Typed drafts of the following chapters, with some handwritten annotations. The original order of these chapters has been maintained. An early version of the table of contents, featuring the book's original intended structure, followed by typed drafts of: 'Fortune and Misfortune', 'Sailing on a Stone', 'Looking into other Lives', 'Conversations between Limestone and Granite', 'Yet two more Bays', 'The Drowned Woman', 'The Feast of Sts Peter and Paul', 'The Minister's Sand', 'The Generations', 'Destruction and Reconstruction', 'Point of Arrival', 'The Bay of Doubt', 'The Field of the Cloak', 'Cill Éinne', 'Aircín', two versions of 'Cromwell's Walls', 'Aer Arann', 'Bones in the Sand', two additional versions of 'Destruction and Reconstruction'.
Manuscript
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Handwritten references.
Handwritten title page 'Itinerary II North', followed by typescript draft of this part of the book. Contains handwritten annotations correcting spellings and changing words, draft pagination, and fragments of pages that have been cut up, and pasted within other pages.
Photocopied handwritten title page (from P120/3/1/2/8), with 'Itinerary' crossed out, and 'Pilgrimage' written in its place. Typescript draft of 'Pilgrimage II North'. This draft has been photocopied from P120/3/1/2/8, to show loosely attached cut up fragments in their new intended locations.
Typed drafts of each of the chapters in Part 1 of 'A Little Gaelic Kingdom', with 'L' written next to the version in the header. This is to represent that Robinson has incorporated the edits suggested by Liam Mac an Iomaire.
Title page, with 'Itinerary' crossed out, and 'Pilgrimage I South' written in its place. A handwritten table of contents that differs from previous drafts and splits 'Stones of Aran' into 'Itinerary' which covers South, the Excursion and North, and 'Labyrinth', to cover the East, Home and West.
Typescript manuscript of Part 1 'South'. Contains handwritten annotations correcting spellings and changing words, draft pagination, and fragments of pages that have been cut up, and inserted within other pages, an analogue cut and paste exercise.
Manuscript memoir, written in A4 refill books, with loose-leaf pages inserted, by Genevieve Lyons, comprising her written accounts of her life and career, from her early childhood and beginnings in Dublin and through her acting career of the 1950s onwards, with personal anecdotes and writings on Dublin culture, theatre, friends, family and relationships.
Draft of letter from Whitney and Moore, Solicitors, 46 Kildare St., Dublin, to Dermot O'Conor Donelan. They state that Mr. Shaw will be unable to see him on Saturday. They also state that although Counsel may express doubts in relation to the will and codicils, he has to assume that they shall be proved. He states that Mr Shaw believes that Elizabeth's shares are now divided between the representatives of Belinda and William. Before the shares are passed on, however, Dermot should state what moneys were paid to them or their representatives which should then be taken out of the shares [very fragile, hydrolysis].
Draft of letter from Eoghan Ó Tuairisc to the editor of [Feasta] denying Breandán Ó hEithir's suggestion that he had any part in R.E.K. [Rita Kelly's] exposé of his book [in Irish].
Corrected draft of 'Mementos of Mortality', excluding photographs. Spellings errors and grammar corrected in ink. Some pieces of text have been cut and pasted in to the manuscript, adding new wording. Three copies of a hand-drawn Location Map are included.
Close to the final draft of 'Stones of Aran: Labyrinth'.
Some minor edits have been handwritten in.