Typescript of "The Battle of Aughrim" by Richard Murphy, with a letter from Murphy included, 2 Dec 1967, sending the item to John McGahern.
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Typescript of adaptation for the stage of the McGahern novel, "Amongst Women", adapted by Johnny Hanrahan. Letters includes from The Agency to Madeline McGahern with comments on the process of adaptation of the novel into a stage play.
Typescript of film treatment of John McGahern's novel "The Pornographer". Item is unlabelled but with a name of "Anita Barrett" noted on cover of file.
Revised typescript of screenplay of "The Pornographer" adapted for the screen by Kieran Hickey and Douglas Kennedy (B.A.C. Films, Dublin).
Photocopy of radio script of the audio/drama version of "Sinclair" by John McGahern, produced by Ronald Mason, with Cyril Cusack as "Boles" and Norman Rodway as "Gillespie", transmitted on 16 Nov 1971, with manuscript note by John McGahern on the cover.
Second copy of the script, different version, also included in file.
Typescript of radio play version of short story by John McGahern entitled "Faith, Hope, and Charity".
Poster advertising an interview with John McGahern at DePaul University, Chicago. "Ireland's premier novelist". Poster includes book cover of "By the Lake" - the U.S. edition of "Memoir".
Copies of "The New Yorker" magazine, 17 March 1980, including McGahern's story "Gold Watch"; "The New Yorker" [1979] - No apparent McGahern content; "The New Yorker" 22 March 1982 featuring "High Ground" by John McGahern; "Philobiblon" - The Journal of the Friends of the Colgate University Library, NY, being an issue of a James Joyce Exhibition Catalogue, with a foreword by John McGahern (Jun - Sep 1979); "In Dublin" Magazine, September 1985 with interview with John McGahern by Colm Tóibín.
Press releases and statements issued by the Language Freedom Movement, Conradh na Gaeilge, and Gael-Linn commenting on the education system, covering themes including civil rights, the financial cost of the Irish language programme to the education system, and the Ballinasloe school question.
Press release issued by the Language Freedom Movement quoting remarks made by Christopher T. Morris, LFM President, at the formal establishment of an LFM branch in Galway. Comments made relate to the annual cost of the Gaelic language programme in the primary school system. Criticises the replacement policy 'both in principle and in its highly objectionable practice of compulsion and discrimination'. Highlights that the people of Ireland have not been given a chance to have their say in the Replacement Policy. Recommends a study conducted by Fr. John McNamara entitled 'Bilingualism and Primary Education'.