Drafts of various Muintir na Tíre publications including essays to mark the Golden Jubilee edited by J. Newman, The Past and the Future, I.C.R.A and questions and answers.
Manuscript
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Handwritten and typed short stories by Tim Drever. 'The Ephemeron'; 'The River'; 'Ice'; 'The Impossible Isles'; 'The Heavens Fall'; 'Visits to the Black Cliff' (1981); 'Terminal Deity'; 'The Objective Reality of Purgatory'; 'Two Reminiscences of London 1970'; 'The Absence' (1981); one untitled manuscript.
Eight iterations of 'Space, Time and Connemara', the introductory essay to 'Connemara Part 1: Introduction and Gazetteer'.
These go from handwritten, to annotated typed versions, up to the final version. One draft incorporates notes from Paul Mohr, one with notes from Mike Gibbons, and one with notes from Mick O'Connell.
File of correspondence between Robinson and Jim Donnelly, co editor of the Journal of Irish Studies. The correspondence begins with a request from Donnelly for Robinson to contribute a scholarly article for publication in their journal, and continue through various iterations of a version of 'Space, Time and Connemara'. The final correspondence is a carbon copy of a letter from Robinson regretting the aborting of the journal. (23 Oct 1987-19 Jul 1988). The article was eventually published in 'A Journal of Irish Studies', published by the Irish American Cultural Institute, and a photocopy of this is included.
Three typed drafts of Tim Robinson's introduction to 'Connemara after the Famine, Journal of a Survey of the Martin Estate 1853'. There are handwritten edits in each draft, incorporated into the subsequent draft.
Six drafts of:
'Towards a Map of South Connemara
- The Tangled Tightrope
- 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.
Draft of printed schedule issued by the Board of Public Works, relating to the drainage in the district of Turloughmore, County Galway. Accepted by the House of Commons in February 1855. (Earlier partial draft of LE10/225).
Printed copy of an Act amending the Act for the promotion of the Drainage of Lands and Improvements in Ireland.
Printed schedule issued by the Board of Public Works, relating to drainage in the district of Turloughmore, County Galway. Schedule A gives a list of proprietors, the lands, amount awarded for drainage and rate of repayment by the proprietor. Thomas O'Conor Donelan is down for the lands of Pollnamal (Belclare), Pollnamall (Killowen) and Woodquay.
Index card relating to the townland of Drimmanakill, [Droim na Cille].
Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Drimmeen, [An Droimín]. Included are descriptions of Cloch an Mhairnéalach, the Boat Harbour (and the Byrne family of Lombard Street in Dublin, who acquired the land through the Landed Estates Court. A local man believes the harbour was built by John Byrne as famine relief work), a note on the House of John Byrne located at the Boat Harbour, with an illustration of the Byrne family crest, and some biographical information about John Byrne. Also included are descriptions of Roisín (an area of deserted village), Iorras Fhlannain (the site of a drowning in 1860), a kelp store, Dúilic, Ard Mór, An Chois, Oileán Rois, and The Spectacles. Festy Conneely or Turbot, and M. King are credited as being local sources of information.