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Draft Green Alliance submission to the New Ireland Forum, with related notes.

This sub-series contains handwritten drafts of children’s stories, mostly unattributed but presumably by Condell.

This sub-series contains drafts of some of Tom Nestor's radio plays, short stories, novels and articles.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of a lecture relating to Lugaid Mac Con, the legendary High King of Ireland, delivered by Looney to An Clan MacCon at Kilcoran Lodge Hotel, Cahir, county Tipperary in June 1986. With related research material, including correspondence and photocopied extracts from books. Also handwritten notes on the related figure of Cormac Mac Art; Mac Con and Mac Art genealogies; and the way clan names were formed in prehistoric times. Also see P43/3/2/4/12.

Drafts of a sermon delivered by John Heffernan at Moycarkey, county Tipperary on 8 May 1927.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of an article ‘Sracfhéachaint ar Logainmneacha Baile Átha Cliath’ published in Studia Hibernica No. 15 (1975). With a related bibliography, research notes and correspondence. Includes notes for an excursion to townlands of interest in the Dublin area in 1971. In Irish.

Drafts of Chapter 4 of The Round House O’Malleys, containing an account of the lives of Denis O’Malley, his wife and their children.

Hardback notebook labelled ‘II Over the Border’ containing handwritten draft of part of the novel Sons of the Swordmaker beginning upside down from the back. Opens: ‘In their own time the numerous stories of the sword fights’ (pages 1-29). Also contains draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Thirty Pieces of Copper (11-14 September 1935), pages 1-8; draft of the short story Over the Border (begun 8 October 1934), beginning at the front with chapter one and continuing on right hand pages, 1-49; draft of the short story Prudent Dan (14-30 October 1935), pages 1-28; draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Canary Bird (pages 1-10); untitled piece beginning: ‘This “Somewhere to the Sea” is a novel about Dublin by a Dublin man’ (2 pages). Alterations. Each text is paginated separately.

Loose pages from notebooks with handwritten draft of most of the novel The Man in Brown upside down on the ‘back’. Handwritten drafts of parts of The Road to Nowhere, on the ‘front’ of the text, described as ‘Nameless at present’ and beginning: ‘South by east the early sun’ (pages 1-42); further on, section beginning: ‘Ch. VII’ opening: ‘Two hours had elapsed before Paddy Joe appeared…’ (pages 55-127). ‘Front’ also contains partial draft of the short story The Red Girl (pages 8-27) beginning: ‘…of laughter. Mickeen Oge drank his glass of stout quickly’; and complete draft of the same story (pages 1-46), finished 27 April 1932. The draft of novel The Man in Brown begins ‘Chapter I – Choose Your Murderer’ which opens: ‘The big, loosely built man lounged back in his cane chair’. Alterations. Each text is paginated separately.