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Handwritten draft of article on Kate O’Brien by Mary O’Neill in pencil and ink consisting of numbered points addressing her date and place of birth, family, career, civil and academic distinctions, and other matters. Also contains further information in pencil.

Draft of text in pencil by Mary O’Neill addressing Kate O’Brien’s early life, education, work in England and Spain, marriage to Gustaff Renier, literary work, move to Roundstone, county Galway, and then to Kent, and other travels.

Typescript draft of an essay entitled ‘Boney Fidey’, which begins ‘When we were small, my brothers and I, they used to hire a person to Look after us during the holidays.’ Paginated and dated, with address at The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway.

Manuscript draft of an essay entitled ‘Colour in Poetry’.

Photocopy of a handwritten draft of an essay entitled 'Half Forgotten' by Kate O’Brien. Also see P12/149.

Handwritten draft of an essay in a notebook and prologue, which begins: ‘I do not remember that short period of my life in which I could not read…’. Contains amendments in pencil and ink. A handwritten heading on the cover reads ‘Manuscript Half-Forgotten by Kate O’Brien.’ In addition, there is a sticker with the address of Mary O’Neill at 24A Steele’s Road, Hampstead, London NW3 4RE. Paginated.

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.

Typescript draft of an essay entitled ‘Old Balls MacSweeney’, which begins: ‘We lived on the skirt of Limerick City, in a fine and large brick house.’ Paginated and records address at The Fort, Roundstone, county Galway.

Manuscript draft of an essay entitled ‘The State of the Liberal Arts in the University’. Paginated. Lacking p. 7.

Typescript draft of an essay entitled ‘Thirty Years of Irish Letters’ by Lorna Reynolds, with occasional handwritten corrections. The essay was published in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review vol. 40, no. 160 (December 1951), pp. 457-468.