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Zingaro Opera Equestre. Printed poster from the performance event by Zingaro Opera Equestre. No date/venue for the production are detailed. Poster features colour images of scenes of the show performed by Zingaro Opera Equestre. Poster measures 400mm X 600mm.

Written by Myles na gCopaleen (Flann Ó Brian) and staged at the Galway Arts Centre in association with the Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Staged in Galway at the Nuns Island Arts Centre. Includes black and white headshots of actors and cast members Macdara Ó Fátharta and Dónall Farmer. Images measure 255mm X 203mm.

Writing pad with handwritten research notes by Thomas Kilroy, quoting from unnamed texts about the sculptor Giacometti, and particular works by him, such as Woman with Chariot. (1942).

Writing pad with handwritten notes by Thomas Kilroy entitled "Notes towards Shape of Metal , 2002". With notes outlining scenes, and draft dialogue. Beginning with the lines "And another thing. To the day I die I'll never understand why she hates me."

Writing pad with handwritten notes and draft dialogue by Thomas Kilroy for his play The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde , entitled "Dorian G." Containing draft dialogue as well as notes linking classical authors and ideas to the play (and notes from a visit to the British Museum). Characters of dialogue include "The Elder Wilde", "Lord Henry", "Dorian", "Duchess". One programmatic note says "I want to write a Faustian play about Wilde with Douglas as a capricious Helen..."

Writing pad with handwritten draft dialogue by [Thomas Kilroy for his play The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde ], beginning with "Wilde" and puppets representing his two sons [not eventually in the printed play], and some dialogue by "Cyril". Further extensive dialogue [much eventually used in both parts of the printed version].

Writing pad mostly with handwritten notes and draft dialogue by Thomas Kilroy, in preparation of a play with the working title My Life Has Had Its Moments [My Scandalous Life]. Including a chronology of Douglas's life, a typescript précis of the play with a plan for two parts; sketching dialogue for the first part, between "Douglas" and a BBC radio speaker, and sketching monologue for the second part, set in Hove in 1944.

Writing pad (35 pp) with handwritten notes and draft dialogue by Thomas Kilroy for his play The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde , entitled "Constance". With some links to previous notes on Dorian Gray , stating on the first page "What is the connection between Dorian Gray and Oscar's unwillingness to escape?" Including also some historical notes, such as reference to Carson's speech [at the trial]; some draft dialogue, segments of which occur in the printed play (The Gallery Press, 1997). Enclosing some loose notes of various provenance with the first page of an essay about the "drama of ideas".

Writing pad (c. 60 pp) with handwritten draft dialogue by [Thomas Kilroy] for a play entitled Wife to Mr. Wilde [ The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde ]. Enclosing some notes with separate dialogue; on reverse of a letter from Emile J. Dumay, 14 June 1995, about the translation of Madame MacAdam's Travelling Theatre . Cover bears handwritten quotations from T.S. Eliot and from W.B. Yeats, defining a "pose".

Writing pad (c.21 pp) and some loose pages with handwritten notes and early drafts by Thomas Kilroy for his play The Shape of Metal . Including lists of the three characters (working towards their respective ages); further notes on Giacometti; attempt at an outline (in four points); otherwise extensive draft dialogue between "Nell" and "Judith" (a distinct part is paginated 1-5). Also including a page entitled "Ja[me]s Joyce in Love" with the line "he thinks he falls in love with the daughter until he meets the mother".