File with three notebooks written by Annie Ryan, director of The Seagull, staged by Corn Exchange Theatre Company and in a version of the play by Anton Chekhov.
Notebook 1 contains notes on rehearsals, scene by scene analysis and development, notes on characters, notes on the adaptation, sketches and drawings of set design etc.
Notebook 2 is labelled "Rehearsal Notebook - Sept 2016" with notes and comments from daily and weekly rehearsal schedules, with notes on direction, set, props etc.
Notebook 3, spiral bound notebook, with comments from previews and tech rehearsals, notes on characters, drawings of costumes etc. technical notes on sounds/lighting etc.

Includes pencil drawings by Joe Vaněk for costumes used in The Speckled People at the Gate Theatre.
Also pencil art drawings by Vaněk depicting child-like drawings of children and families in a conflict zone; paper print-outs of colour photographs of set model-box and images used in design research;
Drawings include pencil provisional drawing of the set; Drawing of Section Stage Right of set and stage; other stage plans and drawings of The Speckled People set and stage. A sample of costume fabric is also included.
File also includes a prop and furniture list for the play, as well as a production schedule for its duration.

Files relating to design of set and costume by Joe Vaněk for the Dublin Theatre Festival production of The Speckled People written by Hugo Hamilton. Produced at the Gate Theatre, Dublin.

Typescript draft of short novel entitled the "New Light" (earlier "Enter a Philomath"). Includes handwritten amendments and additions.

Note from Barry Whit, Navan, to [Eoghan Ó Tuairisc] enclosing something for him which he wants returned, also mentions a report of the Commissioners of Irish Education Enquiry dealing with Hedge Schools.

Handwritten notes by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc on hedge-schools, and research for his book.

Copy of book reviews including "The Story of a Hedgeschool Master" by Eugene Watters by Padraig mac Eamainn in "Inniu" [in Irish].

Copy of review of "The Story of a Hedgeschool Master" by Eugene Watters in "The Education Times".

Manuscript writing by Kevin Boyle entitled "The Summer - Proposals for Socialists" is a treatise piece on place and role of socialists in Northern Ireland politics and society. Mentions People's Democracy, industry and business in Northern Ireland, the Orange Order and other related issues and points.

Updated draft of the first section of 'The Tangled Tightrope'.