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

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.

Typescript of poem "Chirrup" by Colbert Kearney.

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

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.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, Riverstown, Cork to Eugene Watters, saying he is glad to hear from him. He is looking forward to seeing Dan Lowery. He is planning to bring out a collection of poetry and books on Brehan and Shakespeare. He was reading an awful book on Keats, going from quotation to quotation and remember what Eoghan had written on "the limited scope of the lyric". He forwards on some poetry to him to see what he thinks.

Letter from Colbert Kearney, Riverstown, Cork to Eugene Watters, saying that he now has a daughter called Sally and that he is delighted. He is hoping to be finished correcting scripts in a week and to more from Cork libraries in the search of Behan material. He comments that he is reworking what he has written, but that no publisher seems interested in the topic. Gives him news from the Department of English, they are about to have a new Professor of Old and Middle English, and that Sean Lucy and John Montague are reading poems everywhere. Asks what he thinks of Seamus Heaney "a fine minor poet, methoughts, who will do himself an injury soon by getting out of his depth. …One of the few around with genuine seriousness." He hears that Mick Lillis has a fine novel in Irish which he is refusing to publish, and wonders if that is true. He gives news of a visit by Robert Graves. He is looking forward to getting to Dublin and having a few pints with his father.