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Loose pages from notebooks with handwritten draft of most of the novel The Man in Brown upside down on the ‘back’. Handwritten drafts of parts of The Road to Nowhere, on the ‘front’ of the text, described as ‘Nameless at present’ and beginning: ‘South by east the early sun’ (pages 1-42); further on, section beginning: ‘Ch. VII’ opening: ‘Two hours had elapsed before Paddy Joe appeared…’ (pages 55-127). ‘Front’ also contains partial draft of the short story The Red Girl (pages 8-27) beginning: ‘…of laughter. Mickeen Oge drank his glass of stout quickly’; and complete draft of the same story (pages 1-46), finished 27 April 1932. The draft of novel The Man in Brown begins ‘Chapter I – Choose Your Murderer’ which opens: ‘The big, loosely built man lounged back in his cane chair’. Alterations. Each text is paginated separately.

Hardback notebook ‘supplied for the public service’ and labelled: ‘Face of Stone. Thirty Pieces of Copper. Prudent Dan. Thomasheen James and the Canary Bird’. Some pages have been removed and some are loose. Contains handwritten draft of the short story Thomasheen James and the Thirty Pieces of Copper which begins: ‘Thomasheen James was poor; he was as poor as a church mouse’ (pages 1-10). Also draft of the short story Face of Stone (24-29 October 1935) which begins: ‘In their own time, the rumours of the sword-fights of Urnal’ (pages 1-33); draft of Thomasheen James and the Canary Bird (14-21 January 1936) which begins: ‘“Begor!”, said Thomasheen James, his head through the French window’ (pages 1-12); draft of Thomasheen James and the Professor (26 February-4 March 1937) which begins: ‘“You are going to miss that bus”…’ which continues upside down from the back (pages 1-19); on the inside of front cover a piece ‘From “The Lectures of Professor John Fletcher”’ beginning: ‘The geologists insist that no civilisation’. Alterations. Each piece paginated separately.

Black and white negative of the Drama group at St Senans in Shannon.

Black and white negative of Draper Erin in Limerick.

Black and white negative spares of Draper Erin in Limerick.

Black and white negative of Draper Erin in Limerick.

Black and white negative of Draper Erin in Limerick.

Black and white negative of Draper Erin, [Corcanree] Industrial Estate.

Black and white negative spares of Draper Erin, [Corcanree] Industrial Estate.

Black and white negative of the Shannon An Tóstal Council meeting. Negative missing.