Letters from Joe Kennedy, journalist and friend of John McGahern.

Manuscript letters from poet Brendan Kennelly, (Trinity College Dublin headed paper) to John McGahern, following up with comments following a reading by McGahern at Trinity College Dublin (1978). Letter, 1985, thanking McGahern for a copy of "High Ground" nd adding comments on the book.

File of letters from academic and critic Declan Kiberd to John McGahern, discussing a range of topics, including John's books and writing, an invitation to be Writer in Residence at University College Dublin within Kiberd's department, readings at the Yeats Annual Summer School (which Kiberd directed at the time), and wider discussions around Irish writing and literature.

Letters from playwright Thomas (Tom) Kilroy to John McGahern. Letters include comments from Kilroy on McGahern's play, "The Power of Darkness" and that Field Day should develop the play; Comments on his own play, "Double Cross" and on Field Day Theatre Company; trips to Ballinrobe Race; arrangements to meet up with the McGaherns; Comments about Aosdána; early retirement from University College Galway; comments on Dublin theatre and audiences in early 1990s; Garry Hynes at the Abbey Theatre; comments on the visit of President Ronald Reagan to Ireland; updates on Kilroy's plays at the Royal Court, London; visiting the Friels; book prizes; and other comments on Irish writing and culture. Also includes page from unnamed magazine, with photos and coverage of Kilroy and his novel, The Big Chapel.

File of manuscript letters from Frances Kiernan, editor at the New Yorker magazine, discussing stories submitted to or considered by/published by the magazine and written by McGahern, including Gold Watch, The Rockingham Shoot, An Oldfashioned Story, The Natural Process, Sierra Leone, The Big Stone House, Without Ceremony, and other stories. Also personal conversations on family news, readings, events, and visits to New York and other works/novels by McGahern.

Letters from Sonny Mehta at Knopf Publishers, New York, with details and publication updates on US editions of McGahern's books, including "By the Lake" (Memoir). One letter notes that the Queen Mother (UK) rejected an appeal to use an unnamed painting on the book jacket. Emails of reply from John McGahern included.

File of letters from Dorothea Ormond / Bernadette and Patrick O'Malley, based in Cleggan, Co. Galway, friends of the McGaherns, discussing local and family news and updates; thanks John for his play.

File with two letters, one from Tom McGurk, RTÉ broadcaster, making contact since he and his wife Miriam O'Callaghan, had with McGahern in 1982, updating on personal family news and asking id McGahern had thought of a film treatment for The Leavetaking.
Second letter is from RTÉ broadcaster Miriam O'Callaghan, writing following her watching of the "Arts Lives" documentary on RTÉ on McGahern. She talks in detail in response to McGahern's writing and life, calling him "truly one of life's special people".

File of three letters from Bridgid McGahern O'Brien to Sean (John) and Madeline McGahern, with family news and updates.

File of manuscript letters from Rosaleen McGahern to her brother John McGahern, and Madeline McGahern. The letters are personal is nature, relaying family and personal news and updates. The earliest letter of March 1961 is written from Leyton, London, and with plans on a visit by John and his sisters to meet in London, while updating that their father will not travel. LAter letters through the 1980s and 1990s update on the children of each sibling's households, arranging visits, family news and related updates. Occasionally John's writing and literary figures are mentioned.