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Black and white photograph (90 x 115 mm) of Clare and Anne O’Mara playing with their toys on the grounds of Strand House, county Limerick. Similar to P12/5/1/96-97.

Black and white photograph (45 x 35 mm) of [Clare] and Kate O’Brien standing in the doorway of The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway, smiling at the camera. Similar to P12/5/1/69-70 and 72-73.

Black and white photograph (102 x 74 mm) of Clare, Nance, Kate and Michael O’Brien arranged on the steps of a statue of Christ on the grounds of Strand House, Limerick. Similar to P12/5/1/12-13.

Photocopy of a codicil to Kate O'Brien's will dated 14 January 1961 which bequeaths the property at 177 The Street, Boughton near Canterbury, Kent, to her sister Nance (Anne) O’Mara of New Strand House, Limerick, and in the event that her sister predecease her, to Anne’s son, Peter Joseph O’Mara of 25 Lanahrone Avenue, Corbally, Limerick. Signed by Kate O’Brien and witnessed by R. M. [---] and J. F. Vaughan, and contains the stamp of the National Bank Limited, Whitehall Branch.

Collection of mostly blank postcards with reproductions of art works, depicting religious scenes, portraits, and landscapes, and also images of locations in Ireland, France, Spain, Italy and Russia. Includes portrait of O’Brien as a young girl, images of the Madonna and Child, an image of Santa Teresa De Jesus, reproductions of works by Velasquez and Goya, the Casa de los Deanes at Avila, and views of Rome, Assisi and Santiago. In addition, contains images of locations in Ireland such counties Galway, Clare and Offaly, and of Boughton, Kent. Also includes a 1916 Commemoration Souvenir postcard with an image of the first Dáil.

Colour poster for the sixth annual conference of Canadian Association for Irish Studies, McGill University, listing a number of participants including Kate O’Brien.

Mainly correspondence relating to business of the council, including details regarding meetings of the council director, notes, interpreter charges, discussion topics such as the role of the writer in Europe, payment of annual contribution, list of delegates and newly elected presidency and council. Includes a letter in French to Kate O’Brien in Dublin from the secretary of Comunità Europea degli Scrittori, Clelia Guala, noting the following about her handwriting, ‘Giancarlo Vigorelli m’a prié de taper à la machine le texte de votre intervention, dont je vous remets ci-joint la photocopie. Malheureusement après la première page j’ai dû m’arrêter car je n’arrivai pas à comprendre votre écriture’ [‘Giancarlo Vigorelli asked me to type the text of your intervention, a photocopy of which I am sending you herewith. Unfortunately after the first page I had to stop because I couldn't understand your writing’] (3 September 1963). In addition, a letter from Kate O’Brien, 13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Clelia Guala stating ‘I have not been able to deliver those to lectures about our COMES doings, because I have been awaiting data from you, and did not dare report the Leningrad dialogue from memory: I have written some light articles, of cheerful but vague propaganda – not worth sending on to you. I am sending you an entirely irrelevant piece, about Moscow, which is in the current New Statesman – but only just to amuse you. It has nothing to do with COMES’ (7 January 1964). Also contains list of delegates attending assembly in Rome in October 1965, noting the following for Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh, Eileen MacCarvill, Kate O’Brien, Robert O’Driscoll, Desmond O’Grady and Lorna Reynolds, and a list of newly elected presidency and council of organisation in October 1965, with Kate O’Brien representing Ireland.

This sub-series contains material relating to Kate O'Brien's unfinished novel, Constancy.

This sub-series contains Kate O'Brien's contracts with publishers and some related correspondence.

This sub-series contains Kate O'Brien's personal correspondence with family members, friends and admirers