"Envelope containing typescript and handwritten notes on a ""proto-version"" of ""The Frogs"", along with a synopsis of the final version."

"Letter from Paula Harrison, Public Relations Secretary Irish life Assurance Company, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, returning three copies of ""The Frogs"" which he entered for a competition, and encloses the comments of the readers on his play."

Signed statement of Síghle Baireád relating to what she knows about the foundation of Scoil Éanna, and contradicting what she claims are inaccuracies in Hedley's book.

"Draft of a letter from Síghle Bairéad to [Margaret Pearse], requesting information on the friendship between their fathers. She asks ""where did Pearse mention his debt to my father?"" She complains that Miss Pearse does not acknowledge the help the family got from their friends."

Letter from [Fionan], Barry's Hotel, Dublin, to Síle Bairéad, stating that his only knowledge of her father was through his collecting money for Connradh. He states that her father was important to the founding of the state and was very efficient in his job [in Irish].

Four folders of early Tim Robinson writing, when he was writing under the name Timothy Drever. 'The Festival of Creation' was originally conceived as a novel when he first worked on it in the 1960s. It became truncated into the first short story in the 2002 book 'Tales and Imaginings'.

Folder 1: Handwritten notes sketching out the novel.

Folder 2: Handwritten notes originally captioned 'Scraps from Novel 1', with doodles and number puzzles interspersed.

Folder 3: Drafts (one handwritten, two typed from 'The Festival of Creation' of 'Now and Later'. Drafts (one handwritten, two typed) of 'The Identicals', which later became 'Secret Meeting'.

Folder 4: Typed draft of 'Now and Later'.

Manuscript notebooks written by Annie Ryan during the development and rehearsal of The Fall of the Second Republic.
Notebook 1 (Jan 2020) has note on inside cover "The Fall of the Second Republic - Rehearsal Notebook". Includes detailed rehearsal notes, schedules, and comments by Annie Ryan during rehearsal of the play.

Notebook 2 has note on inside cover of "The Fall of the Second Republic - Pre-Production". Written by Annie Ryan and includes detailed early production ideas, scene by scene breakdown with concepts, themes and ideas, questions, workshop notes, drawings and sketches of set design etc.

File of MS and TS records relating to the production of "The Factory Girls" by Frank McGuinness. File includes document headed "Earnings from Factory Girls at Riverside" with details of agreed fees and of transport, flights and subsistence costs; "Accounting for Monies at Riverside; Bank of Ireland 'Advice of Payment' slip, from Riverside Trust Ltd to Druid; Contract of agreement between Druid Theatre and Riverside Studio, London (16 May 1988); Correspondence re. arrangements and invite list for production of "The Factory Girls" at the Riverside Studio as part of "A Sense of Ireland '88"; Agreement and financial information between Jerome Hynes, Druid Theatre and Rosalind Scanlon, 'A Sense of Ireland', London. Manuscript notes and breakdown of costs and expenses for Irish tour of "The Factory Girls"; information on costs of stage and setting and make-up; Draft MS report to the Arts Council on "The Factory Girls" tour (item 14); Time sheets of cast members (item 15); TS letter with MS draft notes from Jerome Hynes of Druid to Phelim Donlon of the Arts Council, Dublin, detailing an application for tour funding for "The Factory Girls" (item 16); and also wages information. Includes manuscript extract of the play. Also includes a series of time sheets for cast member rehearsal sessions.

Production file for "The Crystal Spider / The Man With Two Kisses", Pan Pan Theatre Company at the Players New Theatre, Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin. This production was scheduled as "The Crystal Spider" by Madame Rothschild being a lunchtime production (1.15pm) and "The Man With Two Kisses" performed in the evening (8.15pm). File includes printed handbill with information on the production and image of a medical syringe; a press release about the production, "What you will find at a performance of Pan Pan Theatre may surprise you as much as what you will not find ...." and sets out the goals of Pan Pan as being to explore sign language, promote deaf culture, and develop new theatrical expression."; Pan Pan is described as being Ireland's first fully professional ensemble of Hearing and Deaf Actors"; File also includes large outside printed poster for the production; technical specification list for the production and theatre space; a manuscript lost of scene schedule and titles within the plays; unused headed paper with the Pan Pan logo and details, with the slogan of "People and Noise".
File also includes a drawing of technical spec/lighting design for "The Man With Two Kisses" by Aedin Cosgrove.