Notes, handwritten and typed drafts with annotations, and the final copies of the essay 'The Burren Uplands - Crossing the Pass'.

Letter from Eoghan Ó hAnluain to Tim Robinson inviting him to speak at the 1992 Merriman Summer School on his experience of the Irish language. Copy reply from Robinson accepting the invitation. Several handwritten and typed iterations of the talk entitled 'Listening to the Landscape'. The talk focuses on placenames on the Aran Islands, and gives Robinson's personal perspective on the Irish language.

Two typed copies of a book review written by Tim Robinson for the Irish Times, commenting on 'The Burren: a companion to the wildflowers of an Irish limestone wilderness' by E Charles Nelson, and 'The Natural History of the Burren' by Gordon D'Arcy.

Two typed articles for The Times, 'The Burren' and 'The Aran Islands' describing both landscapes for a new audience. Two pages of handwritten notes with the fax number and editor's name for submission.

File of material relating to the Merriman summer and winter schools (1994-1997). Brochures, itineraries, poems and papers all included. A note on Folded Landscapes paper 'Some Suggestions for Scoil Gheimhridh Mherriman 1997, Contaí Mhaigh Eo', on Archaeology, folk songs, placenames, gaeltacht and historical.

Two typed copies of a talk entitled 'The ABC of Mapping', given by Robinson at the Researching the Burren conference held in Ballyvaughan in February 1999. In the talk, Robinson reflects on when he first mapped the Burren in 1976, describing his methodology, and reading extracts from his diary at the time. He outlines contrasts between 'the two dates upon which the Burren year hinges' and farming practice in Connemara. Of the placenames he says 'placename studies in Ireland are a rescue-archaeology of a shallowly buried sacred landscape'.

Two newspaper clippings of articles written by Eileen Battersby for the Irish Times reporting on the conference and quoting Tim Robinson. The controversy over the proposed interpretive centre at Mullach Mór is referenced in this file. (See P120/3/2/5/2 for more about the campaign to oppose the centre).

Letter from Diarmuid Ó Giolláin to Tim Robinson inviting him to speak at the 2003 Merriman Summer School on the subject 'Recording Ireland'. Follow up correspondence giving a list of suitable accommodation in the area. Several handwritten and typed iterations of the talk entitled 'The Seanchaí and the Database'. The talk discusses the centrality of placenames in dinnseanchas / the lore of topography. Two copies of the Summer School's programme for 2003, and Robinson's name badge.

Two typed copies of a talk entitled 'Writing up Connemara' reflecting on the geography of Connemara and its reflection of the region's nationalist history.

A programme for the conference, held between 6-8 February 2009. In the programme, Robinson's talk is entitled 'Landscape, Memory and Amnesia'.

Drafts, correspondence and publication details relating to the pamphlet 'Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara'. Earlier drafts were entitled 'Towards a Map of South Connemara'. The pamphlet was published by The Lilliput Press in 1981, and re-published in 1984.

Six drafts of:

'Towards a Map of South Connemara

1. The Tangled Tightrope
2. Walking out to the Islands'

All drafts have the same date of 16 Jan 1981, but the evolution of the writing can be traced from the first, handwritten draft, through each of the subsequent typed versions.