Receipt from the Accountant of the Office of Public Works for the £3.4.8 by Thomas O'Conor Donelan, for repayments of improvement of lands.

Receipts of the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland to Thomas O'Conor Donelan of Sylane, Tuam, giving rent-charge and poor rate paid by Thomas on the various benefices which he now holds.

Form relating to a notice for application for fair rent by Francis John Lohan for lands in Trienbane leased by Dermot O'Conor Donelan from the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland. The form notes improvements made to the lands by the tenants.

Receipt from the pay-master of the Civil Services in Ireland for £28.3.1, as a half-yearly payment for the drainage scheme for Turloughmore district.

Receipt of payment from [ ], Tuam to D O'Connor for 1144 lbs. of wool at £54.15.4.

Envelope from John Daly's old established grocery, tea, wine and spirit warehouse.

Ink, colour washes and paper map entitled "a Rough Draft of Freenbanlough, Part of the estate of Thomas O'Conor Donelan", drawn up by James Byrne. The lands consist of bog and reclainable bog. The tenants are listed as Michael McDonough, Thomas Moylan, Patrick Leonard and John Brien.

Manuscript letters written by John McGahern to Sean Brehony, Galway over a period between 1962 and [1966]. The letters are written by McGahern from addresses such as 23 Forest Drive, London E. 11; 7 Powis Court, London, W.11; Almeira, Spain and also Helsinki, Finland. Letters are mainly personal in detail and discussion - topics relate to experiences of McGahern in and of the locations he is writing from. In one, he mentions "the book comes out May the 6th" and that he has sent a copy to Brehony but asks him not to loan it to anyone. Letter of 17 January 1966 discussing teaching and also adds that the B.B.C. hope to make a documentary "on the world of the Barracks and the Dark". These letters were received through the generosity of the Brehony family, Galway.

Letters from Kevin Barry, Professor of English, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG and formerly University College Galway/UCG). Letters include sending comments following broadcast of documentary about McGahern on Irish television and inviting the McGaherns to visit Barry at his home in Galway; letter from [ Aoife] , wife of Barry, to John McGahern and also offering comments on the documentary on McGahern, also a letter from Barry to McGahern with plans of upcoming visit by McGahern to the Cúirt Festival of Literature in Galway.

MS letters from George Mackay Brown, writing to John McGahern after reading "Getting Through", his book of short stories - "I think of you as the best writer of short stories in English today". A following letter thanks McGahern for sending Mackay Brown a copy of his latest book of stories and adds he hopes that McGahern will read in Orkney, Scotland, sometime.