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Correspondence between Máiréad Robinson and Máire Feiritear requesting to join Cumann Béaloidis Chonamara (1988);

Notes relating to collection of Béaloideas, handwritten notes on Seancais Iorrus Aithneach, Siamsa an Gheimhridh, Irish language newspaper cutting on Oíche na Gaoithe Móire / Night of the Big Wind.

A copy of a story from Rory Lavelle in the School Folklore Collection, accessed June 1988.

Letter from Éamonn de Buitléar dated 26 January 1995 thanking Tim and Máiréad for their kind letter on 'The Last Galway Hooker'.

Clipping of article, 'Collective Farming: Experiment Boldly, Says Commissioner', from the 30 March 1942 issue of the Irish Independent. The article covers the lecture given by P.J. Meghan, County Commissioner, Clonmel, 'The Church and the Ideal of Life Upon the Land', at Catholic Social Week in Tipperary the previous evening, as well as the talk of lecture chair Very Reverend V.J. Dinan of Rockwell College.

Letter from Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, to Dr. Pat Fottrell, President NUI Galway, thanking him for his speech at the ceremony the previous day.

Short editorial from an unspecified college magazine thanking those who submitted and corrected articles.

Hardback foolscap size ledger with list of colleges and sacristies as clients of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry. Dates and amounts of monies received listed in each column.

File of documents relating to the Colloquium on 'Anti-Terrorist Measures and Human Rights" held at the Vienna Diplomatic Academy and at which Kevin Boyle was a speaker on a panel discussing National Anti-Terrorist Measures and Human Rights. Includes a con

Photocopy of a handwritten transcription of a video made by Muintearas na nOileáin. The subject is Colm de Bhailís, the Leitir Mealláin poet born in 1796. The piece is in Irish, and gives biography, words of poems and songs. Handwriting not Tim Robinson's.

Colm "Stride" O'Brien. Printed press release issued by Music for Galway from the concert held at the Aula Maxima, University College Galway; TS biographical details on O'Brian; TS letter from O'Brien to Jane O'Leary of Music for Galway enclosing a C.V. (25 Aug 1990) TS letter from Billy [Poke] to Jane O'Leary of Music for Galway, detailing the career success of O'Brien and discussing the possibility of O'Brien playing Galway (23 Aug 1991) and TS letter from O'Brien to Pauline [ ] detailing his concert title to be 'The Vintage Years of Ragtime Jazz' and signs off by saying "Looking forward to meeting you in Galway". (14 Nov 1991)

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. From 12 Rutland Street, he begins the letter "I don't know if you have heard before this that Bob Ruttledge has purchased Maidenhill for £3000, I considered it so great a bargain that I thought it a pity ro let him get it, at least without paying the value for it. I therefore have opened the sale and intend bidding as far as £3600 for it. To raise the money he has asked his brother Tom to take a new lease, "his answer was that he thought it would be foolish in him to give up his present lease ... you will therefore oblige me very much if you will send me a line to my uncle to give me as many of your debentures as I may call for ... I have Tom Elwood's [father of his first wife] bond for £1000 amd Owen Lloyd's [brother of his wife Anne] for £2000 and my uncle owes me some money so that I have security sufficient as far as I will go ..."

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. Concerning the Maidenhill property "... most probable Bob Ruttledge will not let it go for that sum ... I am therefore thinking I will bid £4000 for it ... I will be obliged if you will lend me £1000 for which I will give you my bond payable in twelve months ... my purchase from Trench makes me very good security ... it is a pity to let what has been in our family for above forty years go under the value and what ought to be Toms if my grandfather [Thomas Ruttledge] had been a man of his word ..."