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Drawings and transparencies of items names as the Adare Wooden Bow and Iron Sword, Adare, Co. Limerick.

Page 13 and 2 pages of typed addenda for a lecture on Muintir na Tíre. Page 13 mentions the recent founding of a Muintir na Tíre guild in Clonmel, 3 guilds in Cork, and the hope of founding a Munster Provincial Council by the end of the year. The first addenda quotes Philippe Pétain in his constant use of the words 'the Family and the Land' and states 'These are the foundations on which he hopes to build anew the Fatherland.' The second addenda makes note of Muintir na Tíre's organisational structure and lack of political affiliation. Includes annotations and corrections.

Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Addergoole, [Eadargúil]. Included are descriptions of the National Park lands, in which he traces the ownership of the land since after the Famine, during which time it was part of the Martin Estate, the property of the Barrow and Calcutta Jute Company, James P Joyce, and currently the property of the OPW. Kylemore Farmhouse and yard are also described, with some detail on Addergoole Farm in the 19th and 20th centuries (a model farm, in which bogland was reclaimed, and the site of a turbine which powered a local sawmill). Tullygwee Bridge (Tulaig Guide bridge over the Dawros River), Glencorbet, Meacanach (Muckanaght) are also described.

File of letters, some third party, of objectors to the proposed wind farm. Jane Lamb, Seosamh Ó Cuaig, Neil Sharkey, copy letter from Robinson to Paddy Matthews, copy letter from Robinson to Sophie Rien.

A page containing bullet point facts about the wind farms on Inis Meáin, put together by Donncha Ó hÉallaithe in Irish language.

File of phone messages and notes scribbled down.

List of additional tenants on the Belvoir estate who have applied to the Land Court for Fair rents. Sent by J Brady to John Wilson Lynch.

File of photocopies of the following articles and books:

'Máire de Buitléir: Bean athbheochana' (1993) 2pp;

'The Splendid Years: Recollections of Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh as told to Edward Kenny' (1955) 2pp;

'Agnes O'Farrelly and Aran: Some Memories' (1952) 6pp;

Three Kuno Meyer obituaries from various sources. A post-it note from Tim Collins to Robinson is attached to the cover leaf, referring to other enclosures. They are not included in the archive. 9pp;

'An Ruathar úd agus a ndeachaigh leis: Micheál Ó Maoláin', in Irish (1955) 7pp;

'Life of George Petrie' 13pp,

'Clonmacnoise, Clare, and Arran - Part I' (1853) 14pp;

'Dublin Meeting of the British Association: Ethnological Excursion to The Aran Isles' (c1857) 19pp;

Two handwritten letters to Robinson from Jim Ballantyne (23 May-29 Jun 1988), enclosing a photocopy of an article 'Islanders who Read' by John Messenger, 7pp;

Handwritten letter to Robinson from Patrick Felle (9 Mar 1989) enclosing a photocopied article 'The ABO and RH blood groups of the Aran Islanders' 9pp;

'Settlement and Population in the Aran Islands' by R A Gailey, 7pp;

'The Ethnography of the Aran Islands, County Galway' by A C Haddon and C R Browne (1892) 65pp;

'Athenry the was, Galway that is, Aran that will be: Recent Works on Aran' by Paul F Botheroyd (1980) 5pp;

'The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran: England's Safety Valve in Case of War' book chapter copied from an unknown book 3pp;

'Embodying the Nation - The West of Ireland Landscape and Irish Identity c1892-1918' by Catherin Nash (1992). Accompanied by a cover letter from Nash to Robinson and a copy of his reply (Sep-Oct 1992) 20pp;

Handwritten cover note to Robinson from [?David W?] enclosing photocopies from H Zimmer's 'Keltische Beitrage'. (12 Feb 1993). Three pages of notes translate some of Zimmer's text on the subject of St Enda. The remainder of the file contains hundeds of photocopied pages from the volume. In German language.

Copies taken from the the papers of Julius Konietzko, an ethnographic explorer who visited the Aran Islands between 1911-1914. The notes are handwritten and include drawings of archaeological artefacts. In German language.

Photocopy from 'An t-Iomaire Ruadh' le Tomás Ó Máille, 1939. Tim Robinson's handwritten notes on the piece, focusing on Placenames.

Photocopies from the Monuments Dataset of the Archaeological Survey of Co Galway. All sites are in Connemara. The metadata captured includes the site classification, designation, condition, any threats, and a description of the site. (1 folder).

