Item 5 - Hardback Diary Ledger

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Hardback folio ledger, which includes draft manuscript of a play, in a number of scenes, with some typescript loose-leaf draft scenes also included. No working title of the play is listed. Other loose-leaf manuscript pages are enclosed. These include a stamped envelope, dated 9 Sep 1951, addressed to Miss Eileen Boyle, Bank of Ireland, Sligo, MS note on inside "Up in the city the lights are glowing, the city is like a Venetian lake, the reflections, the shadows...."

The Diary section begins with an entry dated 2 January 1948. Diary entries continue through coming weeks and reference trips to the opera, comments on performances, films recently seen, comments on actors and the films, and notes about theatre in Dublin, as well as meetings with friends. Entry for April 19th 1948 opens with: "I have made two of the steps in any life: have joined the staff of the Bank of Ireland, College Green, and the Brendan Smith Academy of Acting." Diary entries over following weeks and months give details accounts of actor training, class schedule and content and mentions of classmates at the Brendan Smith Academy. Later entries recount being offered a post as producer by Brendan Smith but would have to leave job in the Bank of Ireland; comments and accounts of plays and movies seen in Dublin over coming months of 1948 and to c. 1950. The diary entries record social engagements around Dublin and general comments on culture and events in the city.

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31/07/2020
30/07/2025