Handwritten notes with costs, and quotes from several printing companies with the cost of setting and printing the manuscript 'Mapping South Connemara'. This file includes a specification of the print order.
Manuscript
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Copy letter from Robinson to Gerry Cloherty (Connacht Tribune) enclosing a draft layout for Mementos of Mortality, and seeking a quote for printing. Two replies from John O'Donnell (Connacht Tribune) providing quotations. (7-26 Sep 1990).
British Library Bibliographic Services, cataloguing information to include in their publication, with ISBN and Dewey Decimal number. (26 Sep 1990).
Letter to Robinson from Anthony Farrell (Lilliput) giving advice on printing. (11 Dec 1990).
Copy letter from Robinson to Anne Yeats seeking permission to use Jack Yeats' 'An Island Horseman' in the publication. (16 Aug 1991).
Printed notice of cases to be heard by the Court of the Land Commission for the Union of Tuam, relating to the Woodquay cases. Tenants include Mary McHugh, John Higgins, Mary Fleming, James Hynes, Patrick Horan, Michael Moran, Thomas Brennan, Patrick Boyle, John Roach, William Gilmore, Patrick Donelan, Pat Fenaughty, John Finegan and Patrick Donelan. Columns include name of tenants, landlord, Union, Electoral Division, name of lands, acreage, rent and poor law valuation.
Printed notice of cases to be heard by the Court of the Land Commission for the Union of Tuam, relating to the Woodquay cases. Tenants include Mary McHugh, John Higgins, Mary Fleming, James Hynes, Patrick Horan, Michael Moran, Thomas Brennan, Patrick Boyle, John Roach, William Gilmore, Patrick Donelan, Pat Fenaughty, John Finegan and Patrick Donelan. Columns include name of tenants, landlord, Union, Electoral Division, name of lands, acreage, rent and poor law valuation.
Printed copy of the cases to be heard before the Court of the Land Commission for the Union of Tuam Cases involving Dermot O'Conor Donelan include those with James Joyner and William Shaughnessy in the electoral division of Tuam, and with Thomas Hopkins, Michael Lynot, Michael Fallon and Edward Kenny in the electoral division of Cairowrevagh.
Folder 1: Letter from Marie Heaney, Commissioning Editor of 'Town House and Country House', inviting Robinson to write an essay on a topic that has given him spiritual sustenance for a book called 'Sources' in aid of Focus Ireland. Robinson's submission is included - handwritten and typed, on the sequence of prime numbers.
Folder 2: Correspondence with Dr John Cosgrave from the Department of Mathematics at St Patrick's College in Drumcondra who discovered a Prime Number with 2,000 digits. Folding Landscapes published 'A Prime for the Millennium', and the file discusses the publication, their mutual love of mathematics, press cuttings about the project, and a letter from John Banville declining to launch the book on the grounds of his fluency in mathematics.
Copies of press releases announcing Folding Landscapes as the winner of first the National (Irish) Ford Conservation Awards, and a year later, the European winner .
Photocopies of reports in the press, and two official photographs of Tim and Máiréad Robinson being presented with the award, photographed with Edwin J. Nolan (Chairman and Managing Director of Ford), An Taoiseach Charles J Haughey, and members of the Irish judging panel William Finlay, Éamon de Buitléar and Dr Maurice Craig.
Ireland's official report on European Year of the Environment (21 Mar 1987-20 Mar 1988).
A folder, 'Galway Bay Landscapes', containing the following publications: 'Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara' (pamphlet), the published maps of Árainn and the Burren, and 'Mapping South Connemara'.
Printed press release announcing the publication of 'Connemara After the Famine, The Journal of a Survey of the Martin Estate' by Thomas Colville Scott.
Letter to Robinson from Seán Browne, Regional Manager of Shannonside, The Mid-Western Regional Tourism Organisation Ltd congratulating him on the first copy of the Burren map, and making arrangements for a press launch. Copy reply from Robinson asking for approximately a dozen people from the Burren and the Ordnance Survey to be included in arrangements for the launch.