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes, some with cover notes from people who sent them).

'Hunter Gatherer Strategies in the Mesolithic: The Evidence from Western Connacht' by Michael Gibbons, Jim Higgins, Myles Gibbons (2005);

'The Irish Townland System of Landscape Organisation' by Thomas McErlean (1983);

Findings on Doonloghan by Finbar McCormick (1986);

'Bronze Age to Medieval Coastal Shell Middens near Ballyconneely, Co Galway', by Finbar McCormick, Michael Gibbons, Francis Gerald McCormac and Janine Moore (1996);

'Some Observations on the sites and monuments record of County Mayo' by Michael Gibbons, Olive Alcock, Tom Condit, Mary Tunney (1991);

'An unrecorded wedge-tomb at Scrahillia, Cashel, Connemara" by Gabriel Cooney (1984) with cover note;

Draft of 'Connemara's Emerging Prehistory' by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins;

'Aspects of Connemara's Prehistoric Landscape - the archaeological and paleobotanical evidence' by Michael Gibbons and Jim Higgins;

Print out of the distribution of sites in Connemara and the Aran Islands, September 1987;

'A Viking Burial in County Galway' by Joseph Raftery (1960);

'Notes on some of the Antiquities of the Barony of Ballinahing, Co. Galway' by Lord Killanin, undated;

'Notes on some of the antiquities of the Barony of Moycullen, Co Galway; by Lord Killanin (undated);

'Economy and settlement in Rural Ireland' Bruce Proudfoot (undated);

'Antiquities of Co Galway - an introduction' for Galway Official Guide to City and County;

'Ambergris: a lost link between Connemara and Andalusia' Michael Gibbons and Myles Gibbons (2009);

'Understanding Irish Landscape Evolution Pollen Assemblages from Neogene and Pleistocene palaeosurfaces in Western Ireland' Pete Coxon (2001);

'Modernes Wallfahrtwesen in Westirland' by Elisabeth Walther (1980), in German;

'Stone Basins (some examples from the West of Scotland on guides to typology' by A D Lacaille (1944), with a cover letter to Tim from Noel Dunne (1988).

File of photocopies of additional reading from the following data sources, articles and books (some containing Robinson's handwritten notes):

'The West of Ireland', Henry Coulter, (1862);

'Tour in Connemara and the Martins of Ballinahinch', Maria Edgeworth, (first published in 1950);

'Rosaleen Dhass - A Tale of the Killeries', "Aroon", (1902);

'Tales of the West of Ireland', James Berry, (1966);

'Tyrone House, Co. Galway', Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, (1976);

'Geography and the Irish Electoral System', A J Parker, (1984-5);

Griffiths Valuation for the Unions of Clifden and Mountbellew (1855);

Selected copies from O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey letters for Galway (Vol 3), (1839);

'A Statistical and agricultural survey of the County of Galway drawn up for the consideration and by the direction of the Royal Dublin Society', Hely Dutton, (1824);

'Lewis Topographical Dictionary for Moyrus', (1837);

'Slater's Directory, Ireland for Clifden', (1856);

'The Last Invasion of Ireland - When Connacht Rose', Richard Francis Hayes, (1939) - notes on Fr Miles Prendergast;

'Five letters Relating to Galway Smuggling in 1737'. Louis Cullen, (1962);

'A forgotten campaign and aspects of the heritage of South East Galway', (1986) - note about the arrest of Johnny Gibbons at Woodford;

'Connemara Refuge for Mayo Rebels of '98', Rory Lavelle, (typed piece, possibly unpublished);

'On timeless shores - journeys in Ireland', . C. Vyvyan, (1957);

'Fifty years of Irish Journalism', Andrew Dunlop, (1911) - writes of Carraroe evictions and the Maamtrasna murders;

'The Irish Crisis of 1879-80', Proceedings of the Dublin Mansion House Relief Committee 1880, (1881) - refers to Arranmore Investigation;

'An Account of the Constitution, Administration and Dissolution of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland from 1891-1923', William L Micks, (1925);

'Memories: Wise and Otherwise', Sir Henry Robinson, (1924);

The last folder contains Tim's handwritten notes from 'Whites Tour of Connemara', 'Cromwell from Old Galway', 'O'Flaherty Iar-Chonnacht', 'Hell or Connacht! The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1952-1660'. There are some tourist brochures from 1990s also in this folder, and have been left here as per original order.