Files of letters with details referring to academic appointments and literary grants and prizes awarded to John McGahern. Letters include from John O' Donoghue, T.D. Minister for Arts Sports and Tourism (14 Aug 2003) with official confirmation of the appointment of John McGahern to the Arts Council of Ireland; Letter from O'Donoghue giving notice of McGahern's appointment to the Arts Council of Ireland [ ] Aug 2003; Letter to John McGahern from Mervyn Wall, Secretary, Arts Council of Ireland, informing McGahern that he has been awarded the Macauley Fellowship in Prose Fiction for 1964 (30 Jan 1964).
Letter from Robert W. Daniel, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, to McGahern, discussing the possibility of an academic posting for McGahern (6 May 1966); Letter from George Astley, the Phoenix Trust, London, awarding McGahern a grant £400 towards completion of current work (21 Oct 1968); Letter from [Julia Jones], Secretary, The Society of Authors, awarding McGahern the 1974 Travelling Scholarship Fund Award of £500 for 1974 (16 Dec 1974); Letter of contract from the Universities of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and Durham (Northern Arts) regarding the detail and terms of McGahern's Northern Arts Literary Fellowship (5 Mar 1974); Letter from the Arts Council of Great Britain with details of award of grant of £500 (21 June 1968); Letter from the Arts Council of Great Britain with news of grant to McGahern of £3,000 (6 Dec 1977); Letter from Cyril Clemens, Editor, Mark Twain Journal, with notice of election of McGahern as an honorary member of the Mark Twain Society in recognition of his writing in "The Leavetaking" (4 Dec 1975); Letter from John S. Morris, Provost, Dean of Faculty, Colgate University, New York, inviting McGahern to be the holder of the O'Connor Chair in Literature for academic year 1978-79, with terms of appointment (Note: for more on Colgate University, see files of correspondence to McGahern in Series 13 from colleagues at Colgate University); Text of [citation] on the award of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, made to McGahern by Colgate University (16 May 2004); Letter from David Marcus, Irish Press, accepting the story "Parachutes" for publication (27 Jan 1983); Letter from William V. Shannon, with news of American Irish Foundation Literary Award made to McGahern for 1985 (30 Apr 1985); Letter form John Nolan, Registrar, The National University of Ireland, Dublin, with news of award of Doctor of Literature by the NUI to McGahern (18 Nov 2003); Letter from Jean-Marie Planes to McGahern with news of award of the 1994 Squirrel prize for foreign literature, awarded during the Bordeaux Book Fair (16 Aug 1994); Letter from Marcel Ropert, Cultural Counsellor, French Embassy in Ireland, with notice of award of decoration of "Arts et Lettres" to McGahern (17 Jan 1991); Letter from Alexandre Defay, Cultural Counsellor discussion the award of "Chevalier des Arts et Lettres" awarded to McGahern in 1989 (14 June 1993); Letter from Arthur Flynn, Irish Pen, with news of award of Lifetime Achievement Award from Irish Pen to McGahern (8 Jun 2002); Letter from Clare Hogan, the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award, with news of nomination of "That They May Face The Rising Sun" for the IMPAC Award (20 Mar 1993); Letter from Matt Cain with news of nomination of "That They May Face The Rising Sun" for the South Bank Show Award for Literature (11 Dec 2002); Programme and seating plan from the honorary conferring of McGahern at Dublin City University; Letters from the Lannan Foundation updating McGahern that he has been awarded the Lannan Literary Award (Oct 2003); Letter from the Irish Academy of Letters, confirming McGahern's appointment as a member (22 Jan 1985); Letter from Liam Foran, inviting the McGaherns to attend the Leitrim People's Association Annual Dinner Dance (3 Jan 2006).
