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Colour photograph (125 x 90 mm) of a wooden chair in a garden with notes in ink on the back relating to measurements of some of Kate O’Brien’s furniture. Also notes her address in Boughton.

Black and white photograph (115 x 70 mm) of a woman with a child on her lap in a garden.

This sub-series contains material relating to Kate O'Brien's novel, Without My Cloak, published in 1931.

Publication by Kate O’Brien entitled Without My Cloak with the subheading ‘In this chronicle of the family founded by John Considine, masterful, self-made Irishman, are brilliantly revealed the ambitions and passions which governed this turbulent breed. This book was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1932’. The book was first published in 1931 and then in 1949 by Penguin Books. Contains the signature of Elizabeth Hall on the first page.

Photocopy of a typescript draft of introduction to Kate O’Brien’s novel Without My Cloak by Desmond Hogan, which begins: ‘It has always seemed to me that there are two languages in Irish literature…’. Paginated.

Photocopy of a printed newspaper article entitled ‘Why the Rage for French Films?’ for The Star, which begins: ‘Anyone wanting to go to a movie in London at present will be hard put to it to avoid going to a French movie.’

Black and white photograph (57 x 87 mm) of a view of Roundstone, county Galway, from Kate O’Brien’s garden in The Fort, consisting of the bay and mountains in the distance. A note on the back by Kate O’Brien reads ‘Roundstone – the bays & the Twelve Bens – from my garden. K. O’B.’

Black and white photograph (86 x 59 mm) of a view of Roundstone, county Galway, from Kate O’Brien’s garden in The Fort, consisting of a number of trees, with the sea and some houses in the distance. A note on the back by Kate O’Brien reads ‘Roundstone from my garden – K. O’B.’.

This sub-series contains untitled essays by Kate O'Brien.

Photocopy of typescript of a lecture in English for University of Valladolid, Spain, entitled ‘The Writing of Imaginative Prose in Ireland Since 1800’ and which begins: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, (There will be here an eloquent passage in Spanish. so as correctly to salute whatever prelates and professors, etc., may be my hosts and introducers.)’ Paginated with amendments in ink. Also see P12/2/1/4/14.