"Letter from Colbert Kearney, Department of English, UCC, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, apologizing for missing the winterfest, and wonders what kind of gift to get them. He is correcting scripts ""chastening to see what my lectures mean to them"". Comments that if he ever visits Cork he is more than welcome to stay with him."

"Letter from Colbert Kearney, Department of English, UCC, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, apologizing for missing the winterfest, and wonders what kind of gift to get them. He is correcting scripts ""chastening to see what my lectures mean to them"". Comments that if he ever visits Cork he is more than welcome to stay with him."

Letter from Colbert Kearney, Department of English, UCC, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, saying that his mother-in-law has planned the wedding and that they are not having any friends along. He comments that he has seen his leaving cert poetry book in the shops, and gives him news of acquaintances. He gives him news of his trip to England, and comments that he can talk on whatever topic he wants in the lecture. Hopes himself and Rita are getting on well.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, Department of English, UCC, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc thanking him for his advice in dealing with his impending mother-in-law but that everything is in order. He invites himself and Rita to his wedding. He has just emerged from the triennial conference for the international Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature but that there were only one or two good lectures from Dublin at it. Sean Lucy and himself would like him to come to Cork at some stage, and his father tells him that Dan Lowery is nearly finished. Looks forward to seeing him soon.

"Letter from Colbert Kearney, Riverstown, Cork to Eugene Watters, saying that he has been trying to track down the Adult Education people to see about the lecture. He wonders if he would like to be a guest lecturer at UCC, Sean Lucy thinks it would be no problem to arrange and anything on the nineteenth century would be fine. Asks him for news on the Rialto. Sean shows him the Goldsmith Press anthology. He has been working away solidly and gives news of his rugby exploits. He has just finished ""a boring lecture"" on Shaw, and comments on his dissatisfaction with the term Anglo-Irish. He also wants to write something on Behan, he wonders if he was thinking of the neurotic when he wrote on the ""split-personality"" and the ""divided Irish mind""."

Letter from Colbert Kearney, Riverstown, Cork to Eugene Watters, saying that the lecture is not now happening for a while. Asks if he would be still interested to lecture at UCC? Comments on birds that visited his back garden yesterday.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, Riverstown, Cork to Eugene Watters,, asking if he would be interested in giving a few lectures and seminars in UCC sometime in early February. He comments that he is welcome to stay with them, but that the spare bedroom is just a store-room. He hopes to see him soon.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, Riverstown, Cork to Eugene Watters, saying that he has just listened to M Ó hUanacháin on the radio. He says that Sean Lucy had agreed to the lecture. The College will cover his expenses, commenting that the English Literature Society has become defunct because of lack of money. Also gives directions to his house.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, Riverstown, Cork to Eugene Watters, saying that he was up for the match last weekend in Dublin and saw a pub called Dan Lowery's! He gives news of his lectures and the departmental gossip. He has sent off some poetry to publishers to see what they think, and asks him to return the Shaw article when he can, as he has promised it to a student.

"Letter from Colbert Kearney, Riverstown, Cork to Eugene Watters, saying that his reading of ""Hallowe'en"" has been broken by a conference in Dublin and working on the back garden, but promises to have it to him soon with a fuller letter."