File containing notes and correspondence relating to the meaning and use of certain words in Gaelic. There are several letters from An Doctuir Conchubhair Mac Guirdir, Clar Cloinne Muiris, Co. Maigheo, relating to medical terms in Irish. There are also notes on variations on words from various parts of the country [in Irish and English].
Literary manuscripts
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Handwritten draft of part of "Handbook of Modern Irish" by S.P. Mac Énrí, containing additions and amendments to the text.
Folder 1: Letter from Marie Heaney, Commissioning Editor of 'Town House and Country House', inviting Robinson to write an essay on a topic that has given him spiritual sustenance for a book called 'Sources' in aid of Focus Ireland. Robinson's submission is included - handwritten and typed, on the sequence of prime numbers.
Folder 2: Correspondence with Dr John Cosgrave from the Department of Mathematics at St Patrick's College in Drumcondra who discovered a Prime Number with 2,000 digits. Folding Landscapes published 'A Prime for the Millennium', and the file discusses the publication, their mutual love of mathematics, press cuttings about the project, and a letter from John Banville declining to launch the book on the grounds of his fluency in mathematics.
Folder 1: Fax from David Webb to Anthony Farrell of Lilliput Press with a review of John Moriarty's 'Turtle was gone a long time' (1991. Quite faint);
Poems - 'Kathodos'; 'Graveyard Rose: Rose Window'; 'Voluspa', 'Graveyard Rose: Rose Window', 'In Buddha's Footsteps', 'Libido', 'Eros Funeraire', 'Conn Céad Chathach', 'Kathodos'; Photocopy of handwritten piece by John Moriarty about 'Voluspa';
Lists of references, questions and answers, and photocopied book reviews.
Folder 2: Brochure from the Honorary Degree Conferring Ceremony at NUIG in 2006 where John Moriarty was awarded a degree.
Christmas card to Tim and Máiréad from John (2000).
Typed pieces by John Moriarty, 'Educating Christianity'; 'A Bhagavad Gita'; letter from Moriarty to Tim (2004) enclosing a modified version of 'Siderius Nuncius'; Handwritten piece relating to 'Dreamtime'; 'Labour Pains'; 'A Second Symposium'; 'Challenge', 'Exodus'; 'Mona, our Moses'; 'Europe's Year One Reed'; 'The Last Eureka'; 'Vox Hibernorum'; untitled piece; 'The name of my harpoon is Ahimsa'.
Handwritten letter from John Moriarty to Tim and Máighréad [sic] (27 May 1998) in the aftermath of the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement referendum. Encloses an 'Aisling' that he wrote.
Folder 3: Brochure for 'Slí na Fírinne, A Christian Monastic Hedge School';
Handwritten notes for 'Remembering John Moriarty'; Typed piece given by Maria Hughes at the 'Remembering John Moriarty evening';
Obituaries for Moriarty from the Irish Times and the Guardian (2007);
Typed talk given by John Moriarty in 2004 'Deinanthropus A New First Stasimon';
Writings by John Moriarty: 'Our Song of Ascent into Ireland'; 'Changed Utterly'; 'Dolmen Love'; 'Second Thoughts'; 'Urbi et Orbi'; ''Antigone is gone, Long live Antigone'; 'Voyage to where we are'.
Typed piece 'Serious Sounds'.
Typed manuscript, 'Year One Reed' by John Moriarty 1998. Copies with minor edits of some of the pages, paperclipped at the end. Page 353 and 354 have 2 copies of each with minor edits.
A typed draft of 'Ailiu Iath n-hErend;
Tim Robinson's handwritten notes;
Poem 'I will rise with the hawk...';
Laminated poster 'Remembering John Moriarty'.
Typed manuscripts shared with Tim Robinson: 'Wolf-Time'; 'Ephphatha. The Liturgy of Opening our Eyes'; Typed manuscript of 'Slí na Fírinne', undated; 'Siderius Nuncius'; 'Screech' - a talk given by John Moriarty on Clare Island and Inisheer.
Typed manuscript of 'Slí na Fírinne'.
Supplement celebrating Seamus Heaney's 70th birthday;
Printed email from Tim Robinson to the editor of the Irish Times responding to a review of Moriarty's 'Nostos' that he objected to on the grounds of its personal nature; printed email from Anthony Farrell at Lilliput to Tim enclosing his own response to the review (2001);
Talk for the launch of 'What the Curlew Said', for Clifden Arts Week 2007;
'Downwind from Buffalo, Downwind from the new Anthropology'; 'Ollamh Fodhla', and 'Fintan MacBochra'.
Press cuttings mostly from the Irish Times relating to John Moriarty.
Folders 2&3 Typed manuscript of 'Nostos a Supplement' and an addendum to 'Nostos', sent to the Robinsons in 2006.
Manuscript proofs of 'Night Journey to Buddh Gaia' by John Moriarty, left with the Robinsons in September 2006.