File containing preparatory notes relating to "Carolan", mainly layout and early notes on character and plot line.
Manuscript
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File containing draft bibliography, notes, music and some correspondence, mainly with the Augandas Historical Society and An Comhar Dramaíochta in relation to his "Carolan" project.
File containing early handwritten draft of "Carolan".
Press cuttings announcing awards granted by the Arts Council to a number of writers including Eoghan Ó Tuairisc to support his research for a work on Carolan.
Copy of review of Carolan at An Damer in "The Evening Press", by Con Houlihan.
Letter from Luce Nic Coldea, Carraig Dubh, Co. Atha Cliath, to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc saying that she would be unable to provide music for him in Wexford as she is busy, and gives him the name of someone else.
Letters from Calib and Sheila Crowell, New Jersey, to Eugene and Rita, discussing things Irish and their families. They also send on keyboard pieces that they have acquired relating to Carolan tunes (5 Sept 1978). Also tells Eugene of a chat he had with Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains in relation to Carolan (28 Dec 1978). Also letter forwarding books, including one on Robert Jeffers "he translated the Medea that is usually performed in America, with Judith Anderson, and the strange, impersonal bleakness combined with the fury that inhabits that play is very similar to much of his own work" (14 Dec 1978).
Copy of review of "Carolan" by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc staged at An Damer. The review is by P F Byrne of "The Evening Herald".
Letter from Elaine Gowan, Kilkenny to Eoghan Ó Tuairisc saying that she was in China when his letter came, and that she would be delighted to be musical director of the interludes in "Carolan", and asks for the poems he would like musical settings to.
Early handwritten drafts of a number of scenes from "Carolan", containing amendments [in Irish].