Files relating to the publication of a festschrift in honour of Helen M. Roe, edited by Etienne Rynne and published by the Glendale Press for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland in 1987.

File 1: Includes offprints of chapter by Etienne Rynne included in the volume entitled "A Pagan Celtic Background for Sheela-Na-Gigs"; Press cutting of interview with Helen M. Roe by Elgy Gillespie on the occasion of Roe's 90th (1985); MS notes by Rynne notes to be for the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) for the press following Roe's election to the RIA; List of those recommended for election to the RIA, Mar 1984;Letter from RIA to Rynne acknowledging Roe's nomination for election to the RIA by Rynne (Nov 1983); Review of "Images from the Past"; Correspondence between Rynne and Glendale Press discussing the publication process for the volume; Correspondence between Rynne and contributors to the volume, including Sir John Galvin; and others including Brendáin Ó Ríardáin, Director, National Museum of Ireland; Dr. Colm Ó hEocha, President, University College Galway; Prof. John O'Scanlan.

File 2: Includes correspondence between Etienne Rynne and Helen M. Roe, Ellen [Nell] Prendergast, National Museum of Ireland,, Invitation to the launch of the volume at the Royal Irish Academy, Oct 1987; printed flyer with contents details for the volume; black and white photograph of Etienne Rynne presenting Helen M. Roe with a bouquet of flowers on the occasion of the book launch at the RIA, Oct 1987. Later letters from Prendergast to Rynne outline her plans to undertake a report chronicling the history of the National Museum of Ireland. Also additional material from 1999 includes a press cutting of an obituary for Prendergast, from the Irish Times, May 1999.

File 3: Includes correspondence between Etienne Rynne and Glendale press regarding publication of the volume; Joe Marron, National Museum of Ireland; Aidan Duggan, RIA, regarding the election of Helen M. Roe; Cormac Bourke, London; Ellen [Nell] Prendergast, National Museum of Ireland; Dr. Colm Hourihane; Breandáin Ó Riárdáin; J.P. MacHale, UCD.

File 4: Letters between Etienne Rynne and contributors to the book, including Anthony Weir, Co. Down; Elisabeth Munksgaard, National Museum of Denmark; Charlotte [Blindheim], University Museum of National Antiquities, Oslo, Norway; Dr. Ann Hamlin, Dept. of Environment, Northern Ireland.

File relating to a chapter published by Etienne Rynne, entitled, "Leo Swan's Pet Subject: Enclosed Early Ecclesiastical Sites in Ireland" published in "Above and Beyond: Essays in Memory of Leo Swan", Wordwell Press, Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2005. File includes manuscript and typescript drafts of the chapter; correspondence with the book's editors and with other publishers seeking permission to reproduce maps and images in the chapter. Also some research material used by Rynne in writing the chapter.

File relating to an essay by Etienne Rynne contributed to a volume of essays in honour of Robert Stevenson. Includes correspondence between Rynne and the volume's editor, David Clarke, National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh, discussing the chapter and format. Includes manuscript research notes and drawings of objects used in research by Rynne for the chapter; Various typescript drafts of the chapter by Rynne entitled "Some Early Iron-Age Sword-Hilts from Ireland and Scotland."

File relating to the publication by Dr. David Nicolle of a book of essays to which Etienne Rynne was invited to contribute a chapter in the early 1980s. The book was not published until 1999, no evidence Rynne was a contributor to the final volume. Includes letters between Rynne and Nicole and also between Rynne and Ian Heath with detailed discussion around early Irish weapons and armour.

File includes offprint of chapter by Etienne Rynne, Ireland's Earliest 'Celtic' High Crosses: The Ossory and Related Crosses included in "Early Medieval Munster: Archaeology, History, and Society", edited by Michael A. Monk and John Sheehan and published by Cork University Press.

Files relating to chapter by Etienne Rynne published in a book of essays in honour of Raleigh Radford. Rynne chapter was entitled "Unnoticed Constructional Feature in Insular Church and Castle Building".
File 1: Includes manuscript draft and typescript final draft of the article.

File 2: File include research notes, manuscript notes and drawings and research material by Rynne. Also includes black and white and also photographic prints of archaeological sites examined by Rynne. Sites and locations include and refer to evidence of 'Rynne Holes' at Monasterboice; Caerphilly Castle, Glamorganshire; Bloody Tower, Tower of London; Boyle Abbey, Co. Roscommon; Hore Abbey, Co. Tipperary; St. Caimin's Inis Cealtra, Co. Clare; Aghadoe, Co. Kerry; Kilmallock Priory, Co Limerick; Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway; St. German's Cathedral, Isle of Man; Strade Priory, Co. Mayo; Lanercost Priory, Cumberland; Ferns, Co. Wexford. Manuscript research notes present for sites at Buttevant Co. Cork; Sligo Abbey; Fanore, Co. Clare; Dominican Priory, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick; Abbeyshrule Cistercian Abbey; Roche Castle, Co. Louth, and other sites around Ireland.

File 3: Correspondence between Etienne Rynne and the publishers of the volume, regarding the publication of Rynne's chapter; also correspondence between Rynne and various academics, curators and others who discussed matters and research with Rynne regarding 'Rynne holes' and related topics, from Ireland, Wales, and England.

Research material by Etienne Rynne relating to the early Iron Age in Co. Clare, for publication on the North Munster Antiquarian Journal. Includes illustrations of artefacts with annotation and comments, of objects such as iron swords; includes plan maps of sites such as prehistoric forts at Mogane and Langough, Dromoland, Co. Clare; Also correspondence between Rynne and others at the Royal Irish Academy, University College Dublin, University College Cork and others.

File includes text of an article written in memory and in appreciation to Dr. Joseph Raftery, former director of the National Museum, Dublin and a figure Rynne had an extensive correspondence and contact over many years. File also includes press cuttings of death notice and obituary for Raftery. Also correspondence between Rynne and others working on putting the volume together.

File includes correspondence between Etienne Rynne and National Geographic Society and Magazine regarding an invitation to Rynne to contribute an article on the Celts.

Documents include notes, plans and outlines for a planned festschrift to mark the 70th birthday of Professor Charles Thomas. Includes correspondence between Rynne and some potential contributors discussing items for a volume.