File 6 - 'Secret Connemara' - Canadian Association of Irish Studies annual conference

3 folders (c. 200 pp and one audio casette).

Folder 1/3 Correspondence with Cecil Houston of Erindale College inviting Tim Robinson to present at the Canadian Association of Irish Studies Annual Conference (CAIS) under the theme The Haunted Ark. Subsequent correspondence making arrangements, and after the trip correspondence regarding late expense reimbursement (***). (Sep 1993 - Jan 1995).

Letter from C J Houston, Erindale College, University of Toronto encloses a list of Toronto and Canadian women's literature, and a photocopy of 'Toronto City and Suburb, A self-guided field trip of the urban landscapes of Toronto and Scarborough'. (Mar 1994).

Fax transmission from George Stoney to Tim Robinson relating to visas. (Dec 1994).

Folder 2/3 'Secret Connemara' (1994-1995). Preliminary notes and 3 drafts of 'Secret Connemara'. Notes to say the talk was given at 'Connemara National Park' (and a cassette recording of same), and also at the 1994 CAIS conference. The paper focussed on four Connemara people in the 19th century: the smuggler Captain Ó'Máilleach / George O'Malley, the priest and rebel Fr Myles Prendergast, the landlord's agent Robinson, and the folk poet Colm de Bhailís. The following year, the talk was reworked into a paper which he entitled 'Four Threads', two drafts of this included.

Folder 3/3 Tourist maps and brochures for Canada, early 1990s.

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P120/3/3/5/2 Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara & Other Writings

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