Postcard from Mike who is travelling in China, to Boyle, addressed at Newry, Co. Down. It is "like no other place anywhere. It has certainly renewed my faith in people and revolution."
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Ms postcard from 'P' to Mary Rynne, Greenfields, Milltown Road, Dublin, 4 Jun [ ]. Opens with "Kate is said to have bought the house in Roundstone. Mary Laverty and Ethel Mannion [are] other authors in the district." - Also adds the house is believed to be haunted.
Postcard from Patrick O'Mara, featuring an image of the Arno and the Bridge of the Holy Trinity in Firenze.
Manuscript postcard to Michael Rynne at 43 Pembroke Road, written in Irish, mentioning notice of upcoming meeting and relating information.
CVs of potential members (Mary Robinson, Anthony Lester, Ian Stewart Forrester, Professor Mario P. Chiti, Professor Jacqueline De La Rochere, Bernhard Gomard and James O'Reilly) and list of names and numbers.
A set of index cards outlining briefly some of the local features of the townland of Poundcartron, [Cartrún an Phóna]. Included are descriptions of Cúlóg, Tigh Bairín, Éadan Bán, Sián, a row of four milk-white quartz boulders known as Stone Row, and a Fulacht Fiadh.
Tim Robinson's handwritten notes on J M Synge's time in Aran. Notes taken from a reading of Robert Skelton's 'J M Synge and his World'. Notes on Synge's usage of marriage themes, the Celtic Twilight, on his notebook, the subjects not covered by Synge in his work, and on Synge as a man island. Some examples of Robinson's immediately recognisable doodles framing some pages.
Pre-publication copy of 'Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage' with some handwritten notes on page alignment and preliminary information.
Three copies of Tim and Máiréad Robinson's presentation to the Ford European Conservation Prize Jury in Madrid.
A statement of the Folding Landscape project;
Statement to the Jury 'The Dolphin in its Wave' (one with handwritten edits);
Bibliography of Folding Landscape's early publishing history and list of awards;
The Aran and Burren maps;
Review of the Árainn map by David Ward;
Book jacket for 'Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage';
Synopsis, review, and copy of the of 'Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara' pamphlet;
Synopsis, review and copy of 'Mapping South Connemara';
Synopsis and copy of 'The View from Errisbeg' and 'The Burren Uplands', two essays written for 'The Book of the Irish Countryside';
Outline of Folding Landscape's intended map of Connemara, due for publication in Spring 1988, and mockups of the cover to the map and companion to the map;
Sample of the companion text to accompany the upcoming Connemara map, and extracts from an essay about the map;
Synopsis and extracts from his forthcoming monograph on Cenotaphs and Funerary Cairns of Árainn (later published as Mementos of Mortality);
Synopsis and extracts from 'Space, Time and Connemara' and an accompanying photograph (3 different photographs in each of the folders);
Note about the archives accumulated by Folding Landscapes, listing their subject headings, and photocopies of some of their content by means of example - includes a statement of intention to computerise this information to facilitate public reference to them.
There are some slight differences between the folders, and the 2nd folder also includes a copy of an application for a grant from the American Ireland Fund.
File of press cuttings dating from 1 January 1998 to 1 July 2005 reporting on the Clifden Airport proposal. Connacht Tribune, The Irish Times, The Galway Advertiser, The Connemara Press, Glór Chonamara, Foinse, and Wings (Birdwatch Ireland's journal).
The final cutting in the series is from the Connacht Tribune, 1 July 2005 reporting on the signing of the contract to develop an airstrip for Inishbofin.