Set of index cards describing the townland of Tuaim Beola [Toombeola], drawing background information from Griffith's Valuation, and the Report of Commissioners of Public Instruction in 1835, which reported that a hedge school kept by Patrick Reddington was operated from under Tuaim Beola bridge. Features described include The Scholar's Road, Tuaim Beola National School, the Presbyterian School, Ballynahich River, The Green Turn, the Methodist Mission Church, Dothulla, Cnocán Rua, The Fishery, and the Abbey. Peter Ward credited with providing some of the information.
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Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Truska, [Troscaigh]. Included are descriptions of Fó Chait, Duirling an Chúir, the Shell Middens, and a Viking Age Farmstead and burials that overlook False Bay. Marky and Mary Riley of Mannin Beg, and Martin O'Malley of Roundstone remembering news that his father told him, are credited with providing some of the local information.
Ms letter from Hannum, Executive Director of the Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, Washington D.C., discussing Boyle's upcoming teaching visit to California.
File contains articles and booklets on the history of the Tribes of Galway. Includes a MS letter to Rynne from 'James Alexander Lynch', Christchurch, New Zealand, 25 Nov 1986, discussing Lynch's Castle, Galway.
File contains documents relating to travel by Kevin Boyle to Maine, Portland, U.S.A., notes and drafts of itinerary, notes and drafts of talks for public lectures and engagements and correspondence relating to such lectures including at Franic Deak International Law Society, University of Maine at Orono, Rutgers University School of Law, New Jersey, Harvard International Law School and many others.
"Ring-binder of notes and drafts of Irish Language translations (both handwritten and typescript) relating to ""Bird Spotting"" by John Holland. With some additional notes."
Photocopied notes from an Irish Language interview with Pádraig Ó hEithir, father of Breandáin Ó hEithir. Talks about GAA, the Civil War, how he became involved in teaching on the Aran Islands, and includes many stories from his life. The interview was recorded in Ennis in 1993, and Robinson received the notes from Liam Mac an Iomaire in Jul 1994.
Typed transcript of an interview between Tim Robinson and CM[?], entitled 'Between Aran and Connemara'. The interview took place shortly after the publication of 'Labyrinth' and reflects on that process while exploring his interest in writing further about Connemara
Robinson's handwritten notes taken down after a conversation with Mary Welsh of Kilronan. (18 Sep 1978). Notes on the Spanish Armada Wreck, Captain O'Malley, and a man called Kilbride; 4pp.
Typed transcription of an audio recording of Seán Tom Ó Duiráin of Aran in 1934. The story is entitled 'An Soitheach Sí' and is about three currachmen on Aran. Transcription by Bairbre Ní Fhloinn of the Folklore Archive in UCD. Irish language.
Robinson's handwritten notes from Roderick O'Flaherty's 'Iar-Connaught', with the story of of an enchanted island called O'Brasil / Beg-Ara that appears every 7 years.