Loose-leaf early draft of Mourn the Ivy Leaf for the stage, with extensive handwritten corrections and alterations. Acts 2 and 4 are written by hand.
Gallivan, Gerard Patrick (1920-2003), Irish playwrightEarly loose-leaf draft of The Gallivans of Limerick, being a history of the Gallivan family from the 1920s to 1952. The draft comprises the main body of the text; a list of omissions and additions; genealogical charts; and photocopies of birth, marriage and death certificates, census forms of 1901 and 1911, press cuttings relating to family members and a photocopy of Gallivan’s article, ‘Memories of Henry Street’, published in the Limerick Chronicle No. 18, 1987.
Gallivan, Gerard Patrick (1920-2003), Irish playwrightEarly draft of The Sound of Thomond, partly typed and partly handwritten, consisting of loose sheets of typing paper pasted onto the pages of an exercise book. With extensive handwritten corrections and amendments. Pagination.
Gallivan, Gerard Patrick (1920-2003), Irish playwrightBound photocopy of an early draft of The Wilde Lady for the stage (for part of which see P30/1/2/1/50/2) in hard covers. Marked on the first page ‘Early version. Discarded and rewritten 1992.’
Gallivan, Gerard Patrick (1920-2003), Irish playwrightItems clipped together with a note ‘Early FOE Dublin leaflets & statements’, containing a poster promoting an alternative technology workshop; pro forma letter addressed to The Secretary, Wexford County Council, Town Hall, Wexford, objecting to the granting of outline planning permission for a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point; blank petition form for an independent public enquiry into the proposal ‘to go nuclear’; assorted fact sheets relating to nuclear power, the cost of electricity generation in the UK, the Rasmussen report on reactor safety and alternative energy sources; assorted press statements relating to FOE and its activities, the proposal to build a nuclear power plant at Carnsore Point, and an error in the Government’s recent green paper on energy policy; and photocopies of three reports relating to nuclear power and energy policy.
Dalby, Simon, Professor EmeritusEarly manuscript draft of the memoirs of Madge Daly providing an account of events in Ireland from c. 1899 to 1940. Paginated (169 pp.), with extensive handwritten corrections and insertions of additional text on loose sheets.
Daly Family of Limerick CityThis sub-series contains research material pertaining to early modern and modern Irish history.
Looney, Timothy (Tim) (1914-1990), local historianThis sub-series contains correspondence and other material relating to Stephen O'Mara Junior's early political career.
O'Mara family of Strand House, LimerickEarly bound soft-cover script of the stage version of Beggar & Bloom, with occasional handwritten corrections and alterations.
Gallivan, Gerard Patrick (1920-2003), Irish playwrightBlack and white negative of the East African Airways Comet Jet plane. Negative missing.
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