File of letters from David Marcus to John McGahern. Marcus was a writer and editor at the Irish Press Newspaper. Letters in the 1970s discuss the inclusion of a story, "Swallows" (1971) in the New Irish Writing series; letters regarding publication of an extract from "The Leavetaking" (1974) and later letters discuss the inclusion of "The Wine Breath" in an anthology of Irish Ghost Stories, and other McGahern work being included in Phoenix Irish Short Story anthologies that Marcus is editing.

Letters from Murray Mindlin, editor and publisher, writing from London, 1969 to John McGahern with comments on the publication of McGahern's story, "Encounter", and on wider publication queries. Also a letter from [Andrea], Mindlin's wife, writing to those who knew Murray with details of his recent passing and comments on his life. One letter is on headed paper of "Censorship", which Mindlin edited (Jan 1970).

Letters from John Morris, Provost and Dean of Faculty, Colgate University, New York, inviting McGahern to be the O'Connor Chair in Literature, 1977, outlining terms of the post. Also letter asking McGahern is he could again visit for a term in 1990/1991.

File of letters labelled "Literary Editors" and also containing some letters from literary festivals to John McGahern. The letters include a typescript document bearing details of publication agreement (option/purchase costs for The Barracks, The Dark, Nightlines etc.) for works by McGahern and comments on the publication of each book; Signed contract between McGahern and Press De La Renaissance for translation and publication of "The High Ground" (1986); Letters with Russell and Volkening Literary Agents (1970s - 1990s); Robin Robertson at Penguin Books and later at Martin Secker and Warburg; Letters from other various editors at Penguin; David Evanier of the Paris Review (1980); Jonathan Riley at MacMillan Publishers (1996), Maura Kennedy, Director of Cúirt Literary Festival, Galway, with invitation for McGahern to read at the Festival (2005); Johnny Gogan, Bandit Films, James Conway of Opera Theatre Company; suggested text edits on "That They May Face the Rising Sun", (Granta, 2001); The New York Times Book Review (n.d.); Ali Reynolds of Vintage Random House Publishers; File also includes signed printed email by John McGahern to Ali Reynolds (6 Jan 2004); Invitation from Joanna Keane O'Flynn of Listowel Writers Week Festival, inviting McGahern to be the new President of Writer's Week.

Typescript letters from Bernard Loughlin, Resident Director of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, to John McGahern, writing to thank McGahern for his time and service to the Guthrie Centre board and also with comments on seeing McGahern's play "The Power of Darkness".
Also includes copy letter sent from Loughlin to a local operator of boats and waterskiing on the lake by the Centre, the noise from which was disturbing residents at the Centre.

File of letters from Kevin Lehane, whom I fondly recall from his time as manager of the Ambassador and Academy cinemas in Dublin. Lehane writes in detail of the opening night production of The Barracks, adapted for the stage by Hugh Leonard; comments on Irish society and censorship and of the banning the Dark - he mentions that copies of the book are circulating and being widely read in Dublin, and wider comments about McGahern's writing and of Dublin culture of the time.

Remembrance booklet for the late writer Eoghan Ó Tuairisc sent to McGahern by Rita Kelly, widow of Ó Tuairisc. Note on the back reads "Thank You, John, Rita". Includes photographs of Ó Tuairisc, and excerpts from poems.

Letters from Éamon Ó Tuathail to John McGahern, with discussions and arrangements for proposals for McGahern to teach in Cairo, Egypt.

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 from Jorgen Nielsen to John McGahern, discussing his translation of McGahern's novel "That They May Face The Rising Sun".