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Correspondence, mainly between Stephen O’Mara, Eamon de Valera and de Valera’s secretary Kathleen O’Connell, mainly relating to de Valera’s visits to Limerick, election campaigns, the rationalisation of the bacon industry, O’Mara’s missions to the USA and the Anti-Partition Fund. In a letter dated 19 January 1926, de Valera asks O’Mara to ‘Remember me to the authoress [Kate O’Brien] … She didn’t bargain for adventure other than those of the imagination, I am sure, when she got on board that train!’ In two folders.

Correspondence with Edward Francis Gormley, author and publisher. The letters contain in the main reviews of recent plays in Ireland and America and other news relating to the theatre. Gallivan also provides editorial advice on Gormley’s plays The Maud & Con Show with Willie (25 October 1991; for a script of the play see P30/1/2/6/2) and On the Trail of Don Quixote (October 1998). Regarding his own work, Gallivan discusses the Parnell series which has just been broadcast on radio (25 October 1991); his radio show on Shaw and the rewriting of ‘an old play of mine on Wilde’ (7 March 1992); the musical Oscar (28 March, 16 May and 16 June 1996; 10 June 2000); rejection of Doolittle’s Daughter (16 June 1996); the staging of The Stepping Stone (22 July and 3 September 1997); proposed publication of The Stepping Stone ( 20 October 1997 and 18 September 1998); difficulties in finishing a new play owing to illness (22 April 1998); uncertainty of My Time in Irish Travel (22 April and 9 December 1998); work on The Gallivans of Limerick (18 September 1998); and his radio play Beggar & Bloom (10 June 2000). There are also frequent references to Tim Pat Coogan and his literary activities, and to the political turmoil in Ireland in the 1990s: ‘What a bloody country. Between Celtic Tigers, Abject Poverty, tribunals, murder, drugs, tax evasion by the Banks and our magnificent Golden Circle I only wish I was forty years younger with the energy to do a play on it.’ (10 June 2000). Also see P30/1/2/6/3 and P30/5/1/5.

This sub-series contains business correspondence conducted between Ernest Proud Solicitors (later Little Ó hUadhaigh & Proud Solicitors) and members of the O'Mara family, mostly Stephen O'Mara junior. For additional correspondence with Ernest Proud Solicitor, see P40/1/2/2/4, P40/1/2/2/7, P40/1/2/2/12, P40/1/2/6/10 and P40/1/2/7/1.

Correspondence with George H. Kinmouth, Blackrock, Cork relating to a proposed fishing trip.

This sub-series contains letters from Gerard Gallivan to Yvonne McMurrough relating to the promotion of Gallivan's plays in Canada, the successes and failures of Gallivan's plays in Ireland, copyright matters, royalties, the progress of new plays Gallivan is writing and the publication of three collections of his plays.

Correspondence with John McDonnell, Editor, Ireland’s Own, North Main Street, Wexford, relating to the prospect of supplying work for the magazine.

Correspondence with Irish Bacon Curers’ Association, 22 Commercial Buildings, Dame Street, Dublin; James Ryan, Minister of Agriculture, Dublin; and Pig & Bacon Commission, 36 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, relating to difficulties experienced in obtaining an equitable distribution of available pigs and the uneconomic pig prices.

Correspondence with James (Jim) Ray concerning a dispute over private letters opened by Stephen O’Mara Junior by mistake; Ray’s failing health; and O’Mara’s offer for Ray to join the board of O’Mara Limited.

Correspondence with Jim Kemmy, his brother Joe Kemmy and companion Patsy Harrold. The letters relate to The Gallivans of Limerick, Jim Kemmy’s illness and death, and the posthumous publication of his Limerick Compendium.

Correspondence between Joan de Courcy née Behan, Herbert House, Ballsbridge, county Dublin and Stephen O’Mara, relating to her husband Harry de Courcy, nephew of Stephen O’Mara.