Folder 1/2 Three information pieces entitled 'Mining Awareness - Rationale for an independent environmental impact assessment' - summarises exploration programmes underway in Connacht and outlines the process. Refers to west Connacht's peaty soils and heavy rainfall as putting the local population at risk, explains environmental and legal problems, and prospecting.

Photocopy of 'Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ireland Mineral Resources' (1922). Provides memoir and map of localities of minerals of economic importance and metalliferous mines in Ireland, notes throughout.

Faint photocopy of part of a map of the geological survey of Ireland showing the distribution of peat bogs and coal fields, and with comments on the Glengowla Lead Mine.

Photocopy from Fossil and Mining Localities in Ireland; copy of the Journal of the Irish Society of Surveying Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, November 1990.

Press cutting of Michael Viney's 'The Shadow of Midas on Mweelrea' (Oct 1990); handwritten notes on these sources.

Circular issued by Save Roundstone Bog entitled 'Mining in Roundstone Bog?' inviting people to object to the Minister for the Marine. Correspondence between Department of the Marine, Ray Bourke, Éamon Ó Cuív, Leo Hallissey; Noel Kavanagh, Bórd Fáilte; Professor Emer Colleran of An Taisce.

Press cuttings from Connacht Tribune, Irish Times, Foinse (1999-2001).

Folder 2/2. Letter from David Hogan of the Gold Environmental Impact Assessment soliciting written submissions to help scope an environmental impact assessment for West Connacht, encloses objectives (1989). Two public meetings held on the matter at Letterfrack and Westport. Letter from (David Hogan) enclosing the latest information from the Geological Survey of Ireland on the prospecting underway in the West with map of the areas being surveyed.

Bound report, 'Gold Mineralization Associated with Ultramafic Shear Zones in County Mayo, Ireland', reporting on progress in a 307 sq kilometre area being surveyed in Mayo (undated).

A list of names and addresses of people to write to regarding mining in Connacht.

Press cuttings between 28 November 1987 and 22 March 1991 from Connacht Tribune, Irish Independent and Irish Times. Includes opinion piece in the Irish Times 6 May 1989 by Dr Joseph Cassidy, Archbishop of Tuam "Croagh Patrick: its wealth is not in gold".

Three drafts, handwritten and typed, of 'Connemara - a subjective triangulation', a talk given at a cartography-related conference (marked "for SUC conference, Dublin, Sep 1987").

In 1987, the European Year of the Environment, Folding Landscapes won the Irish Ford Conservation Awards. They went on to represent Ireland at the European Awards the following year, and also won that competition in Madrid.

Copies of press releases announcing Folding Landscapes as the winner of first the National (Irish) Ford Conservation Awards, and a year later, the European winner .

Photocopies of reports in the press, and two official photographs of Tim and Máiréad Robinson being presented with the award, photographed with Edwin J. Nolan (Chairman and Managing Director of Ford), An Taoiseach Charles J Haughey, and members of the Irish judging panel William Finlay, Éamon de Buitléar and Dr Maurice Craig.

Ireland's official report on European Year of the Environment (21 Mar 1987-20 Mar 1988).

A folder, 'Galway Bay Landscapes', containing the following publications: 'Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara' (pamphlet), the published maps of Árainn and the Burren, and 'Mapping South Connemara'.

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'.

Early Tim Robinson writing, when he was writing using the name Timothy Drever. Both of these stories were later published in the 2002 book 'Tales and Imaginings'.

Folder 1: Eight drafts of 'So and Springrice', some handwritten, some typed with handwritten edits.

Folder 2: Typed drafts of 'So and Springrice', and a typed story 'Telling the Tale'.

Drafts and fair copy of 'Tales and Imaginings', including draft artwork.

Correspondence from Brendan Barrington of Lilliput press enclosing edits, book proofs, and copy of Tim's letter in response.

Letter from Graham Thew enclosing a copy of the cover design.

Printed email from Michéle Duclos (in French) enquiring about 'The River'/'La Fleuve. Some questions relating to the French translation, also included here, and Tim's response. (2002-2003).

Correspondence between Geert Bisschop and Tim Robinson on the possibility of including Tim's writing in an art book of the photographs of the German artist Werner Hannappel.

A copy of the final published text is included.

Correspondence regarding the translation of 'Approaching the Glacier'' into the French language.

Folder 1: Book reviews written by Tim Robinson for various national press publications, for the following works:

Brian O'Rourke's 'Blas Meala' (1985); 'The Book of the Burren' edited by J W O'Connell and A Korff (1994); 'Maamtrasna: the murders and the mystery' by Jarlath Waldron (1992); 'John Millington Synge, a biography' by David M Kiely (1994); 'The Lie of the Land' by Paul Carter (1996); 'A Mythic Intervention, Turtle was gone a long time' by John Moriarty, (1996); a piece entitled 'For John Moriarty, on the occasion of his conferral' (2006); 'Landmarks, an exploration of great rocks', by David Craig (1996); 'Reading the Irish Landscape', Frank Mitchel and Michael Ryan (1997); Michael Viney's 'A Year's Turning' (1996); '1882-1981: Beathaisnéis a Cúig' by Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú (1997); Rosemary Carr's 'Colours from the Sky', an exhibition in Kenny's Gallery (undated); press cutting from the Irish Times, 15 February 2003, a piece about Michael Viney in celebration of his 70th birthday; Julian Campbell's 'Walter Osborne in the West of Ireland' (undated); copy of a letter sent to Antony [Farrell] commenting on the transcript of Hugh Dorrian's 'A Mournful Silence'.

Folder 2: Several copies of a printed card with a photograph of the stone alignment and winter solstice sunrise at Gleninagh, Connemara. A short explanatory sentence is also printed. The photograph and text are Tim Robinson's own.

Book reviews for the Arts section of The Irish Times, of 'The Book of Aran; the Aran Islands, Co. Galway' Eds John Waddell, J. W. O'Connell, Anne Korff (1994), and 'The Wild Places' by Robert McFarlane (2007).

Folder 1: Two items of copied correspondence from Tim and Máiréad to Brendan [Barrington] and Erica [ ] and Simon [ ]. They are submitting work of their late friend, Allan Burrows to consider for publishing, "a charming expression of the romance of the bohemian life as seen by a simple but canny North of Englander" (2002).

Three original diaries of Allan Burrows containing thoughts and drawings, and titled 'Paris, 1935', (bookmarked reference to Paul Swan), 'Lucerne, Switzerland and Belgium, 1936', and 'Impressions of the International Exhibition in Paris, 1937'.

Folder 2: Copy manuscript of 'The Pill with the Jam' by Allan Burrows.