blake's of the Hollow in Enniskillen for close on twenty years. Now and I believe it to be one of the happiest and most beautiful bars in the whole of Ireland.'

Copybook containing part of a handwritten draft of 'Like All Other Men' beginning ' "I suppose we could walk out of this place and never meet again after the two years" Maguire said.' Also contains a handwritten draft of part of a work of fiction possibly 'Gold Watch' beginning 'The pretence that running into one another in the rush hour was a delight as well as a surprise had grown almost of its own accord in to the longer and tedious pretence of dinner in this expensive restaurant.' Also contains a handwritten draft of a piece of fiction possibly an early version of 'Bank Holiday beginning 'The woman had driven the four hours out of New York to spend the weekend in the small town as she had done every weekend that spring when he hadn't come into the city.'

Copybook containing parts of two handwritten drafts of 'Like All Other Men', one beginning 'I had watched Maguire's dark face and limp black hair across the refectory table for two years.'; the other beginning 'The strangest thing about the afternoon dances in the Metropole was how it established a night as complete as sleep in the middle of the day.' Also contains handwritten fragments of 'A Ballad', 'Oldfashioned' .

Copybook containing pasted pages of Nativity by Lady Gregory, to be used in a private Christmas family production of the play. Also includes a copy of the programme for the production.

Copybook containing production notes for Oedipus at Colonus , The Emperor Jones and Before Breakfast .

Copybook containing production notes for the Cuchulain Cycle to be produced during the Lyric's tour in Glasgow.

Copybook containing some production notes for The Lower Depths and another unidentified play.

Copybook containing two handwritten drafts of part of 'The Country Funeral', one of which begins 'Fonsie Ryan had his brothers breakfast watching on the table before Philly had even finished shaving, and as soon as Philly sat to the table he moved his wheelchair back to the far wall to wait for him to finish.'