File of the latest and last research and notes by Kevin Boyle before his death on the topics of freedom of expression and freedom of religious belief in global issues. File 1 Includes manuscript notes and writings and a typed paper [by Boyle] with extensi

File relating to the Film Institute of Ireland Achievement Award, presented to Lelia Doolan on 9th Jan 1998. File includes letter from Doolan to Martha [ ] accepting "with strong feeling of unworthiness (and pride too) the honour of the Institute's award...."

File also includes invitation to the award event; Letters of congratulations sent to Lelia Doolan on the occasion of the award, received from Clare Duignan, Head of Independent Productions, RTÉ; Liam Miller, RTÉ; Bob Collins, Director General, RTÉ; Anne Marie and Carmel at the Irish Film Institute; Micheal Ó Meallaigh, Teilifís na Gaeilge; actor Gabriel Byrne. Plurabelle Films; Telegael Productions.

File of manuscript and typescript letters from Annikki Laaksi, first wife of John McGahern. Letters are all personal in detail and are written from Helsinki, Finland where stated. All relate to their relationship, marriage, time spent apart while McGahern was working in Hamilton, New York, family news and updates, visits with friends, travels, and later details and discussions regarding the breakdown of the marriage and later divorce.

File of manuscript and typescript letters between Kate O'Brien and Mary O'Malley. Includes discussion about O'Brien contributing works for publication to Threshold journal, published by O'Malley. "A Bus From Tivoli" was published in 1957. Further pieces for publication are discussed. Also discussed is O'Brien staying with the O'Malleys in Belfast as she is engaged for speaking events with the Alpha club and P.E.N.; she wished she had seen the recent production of The Voice of Shem, a stage-version of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, which Mary Manning adapted for the stage and which produced at the Lyric Theatre in 1958; sending congratulations to O'Malley on receiving an honorary degree from Queen's University Belfast and general warm regards between both parties. O'Brien writes from London and Roundstone, Co. Galway.

Files containing notes and drafts for stories, articles, lectures and newspaper cuttings. Includes the stories "An Chathair fa Thuinn" and a later version "An Baile fa Thuinn", "An tIasc Oir" and Cuasrd Laoghasci Mhic Chrimthinn go Maith Meall". Also a sh

File containing notes and correspondence relating to the meaning and use of certain words in Gaelic. There are several letters from An Doctuir Conchubhair Mac Guirdir, Clar Cloinne Muiris, Co. Maigheo, relating to medical terms in Irish. There are also no

Reports from Community Development Officers on their work and meetings that they conducted.

Twenty-three notebooks collating the information Tim Robinson gathered in his field research of Connemara. This mostly relates to his map work. Some of the notebooks have been indexed using letters, so this file is arranged in alphabetical rather than chronological order. The notebooks' contents, as described on the cover are transcribed below:

Connemara A: Griffith's Union of Galway (Killanin, Killcummin), Union of Oughterard, Altóir (wedge grave in Cashel), Petty's map names, Congested Districts Boards Reports for Knockboy, Ogygia, Lace Schools (undated).

Connemara B: Field Name Books for Moyrus, Killanin, Kilcummin, Hamilton Grave, Tower Ceann Gulam, Ros a Mhíl, Drawing of Tower Ros a Mhíl (undated).

Connemara C: Poems from Connemara Patrick Kelly (1879-1940), 1820 census, phone numbers (to Dec 1990).

D: Knockboy, Notes from Westropp lecture, MacGonigal biography, Derryinver cist, Caroline Blake 'Interrupted Wedding', notes on Clifden buidlings, rectors of Omey, Hyacinth Darcy memorial, references for Na Leachtaí, Knockboy, Leenane, Kylemore Abbey history, Glencraff, Leenane notes (Fr Costelloe), Nora Keane (Mám) notes, Willy Crawford (Mám) notes, Mary Keane, Mám Hotel Register, Salruck, Thompsons, Lettergesh placenames, Leenane Sketchmap (undated).

DD: Places on Errisbeg (O'Donnell), Notes on Mám Éan, Ballynahinch, L. Scaimhe crannógs, Galway Vindicator 1880, 1st edition OS maps of South Connemara, Blake Family records, Casement, William O'Malley Ballinfad, Moyard Graves (undated).

E: Ballynakill notes, D Wentworth Thomson on Inishlackan, Letterfrack sketchmap, Ballynafad graves and chapel, Captain O'Malley (notes from ms) Nov 1985.

G: OS Name Books Moyrus, IRA, Clifden area megaliths, 1981 census figures, D. Mac Giolla Easpaig's notes (undated).

Moyrus Bk 2 (Omey and Ross): T S Ó Máille's notes, Irish Architecture Archive photos (undated).

H: OS Name Books Ballynakill continued, Omey. Galway Archaeological Survey checklist, notes from the northern sheets of the OS 6 inch 1st edition maps, lighthouses, Redington Inishbofin wreck (Undated).

J: Ó Máille's Den, Berridges Ledgers (from April 1987).

K: Wakeman in West of Ireland, Land Commission Records, Dela McAuley, O'Donovan, Petrie, App to 10th report of Irish Fisheries 1829 (undated).

Connemara c. 1984: drawings of tombstones and phone numbers.

Connemara July 1986: Errislannan.

Connemara 1991: Four Masters on Aran, and Tallaght Martyrology on Enda, 1821 Census, Kilmurvey House (see P120/3/1/1).

Fieldwork notes: OS Field Name Book for Ross Parish, Moyriss, Kilcummin Parish (undated).

Fieldwork notes: Mullaghglass (undated).

Fieldwork notes: Townlands in Parishes of Kilcummin, Killannin, Cong and Ross (undated).

Fieldwork notes: Kilcummin Parish (Moycullen Barony) undated.

St Enda, Gleann Oidhreach alignment (undated).

The Blakes of Tully, Micheál Bairéad (Irish and English) undated.

Inis Leacan '04, and Inis Ní Houses (c. 2004).

UCD folklore collection, Derryclare lichens, Marconi site flora, Derryclare notes, Connemara marble notes (c. 2005).

Scrap notebook containing lists of art work, phone numbers etc.

Files of manuscript field notebooks kept by Etienne Rynne and which feature manuscript notes and drawings by Rynne of various archaeological artefacts and objects.

File of manuscript field notebooks kept by Etienne Rynne. Each book contains drawings and sketches as well as descriptions of landmarks and archaeological excavations from around Ireland.