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Teresa of Avila
IE 2135 P12/2/1/5/1 · sub-series · 1967
Part of The Kate O'Brien Papers

This sub-series contains material relating to Kate O'Brien's biography Teresa of Avila, first published in 1951.

O'Brien, Kate (1897-1974), writer
Terence Dunne & Co.
IE 2135 P81/14 · File · 1921
Part of The John McCarthy Business Collection

Invoices for goods sold to John McCarthy by Terence Dunne & Co., Merchants and Manufacturers, 20 & 21 Talbot Street, Dublin. Also a letter notifying McCarthy that his account has exceeded the limit of reasonable credit and seeking payment of same.

McCarthy, John (1885-1966), Irish traditional musician
IE 2135 P74/1/3/6/3/8 · File · [c. 1980-1985?]
Part of The Lorna Reynolds Papers

A tentative contents list for a Kate O’Brien biography. Also a paginated manuscript draft of a preface to a biography of Kate O’Brien with handwritten amendments and corrections; also pages 107, 109-111, 112 (twice), 115-116, 117 (twice), 118, 123, 128 and an un-paginated page of similar nature, written in the first person from Reynolds’ perspective. Also a manuscript draft beginning with ‘I met Kate O’Brien for the first time in 1946 at a dinner given in her honour in Dublin by The Women Writers’ Club’ and the first page of a heavily amended typescript of same. Also a manuscript page beginning with the line ‘These first months when I got to know Kate O’Brien I discovered an amusing side to her disposition…’ These highly personalised recollections may have been an attempt at a biography, abandoned in favour of the more formal and impersonal work, Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait.

Reynolds, Lorna Teresa (1911-2003), academic and poet