File includes departmental and university materials regarding staffing, salaries, teaching loads, student welfare, teaching assessment and related documents. Includes issues of newsletter of Irish Federation of University Teachers.

File includes letters of support, letters of reference and related documents relating to the appointment of Etienne Rynne as Chair and Professor in Celtic Archaeology at UCG. Also includes other documents relating to the application and appointment to the post.

File includes assorted papers and documents relating to field trips and outings by the archaeological society of UCG. Includes lists of sites visited from 1955 and in subsequent years; exam papers submitted of archaeology students, conference details of young/student archaeologists, press cuttings of articles relating to excavations of various sites around Ireland and the U.K. (including Stonehenge); and also assorted research notes by Rynne and others regarding Irish archaeological sites and historical research of same. Includes itinerary of the Young Irish Archaeologists Association third annual conference, 13-16 March 1970.

Files relating to excursions and field trips to various locations and sites made by the UCG archaeological society, many of which were led and organised by Etienne Rynne. Includes maps, schedules, correspondence, and other items related to the trips to sites mainly in Connemara, Co. Clare, the Burren and other areas. Also includes correspondence with French institutes regarding extra-mural studies exchanges.
File 3 relates to tour to the Isle of Man by a UCG group, 1979.

File relates to the honorary degree ceremony at UCG in 1996 which featured an honorary Doctorate of Literature awarded to Professor Charles Thomas, University of Exeter. Also awarded honorary Doctorates included John Hume and Patricia Donlan. File includes correspondence regarding the nomination and selection of candidates for award; correspondence between Rynne and Thomas; black and white image from the ceremony' invitation, and programme from the ceremony.

File includes letters sent to Etienne Rynne from mainly student archaeologists, seeking experience of excavation work or other archaeologist work, from Ireland, France and Germany.

File includes documents regarding the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and its fifteenth Robert Adams Postgraduate Lecture, by Etienne Rynne, and entitled "Sir William Wilde's Lough Corrib Archaeologically Re-assessed", held at the D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, UCG (NUIG), 7 March 1986. Includes correspondence between Rynne and the RCSI, inviting Rynne to deliver the lecture and letters planning his arrangement. Also manuscript research notes by Rynne and copies of articles/research material used by Rynne in writing the lecture.

File relating to an invited lecture given by Etienne Rynne, 23 February 1984, with file label stating its title being "Neolithic in North-Eastern Connacht and the Problem of the Megalithic." Includes correspondence between Rynne and Institute of Cornish Studies regarding the planning and arrangement of the lecture. Also includes manuscript research notes and printed articles using by Rynne in researching and writing the lecture.

Files of correspondence regarding assorted invited public lectures given by Etienne Rynne. Includes letters regarding lecture entitled "Ireland from Saint Patrick to the Reformation" for the Rathmichael Historical Society, also with manuscript research material and notes on same. This lecture appears to have been given to other organisations as discussed in the letters.

Letters from assorted historical and archaeological organisations inviting Etienne Rynne to deliver a lecture. includes correspondence with poet Thomas Kinsella, Dept of English, Southern Illinois University, 1970; the University College Dublin Archaeological Society; The Royal Society of Antiquaries; University College Cork Historical Society; University College Cork Archaeological Society; Institute for Cornish Studies, Cornwall; the Institute of Irish Studies, Dublin; Foras Uí Chomhraí; University of Bristol Extra-Mural Studies.