Letters of enquiries made to Macnas regarding potential events during 1994 and discussions regarding events produced by Macnas. Letters between Macnas and others, including Guinness - Galway Oyster Festival and The Rose of Tralee; Guinness ark and animals and wider correspondence regarding imagery used in Guinness artworks and media by Macnas; Kerry County Council and performance of Tír Faoi Thonn in Kerry; Sligo Corporation re. Sligo 750th anniversary; Shannon Development regarding production of parade with various Macnas characters and scenarios; Aer Rianta, Shannon Airport re. Christmas events involving Macnas.
Folder with info on Macnas and with other theatre companies.

Letters of enquiries made to Macnas regarding potential events during 1994 and discussions regarding events produced by Macnas. File is labelled "Small Gigs". Letters between Macnas and others, including letters of discussion and agreement for event at Armagh Together Festival; The Late Late Breakfast Show, Warwick Hotel, Salthill; series of fax and letters between Macnas and Bradford Festival, UK, regarding a production at the Festival of Puppetry and Animation; letters ad fax with others including Castlerea Traders Association; Union of Students in Ireland; Amnesty International; Clarinbridge Oyster Festival; Moya Doherty; Tennent's Festival of the Sea, Galway; Irish Coffee Festival, Foynes, Limerick; Danish event enquiry; the Festival De Theatre Europeen, Grenoble, France; Jane Daly of Druid Theatre re. Sydney Festival; film extra work, comprising list of all Macnas personnel, and also re. Kildare Derby Festival.
File 2 includes letters between Gary MacMahon, Macnas and Steffanie Braun, Berlin, regarding arts production contract and work with Macnas; letter from Zapp Productions, Brighton, U.K.; file with overview and schedule documents, with manuscript notes relating to the Arts, Cultural Management and New Technologies Conference held at University of Ulster (Mar 1996).

Fax and letter correspondence between Macnas (Gerry McMahon, Project Director) and RTÉ and its production team for staging the Eurovision Song Contest, (Marie Travers, Project Co-Ordinator) held in Millstreet, Co. Cork, and also with Moya Doherty, Producer, Eurovision Song Contest, and which details the discussions on planning and logistics for the staging the event, contracts of agreement between RTÉ and Macnas, breakdown of costs and budgets for work by Macnas at Eurovision and other matters.

File of letter and fax correspondence between Macnas and the Earth Circus Performance Troupe, (E.C.P.T.) California. Includes letters to Padraic Breathnach from Anne Reeb, E.C.P.T., discussing the great experiences of performing in Galway as part of the [Macnas] parade and looking forward to welcoming Macnas to San Francisco and to working closely with Macnas. Other letters between Rod Goodall of Macnas, and Reeb, discuss plans for performance by Macnas, as well as other performers and possible collaborators.

File of letter and fax correspondence regarding a project proposal from Macnas to produce "Buile Suibhne" ("Sweeney") as part of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York. Includes correspondence between Padraic Breathnach, Gary McMahon, and Rod Goodall of Macnas with others connected with the planning and organisation of Macnas tour to the United States in 1995. Includes correspondence with the Irish Arts Foundation of San Francisco (IAF-SF) and Eddie Stack, its Artistic Director; Peter O'Neill of IAF-SF, inviting Mayor of Galway Fintan Coogan to be part of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in San Francisco; Proposal document "Macnas in Massachusetts" (Mar 1995); Mike Durkin of the Annenberg Centre, Philadelphia; Printed itinerary for Macnas day-by-day in USA; flyers and headed paper for Irish-American Cultural Institute; 65th Anniversary issue of the Irish Echo magazine supplement; flyers from Artaud Theatre, San Francisco; Celtic National Heritage Festival of Louisiana; Playbill from "All in the Timing" at John Houseman. Other items include lists of items and materials needed for costumes/props used on US tour, as well as projected budgets with costs for the tour.

File 2 relates to media and publicity for the tour, includes printed flyers from Buile Suibhne/Sweeney by Macnas on its U.S. Tour, programmes and press cuttings of coverage from venues in the US as well as excerpts of press coverage of Macnas from Irish media; lists of media outlets and contacts in US areas.

File of letter and fax correspondence relating to the U.S. tour by Macnas in 1995. Includes draft template contracts from Somerville Theatre; document entitled "Macnas in America" Information Pack; Correspondence with venue staff and managers regarding tour and performance logistics, tv and media appearances; daily itineraries and other discussions about the tour. (Files 1-3) Note: File 4 includes documents, applications and correspondence regarding visa applications for Macnas members to travel.

Correspondence includes copy of printed booklet, "Great Irish Famine Event" published by the organising committee of the event, Mill Street, Co. Cork.; Agtel Communications and Dept of Foreign Affairs; Macalla Theatre Company, the Bronx, New York; Buro Fur Kultur Und Medien Projekte, Hamburg, Germany; RTÉ; Dreamchaser Productions, Dublin; the Bridewell Theatre, Carlow.

File of correspondence between Macnas and Wilson Hartnell Public Relations Company and Target Marketing Company regarding the contracting of Macnas to create an event including participating in a parade in Galway to the Galway Festival Marquee run by Guinness and to feature puppets of the Guinness animals featured in advertisements. Financial breakdown and costs included.

File of fax and letter correspondence between Macnas and Galway Chamber of Commerce, inviting Macnas to participate in the 1995 St. Patrick's Day parade, and also with Dublin tourism discussing participation in the Dublin parade. Also includes correspondence discussing logistics for a parade production of Gulliver, and also with insurance companies regarding cover for the parade.

Fax and letter correspondence between Macnas and Marketing Network, discussing a proposed job in association with Carling XL beer and lager. Details and breakdown of request, along with associated costs are included.