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Printed programme from Rough Magic/Lyric Theatre, Belfast, production of 'The Parker Project' - two Stewart Parker plays, "Spokesong" and "Pentecost". Includes an article "Beyond the National Question" by Marilynn Richtarik, Georgia State University; a note on Rough Magic Theatre Company and also on the Lyric Theatre, Belfast; a chronology of the plays and works of Stewart Parker and also images and biographies of creative team and cast members.

Given the 1923 fire, it is surprising that anything has survived to this time. The collection consists of 23 items, and there is little continuity. The legal material consists of a scattering of deeds from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mainly deeds of conveyance to the Kirwans, and marriage settlements, and could in no way be seen as a comprehensive record of the family.

The estate management material dates from the 1850s to the 1890s, and consists of the account of the land agent with Denis Kirwan, later his wife and then their daughter. There are also rentals which would have been used by the land agent to record rents received. This material gives a comprehensive picture of the monies they received out of their estate in the later nineteenth century.

The final section of this collection consists of a number of disparate maps and surveys of lands from county Galway over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some refer to Athenry and the estate of the Birmingham family there, as well as a 1781 map of the property of Francis French on the shore and islands of Lough Corrib. Again there is no sense of original order, and the material does not form a coherent series of records, so they have been listed chronologically.

The documents are largely comprised of newspaper cuttings and printed papers concerning the renumeration and retirement of professors, a row over clinical teaching at the Galway Infirmary and the establishment of the Galway Hospital in 1892, the submissio

This collection consists of written, printed and photographic archives pertaining to the academic career, and wider historical interests, of Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy (1911-1975), historian, and professor of History at University College Galway from 1958

File of research documents and notes, relating to the region known as the Pale. Includes copy of TS letter by Etienne Rynne published in The Irish Times in response to recent article on exhibition regarding destruction of historic sites within the Pale (1976); Other letters between Rynne and A.T. Lucas and Joseph Raftery of the National Museum, and also letters between Rynne and Dr. Beryl Moore, also discussing destruction of elements of the Pale. Assorted black and white photographic prints of unnamed rural landscape also included.

Typed script, with handwritten annotations by Carolyn Swift of "The Other Fellow", on the life of Brendan Behan. File includes a draft film treatment script, and also a draft playscript.

Article entitled 'The Ormesby [sic] Lettersby George Ormsby, published in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 14, No. 3/4 (1929), pp. 85-100.

Print copy of paper by [Kevin Boyle] - Seminar in Deviant Behaviour: Social Control and Law, "The Origins and Forms of Modern Police Organisations".

Files of correspondence, photographs and other material related to the O'Mara Family, Strand House, Limerick. The O'Mara's are a branch of the Rynne family and were a prominent family in Limerick and national politics and business, running companies such as the O'Mara Bacon company in Limerick. Stephen O'Mara Snr (Mayor of Limerick and supporter of Parnell), was grandfather of Michael and Mary Rynne. There is a large file of correspondence from and to Stephen O'Mara Snr, including, manuscript letters from William Gladstone and Charles Stewart Parnell. Other O'Mara family members documented include Joseph O'Mara, a famous opera singer, Phons O'Meara, Mayor of Limerick in 1909, Connie O'Mara, James O'Mara, Patrick 'Paddy' O'Mara, S.J., and others.
Note: There are inconsistencies between those writing to the family on the spelling of 'O'Mara'. For consistency, the catalogue uses the form 'O'Mara' rather than 'O'Meara' throughout. This is the form favoured by the family.