31 images on negative and contact sheets.

Photographs of Galway Youth Orchestra.

File of black and white photographs of a young John McGahern. Images include of First Holy Communion Day for McGahern's sisters (all pictured) along with McGahern's father and aunt, photographs of McGahern within various school groups, from ages of c. 10 years of age to late teenage years. Also photos of John McGahern from later life and pictured with his sisters, with his brother, and other such family photos.

File of mostly black and white portrait photographs of John McGahern. Images include McGahern pictured at a writing desk in a home-office/library, labelled as 'Rue Christine', [Paris]; writer headshot images, McGahern seated by a kitchen stove, and other such images, official headshots etc.

Black and white photographs of John McGahern pictured with friends and with other writers. Those pictured with McGahern include Jimmy Swift, Thomas Kilroy, Jennifer Johnston, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Derek Mahon, Francis Stuart, Sebastian Barry, Claire [Nehill], Robert Robertson, Stephen Rea, Annikki Laaksi, Francis and Mary [ ].
Also a photograph of John McGahern on a farm bottle-feeding a sheep.

File of black and white photographs of individuals connected to McGahern. Some image labels mention "The Shah", "Luke Early, Mohill", "Will Albrecht, Colgate University", "Pat Healy Balmbras, Newcastle", "Kevin Lahane, Capital Cinema Manager", "Tom Jordan".

File 2 includes photographs of McGahern with Matt Maloy at Kenny's Bookshop, Galway; with Derek Hand (DCU) on occasion of McGahern's Honorary Doctoral Conferring at Dublin City University; with Mary Lappin, Peter Lennon and Mary Kenny; Hermione Lee; the Booker Prize Evening Event with Barry Hanson and Nicohlas Shakespeare, also Matthew Evans; Peter Lennon; Joe Kennedy; Edna Longley and Gerry (Gerald) Dawe; Terry Winch at reading/interview event at Howard Community College, Maryland, USA; Colgate Faculty Clubhouse; Seamus O'Grady; Neil Joyce; Margaret [Mauve], Colgate; Charlie Haughey T.D., Niall Walsh (in New York); with John Banville and family in Paris.

File of photographs of John McGahern and labelled at various locations. One group of images includes polaroid-sized portrait images of McGahern and at a house in London. Those pictured in images with McGahern at the house include Seamus Heaney, Roger McHugh, Tom Jordan, Madeline Stratt, as well as McGahern's pet dog named Smokey, and a pet cat. (1975). Also larger black and white photographs labelled as "London, Leytonstone" and of house interiors and kitchen/living room shelves with items included being a television, Sacred Heart portrait and other ornamental items in the house; Contact sheets of images labelled "Barracks at Cootehall, Shooting Documentary"; Also contact sheets from John McGahern's honorary doctoral conferring at Dublin City University.

Assorted photographic negatives of images of and relating to John McGahern. Many are unlabelled.

File of black and white and sepia photographic prints featuring images of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. Photograph labels include Devlin pictured with Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant (1969); portrait headshot of Devlin, 1986; Other prints are copies of photographs of Devlin taken at political events, rallies, public gatherings and other such events in London and Northern Ireland mostly in the 1970s and 1980s.

File with black and white photograph of the film cast and crew on board a boat, named "Reef", moored at a harbour; black and white photograph of musicians involved in the film, including Dolores Keane; headshot images of actors in character, including Ian McElhinney and Ray McBride, promotional artwork/poster images for Reefer and the Model; contact sheets of promotional headshots of Lelia Doolan and Joe Comerford; colour photographic slides of promotional film stills and images.

Files of photographs taken in mainly Belfast during the mid-1970s and which are included in the PhD thesis by Lelia Doolan. Photographs feature events and scenes such as Orange Order marches and events on the twelfth of July in Belfast and Scarva; scene at a Peace Movement Rosary at Finaghy Road where two children had been killed; assembly of group at Woodvale Park after a joint walk by Protestant and Catholic women up the Shankill Road; community housing at Springhill; three men part of a Belfast youth group; house at Solway Street; House in Donegal; ticket for The People's Theatre 'Laugh In' event, 1974; photo of scene "Waiting for Possible Entry by Army, Springhill, Aug 1976"; scene of Fall Road Belfast, children sitting on street with burning truck across the street, and burnt out wreckage - Internment Anniversary Hijacking and Burning on the Falls Road, Aug 1976; A scene of a 'mass celebrated in the front room" of a house; "Tying Up the Bride" Lisburn Road Summer 1976; Street scene of marches with republican flags and banners "Provisional Political Status Meeting, Dunville Park, Belfast, 9 Aug 1976; with other A4 size sheet o card with montage of photographs or paramilitary funerals, coffins with tricolours, coffins in a hearse, crowds gathered at funerals etc.
One montage sheet includes student card with photo of Lelia Doolan. 1977.