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A short, handwritten essay about the Irish national anthem.

Lorna Reynolds. ‘Collective Intellect: Yeats, Synge and Nietzsche’. Extracted from Essays and Studies, 1973.

Typescript galley draft of an essay entitled ‘Collective Intellect: Yeats, Synge and Nietsche’ by Lorna Reynolds, published in Essays and Studies (1973). With handwritten corrections. Pagination. Also an offprint of same.

Typescript of essay/article entitled ‘Ireland – America – and the war: Maurice Walsh hits back’. Pagination.

Manuscript draft of an essay entitled ‘James Joyce – Dedicated Artist’. Also an incomplete typed version of same.

Typescript essay entitled ‘Silly Like Us’ by Lorna Reynolds and Robert O’Driscoll, with minor handwritten corrections. Pagination.

Essay entitled ‘St Francis Xavier’ by Kate O’Brien printed from the Catholic Information Network website. Also see P76/2/2/13 and P76/3/1/9.

Typescript essay entitled ‘The Problem of Yeats’s Marching Songs’ by Stipe Grgas of the Department of English in Zadar, [Croatia]. The essay appears to have been a precursor to ‘Yeats’s Marching Songs’ published in Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia XLIII (1998), pp. 173-180.

Typescript essay entitled ‘The University Student’. The essay discusses the growing lack of self-confidence among students and the importance of stretching their minds ‘beyond what seems their capacities’. Knowledge, Reynolds observes, is not ‘something to be poured into them’, because ‘The human mind … has to unfold not to be filled’.

Essay in booklet form entitled Counting Capital: The Real Value of Dance in Irish Society, written by dance critic Michael Seaver and commissioned by Dance Ireland. The booklet was the first in a planned series of events leading up to Dance Ireland’s 21st anniversary celebrations in 2013. The essay includes a reference to Fearghus Ó Conchúir, who is also portrayed on the front cover dancing in Dublin’s Docklands.