Production notebook relating to production and development of The Game by Macnas, which was staged as part of the 1987 Connacht (Gaelic) Football Final. A4 hardback bound notebook, with manuscript notes and drawings of scenarios and scenes of the production, and also drawings of the proposed set/staging. Notebook is in the name of Paraic Breathnach. (Summer 1987)

Four folders of early Tim Robinson writing, when he was writing under the name Timothy Drever. 'The Festival of Creation' was originally conceived as a novel when he first worked on it in the 1960s. It became truncated into the first short story in the 2002 book 'Tales and Imaginings'.

Folder 1: Handwritten notes sketching out the novel.

Folder 2: Handwritten notes originally captioned 'Scraps from Novel 1', with doodles and number puzzles interspersed.

Folder 3: Drafts (one handwritten, two typed from 'The Festival of Creation' of 'Now and Later'. Drafts (one handwritten, two typed) of 'The Identicals', which later became 'Secret Meeting'.

Folder 4: Typed draft of 'Now and Later'.

Manuscript notebooks written by Annie Ryan during the development and rehearsal of The Fall of the Second Republic.
Notebook 1 (Jan 2020) has note on inside cover "The Fall of the Second Republic - Rehearsal Notebook". Includes detailed rehearsal notes, schedules, and comments by Annie Ryan during rehearsal of the play.

Notebook 2 has note on inside cover of "The Fall of the Second Republic - Pre-Production". Written by Annie Ryan and includes detailed early production ideas, scene by scene breakdown with concepts, themes and ideas, questions, workshop notes, drawings and sketches of set design etc.

File of MS and TS records relating to the production of "The Factory Girls" by Frank McGuinness. File includes document headed "Earnings from Factory Girls at Riverside" with details of agreed fees and of transport, flights and subsistence costs; "Accounting for Monies at Riverside; Bank of Ireland 'Advice of Payment' slip, from Riverside Trust Ltd to Druid; Contract of agreement between Druid Theatre and Riverside Studio, London (16 May 1988); Correspondence re. arrangements and invite list for production of "The Factory Girls" at the Riverside Studio as part of "A Sense of Ireland '88"; Agreement and financial information between Jerome Hynes, Druid Theatre and Rosalind Scanlon, 'A Sense of Ireland', London. Manuscript notes and breakdown of costs and expenses for Irish tour of "The Factory Girls"; information on costs of stage and setting and make-up; Draft MS report to the Arts Council on "The Factory Girls" tour (item 14); Time sheets of cast members (item 15); TS letter with MS draft notes from Jerome Hynes of Druid to Phelim Donlon of the Arts Council, Dublin, detailing an application for tour funding for "The Factory Girls" (item 16); and also wages information. Includes manuscript extract of the play. Also includes a series of time sheets for cast member rehearsal sessions.

Production file for "The Crystal Spider / The Man With Two Kisses", Pan Pan Theatre Company at the Players New Theatre, Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin. This production was scheduled as "The Crystal Spider" by Madame Rothschild being a lunchtime production (1.15pm) and "The Man With Two Kisses" performed in the evening (8.15pm). File includes printed handbill with information on the production and image of a medical syringe; a press release about the production, "What you will find at a performance of Pan Pan Theatre may surprise you as much as what you will not find ...." and sets out the goals of Pan Pan as being to explore sign language, promote deaf culture, and develop new theatrical expression."; Pan Pan is described as being Ireland's first fully professional ensemble of Hearing and Deaf Actors"; File also includes large outside printed poster for the production; technical specification list for the production and theatre space; a manuscript lost of scene schedule and titles within the plays; unused headed paper with the Pan Pan logo and details, with the slogan of "People and Noise".
File also includes a drawing of technical spec/lighting design for "The Man With Two Kisses" by Aedin Cosgrove.

Files relating to the excavation of cists and related objects at The Cronk, Upper Lhergydhoo, Isle of Man.
File includes Correspondence between Etienne Rynne and Marshall Cubbon, Director of the Manx Museum and National Trust, Douglas, Isle of Man; discussing in detail items found at the Cronk, with drawings of said items (21 Mar 1983); Letter from Cubbon with black and white photograph of pot from cist at site (17 Oct 1980); Letter and black and white photographs of excavation site (possibly The Cronk) sent to Rynne from [Dich] [ ]; MS notes and drawings made by Rynne of artefacts from the Cronk made at the Manx Museum, by Rynne, 1980; Colour photograph of Rynne pictured with a group for UCG Archaeological Excavation Team at the Isle of Man, 1981.

File 2: Hardback notebook kept by Etienne Rynne entitled The Cronk, Upper Lhergydhoo, Isle of Man, 5-15th October 1981. Includes day-by-day accounts of sites visited and research work undertaken with comments on each site. Drawings included of sites/maps etc. for locations visited by Rynne. Manuscript maps of locations also separately included.

File 3: Typescript report by Etienne Rynne entitled "Excavation of Cist at The Cronk, Upper Lhergydhoo, Isle of Man", with attached map of site; Also a report entitled "The Cronk, Upper Lhergydhoo: Note on the Discovery of a Prehistoric Cist" by S. Creegan (1981); Press cuttings regarding news coverage in the Connacht Tribune of the excavations undertaken at the site in the Isle of Man by Etienne Rynne and team from UCG (20 Nov 1981) Correspondence regarding the excavations, the site, objects found and general comments made between Etienne Rynne and others including George Parker; Joe [Walsh]; Marshall Cubban; Aibhistín uasal Ó Murchadha; Sheila Cregan; Also flyers and tourist brochures for Douglas and Peel, Isle of Man.

File 4: Includes copy material, such as copies of correspondence from Arshall Cubbon to others at the British Library, discussing archaeological and historical materials relating to the Isle of Man and the site as excavated by Rynne and team. Includes copy research material and offprints of articles relating to funerary cist urns and related topics.

Prompt script of the Druid Theatre production of 'The Country Boy' written by John Murphy. Includes extensive manuscript annotation detailing stage management directions, sound and lighting cues, set and design information and related material.

Hardback A4 notebook with manuscript details of all costuming for characters in "The Country Boy" by John Murphy. Includes details of costume work during scene changes, position, readiness and tasks of costume/stage management staff regarding costume changes and other details.

Notes, handwritten and typed drafts with annotations, and the final copies of the essay 'The Burren Uplands - Crossing the Pass'.

File of research material, notes and articles by Etienne Rynne regarding The Book of Kells, its various components, parts, sections, composition and history. Includes pencil sketches and extensive notes and writings.