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The Shorter Poems of Walter Savage Landor. Selected and edited by J. B. Sidgwick. Cambridge: University Press, 1946. Signed on the flyleaf ‘Kate O’Brien March 1947’ and ‘Given to Lorna Reynolds Dec. 1947’.

Dylan Thomas, Deaths and Entrances. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1947. With dust jacket.

Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House and other Short Stories. London: The Hogarth Press, 1943. With dust jacket.

Programme of a performance of Kate O’Brien’s play The Bridge at the Arts Theatre Club, London on 31 May 1927.

Programme of performances of Distinguished Villa by Kate O’Brien and The Wooing of Julia Elizabeth by James Stephens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 27 January 1929.

Booklet in Italian comprising a biography of the Italian artist Sergio Romiti by Francesco Arcangeli, with a related insert depicting one of his works of art.

Booklet entitled 'The Literature of Politics: – The Politics of Literature: Abstracts vol. I: Arndt-McCabe' relating to the 1991 Leiden Iasail conference.

Bound hardback scrapbook off 66 pages containing press cuttings [collected by Mary O'Neill] relating to Kate O’Brien and her play The Distinguished Villa. With seven loose inserts of further press cuttings on the same topic.

Press cuttings mainly relating to Irish theatre. One item in Italian. One item is a photocopy.

Press cuttings relating to Lorna Reynolds, including her bid for the chair of English at UCD; her poem ‘Travelling and Waiting’ published in the Irish Times on 9 August 1969; the 1970 Eyrecourt Festival, where Reynolds acted as one of the adjudicators at the fancy dress competition; her appearance in a Thomas Davis lecture on Radio Eireann in which she spoke on Irish Romantic poets between 1850 and 1900; her visit to the Bodleian Library to see the Book of Birr in 1980; the ‘Speaking from the Past’ exhibition at Birr Castle co-curated by Reynolds in 1983; and her views on women and society on the eve of the 1992 abortion referendum.