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Manuscript draft of an essay entitled ‘Nora Barnacle’; possibly a draft of an article of the same name published in the Dublin Review.

Typescript draft of a talk entitled ‘The Imagination in Exile’, delivered by Kate O’Brien on Radio Éireann in the ‘Present State of Ireland’ series on 20 March 1947; with handwritten amendments and corrections. Pagination. Signed by Kate O’Brien on the last page.

Folder containing a typescript draft of Kate O’Brien’s film script Mary Magdalen with a related letter and guidance notes from Two Cities Films Ltd.

Assorted typescript and manuscript fragments of documents by Reynolds relating to Kate O’Brien’s published works.

Offprint of ‘The Image of Spain in the Novels of Kate O’Brien’ by Lorna Reynolds, originally published in Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, vol. 3: National Images and Stereotypes, edited by Wolfgang Zach and Heinz Kosok, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, [c. 1987], pp. 181-188. The paper was based on Reynolds’ presentation at the Kate O’Brien literary seminar in Limerick in 1984, for which see P74/1/3/6/3/9.

Letter from Michael O’Toole, Portmarnock to Lorna Reynolds relating to a talk on Teresa of Avila given by Kate O’Brien to Kilkenny Literary Society in 1960; review by Michael O’Toole of Alphonsus de Liguori: The Saint of Burbon Naples 1696-1787 by Frederick M. Jones, containing a reference to Kate O’Brien; letter from Michael O’Toole enclosing an anecdote relating to Kate O’Brien received from a reader of his newspaper column; and a handwritten note by Reynolds with reference to O’Toole.

Photocopy of a letter from Kay [O’Brien] to her cousin Donough [O’Brien], thanking him for a taped interview of Kate O’Brien and commenting on its contents.

Typescript draft of an essay entitled ‘Kate O’Brien: Artist and Unprofessed Feminist’, subsequently published as ‘Kate O’Brien: Artist and Feminist’ in With Warmest Love: Lectures for Kate O’Brien, 1983-1994 edited by John Logan (Limerick, 1994). Also a second copy of the draft with extensive corrections and lacking first page.

This sub-series contains mainly essays and drafts of essays by Lorna Reynolds and others relating to John Millington Synge, Edith Somerville and Violet Ross and contemporary writers personally known to Reynolds.

Manuscript draft of a talk on the poet Denis Devlin and his friends Brian Coffey and Niall Montgomery. Pagination, but lacking last page(s). Also manuscript notes on Devlin’s poem ‘The Heavenly Foreigner’ (note that the pages may not be in the correct order).