Material relating to the commissioning and publication of J M Synge's 'The Aran Islands' by Penguin Classics. Tim Robinson wrote an introduction and notes on the piece.

Manuscript material on the creation and publication of 'Stones of Aran: Labyrinth'.

Manuscript material relating to the production of 'Oileáin Árann, a companion to the map of the Aran Islands'.

Correspondence between Robinson and Paul Kerrigan on signal towers, coast-guard stations, bridges and local defence force lookouts. Following the publication of an article about the Aran Islands map in the Irish Times in Mar 1984, Kerrigan writes to Robinson inquiring about Arkin Castle on Inis Mór, a signal tower on Inis Oírr, and another at Golam Head, Lettermullan. The correspondence runs from 28 Mar-19 Jul 1984 with copies of Robinson's letters included. Some enclosures including an article by Owen Quinn 'The coastwatching service', and an article written by Kerrigan 'The Defences of Ireland 1793-1815', 27pp;

Letter in Irish from Cormac Ó Gráda, in the process of finishing a book on the economic history of Ireland in the nineteenth century. He asks Robinson for information on the Aran Islands during the Famine (21 Nov 1986). Carbon copy of Robinson's typed reply in English enclosing some notes on seanchas he has heard on the topic (undated), 2pp;

Three letters to Robinson from Timothy Collins, enclosing notes on two stories of visits to Connemara in the 1850s/1860s by the British Association, and a group of Professors Melville, Cleland and Kinahan (6 May 1993). Two subsequent letters, discussing the early steamer services to the Aran Islands and the Yorke family (4-22 Aug 1994), 4pp.

File of material relating to the proposal to build a golf course on Inishmore.

Site survey for the proposed 18 hole golf and pitch and putt course on Inis Mór, carried out by Eddie Hacket, a member of the British Association of Golf Course Architects, and sent to Eamonn O'Biathaigh, Manager of Forbairt Pobal Teo. (24 July 1989) 16pp;

Photocopy of a handwritten letter from Tim Robinson to an tUasal Pól Ó Foighil, Fine Gael Senator (4 October 1989), in which he summarises his objections to the proposal, and encloses a copy of an article he has written for the Galway Advertiser. 3pp;

Three newspaper clippings from Galway Advertiser and Connacht Tribune reporting on the proposal (21 Sep 1989-14 Nov 1989) 3pp;

Print-out of a letter from Tim Robinson to the Editor of the Connacht Tribune responding to remarks made by Senator Ó Foighil, and explaining his objections on conservation grounds to protect the rare Purple Milk Vetch, likely to have been flourishing since the Ice Age, and the ruins of an ancient field system dating back to the late Stone Age. The letter confronts some of the language used by those in favour of the proposal (19 Nov 1989) 2pp;

Typed submission and its corresponding press clipping of an article published in the Connacht Tribune (24 Nov 1989), 'Golf course plan 'harmful' to Aran', 3pp;

Handwritten letter to Robinson from Michael Muldoon to Tim commenting on the golf course proposal, and a proposed sewage scheme for Kilronan, (13 Dec 1989) 3pp.

Three reports carried out on behalf of Eamonn Beatty on groundwater movement on Inis Mór. They relate to an application for planning permission on a site at the lighthouse west of Oghil Fort.

The first report was carried out by Eugene P Daly of the Geological Survey of Ireland, and covers Geology, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Protection. It includes a geological map and chart (5 Feb 1991) 5pp;

The second report was prepared by Dr Richard Thorn, Acting Head of Department of Environmental Science at the Regional Technical College in Sligo, and was carried out after a failed planning application. It deals with the disposal of the domestic wastewaters on the site, and includes a map of the area, and a diagram of the proposed constructed percolation field. The report is undated, but was prepared following a site visit on 10 June 1991, 7pp;

The 3rd report is by Thomas P Farrell. The report is on a co-ordinate level survey carried out on 22 July 1991. It encloses 2 drawings showing points surveyed transposed on to the OS map scale, and concludes it is a low risk for water contamination. (30 Jul 1991) 4pp.

File of material relating to a proposal to establish an educational programme to do with Aran involving secondary school students.

Correspondence between James A Shortall and Tim Robinson discuss the project's merits, and Shortall has forwarded on some examples of Source Booklets on Aran that have been prepared for the programme. (18 Sep 1975-1 Dec 1975)

A press cutting from The Irish Times (8 Dec 1975) reports on a similar project carried out in Glencolumbkille.

Colour photographs of a field trip of Tim Robinson and groups of children walking through Inis Meáin. Also included are two blank postcards advertising the Inis Meáin Knitting Co. Ltd. Includes thank you cards from the children. (2006-2010).

File of material objecting to proposals to build three wind turbines on Inis Meáin.

Two copies of an essay written by Tim Robinson entitled 'Aran's Square Root', in which he explores his artistic instinct to imagine a sculptural form of the Aran landscape. He focuses on the Wormhole / Poll na bPéist, and extends his theory with a mathematical equation.