Letters from Tony Swift, friend of McGahern. Also includes manuscript letter from John McGahern to Swift, 1957. Also copy of letter from McGahern to Swift, 1994, and details of honorary conferrals at Trinity College Dublin, 1991, including an award to McGahern.

File of letters from Tim Seldes (and others) at Russell & Volkening Inc. Literary Agents, New York, regarding representation of McGahern by the agency, discussions on terms, comments on Faber and Faber and A.M. Heath., comments on McGahern's books, updates on international editions and royalties, updates on approaches re. television adaptation of The Pornographer, as well as Portuguese rights to the book, updates on reprints and rights for The Dark, and other related publishing news on and of McGahern's work.

File of letters to John McGahern from the New Yorker magazine. Includes payslips with fees paid to McGahern for stories published, "High Ground", "Around the Big Stone House", "Sierra Leone". Letters from editorial assistants include clearance of permissions for reproduction of stories "Summer at Strandhill" and "The Wine Breath" (1967, 1977). Also letters from Robert Hemenway sending apologies that "Bomb Box" was not published there (1969) and from Mary D. Kierstead (1974) rejecting an unnamed story by McGahern, commenting that " ... it is extremely difficult for a man to put himself in the shoes of a complex, introspective woman".
NOTE: See also P71/1598 for other New Yorker letters from Elizabeth Cullinane and William Maxwell. Other New Yorker material is also located within various other series of the McGahern Archive.

Letters sent to John McGahern in file labelled "B.B.C.", and from various staff members discussing radio/TV adaptations of works by John McGahern. Letters discuss the plans for projects around the story "Swallows", which didn't happen, discussions around the stereo radio play of "Sinclair" and with comments on casting of roles for the play, and also a list of comments/questions about the radio production. Also includes a letter from Peter Redgrave, Falmouth, Cornwall, to McGahern, indicating that he too had an unhappy experience at Colgate University, NY, and sends McGahern a TS of a radio piece about his experiences as a visiting professor at Colgate. Letter from [Dervan] May, headed paper "The Listener and BBC Television Review, London, with McGahern following up on payment for a story. (Mar 1970).
Includes sub-file - (P71/1588A) with letters from John Scotney, Drama Producer, B.B.C. (1971) with correspondence regarding radio drama adaptation of "The Barracks" by John McGahern, and with discussions about the adaptation and its dramatic composition.

Letters from Susanna Capon, Script Assistant, Drama, Radio, of the B.B.C., to John McGahern, discussing works being commissioned, including an original play based on "The Power of Darkness" (23 June 1971 and 9 Dec 1971); with discussions also around the radio adaptation of McGahern's story "Sinclair".

Letter on UCD headed paper from Stanley van der Ziel, then a PhD student at UCD working on McGahern, sending McGahern a review he did of "Memoir" for Irish University Review. A reply by McGahern in included, though labelled "Not for Publication" it is included in "The Letters of John McGahern" (Faber and Faber 2021 edited by Frank Shovlin). In the email reply, McGahern responds at length to the review and with comments on his literary life, his brief relationship with Nuala Ó Faoláin, comments on farming, his writing of Memoir etc.

Photocopy of TS letter from Sean Brosnahan, Treasurer, Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) to Sean (John) McGahern, Leytonstone, London, updating McGahern that, via Fr. P. Carton, Parish priest, Clontarf, that "the Manager [of the school where McGahern taught] does not feel under an obligation to supply us with the reasons for the cancellation of your agreement with him."
This letter relates to McGahern losing his job as a school teacher following the publication of his novel, The Dark in 1965.
Letter, 18 Jan 1966, to Sean (John) McGahern, stating the Manager does not feel under any obligation to supply us with the reasons for the cancellation of your agreement with him."
Letter from Brosnahan to McGahern, (21 Dec 1965) re. no updates as yet in relation to McGahern's query.

File of three letters from Rudiger Imhof to John McGahern, offering to arrange a reading via the Irish Embassy in Germany, at a venue in Wuppertal, by McGahern; also sending comments on McGahern's writing and also about reading John Williams's book, "Stoner", introduced by McGahern.

Letters from Robert Robertson, Editor/Editorial Director to John McGahern. Robertson writers from roles with various publishers over the years including Martin Secker and Warburg, Jonathan Cape, and Random House, discussing publishing rights and offers for McGahern's books.

TS letter from McClean to Michael [ ] enclosing documents regarding a case of internment under the Special Powers Act and suggesting that perhaps Kevin Boyle could look at the case. Attached is a letter from Patrick McClean sent to John Hume, M.P., Derry