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This sub-series contains letters from the Irish University Press mainly concerning paperback rights.

This sub-series includes Kate O'Brien's correspondence with broadcasting bodies.

This sub-series contains letters to Kate O'Brien from Radio Éireann.

Letter to Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, from Patrick [---], Radio Telefís Éireann, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, asking if she believes £100 plus half this amount for the repeat an acceptable fee for a production of Guy Vaesen’s adaptation of Pray for The Wanderer. In addition, he enquires about possibility of a 25-minute script about Teresa of Avila for the Treasure House series.

This sub-series includes Kate O'Brien's correspondence with literary organisations.

File containing letters to Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, regarding eligibility for a pension under the Royal Literary Fund. Includes a letter from Victor Bonham-Carter, Secretary of Royal Literary Fund, 11, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C. 4, which announces ‘I am glad to be able to inform you that at its Meeting today my Committee decided to award you a pension of £400 a year for five years’ (13 January 1971). One letter is torn in to pieces and remains in its envelope (26 November 1970).

Mainly letters to Kate O’Brien from a range of bodies including The Alpha Club, Belfast; Artists and Writers’ Cookbook, Los Angeles; Cività Delle Macchine, Rome; Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; Salvat Editores, S.A., Barcelona; La Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid; Society of Authors, London; Edwards-Mac Liammóir, Dublin Gate Theatre Productions Limited; and Irish Academy of Letters. Includes letter from Dorothy Evans, Honorary Secretary of The Alpha Club, 14 Donegal Square West, Belfast, to Kate O’Brien, Strand House, Limerick, with details on talk to be delivered by her, stating ‘You ask what type of audience. The majority are married women with varied interests and some quite intellectual, very rarely any men’ (1 June 1960). Also a letter to Kate O’Brien, 177 The Street, Boughton, Faversham, Kent, from Dalmiro de la Válgoma Díaz-Valera, La Real Academia de la Historia, Léon 21, Madrid 14, Spain, noting a forthcoming publication based on opinions of foreigners about Santiago de Compostela, and requesting permission to include a number of passages from Farewell Spain, and also to reproduce Mary O’Neill’s drawing of the Hospital de Santiago (9 December 1970). Also a letter from Micheál Mac Liammóir, director of Edwards-Mac Liammóir, Dublin Gate Theatre Productions Limited, 4 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin 2, referring to his own health: ‘…I am always thinking of you. Even when weighed down by the most depressing bug ever known to man or woman since Pandora opened that box – a sorting of creeping compromise between a plain foul cold in the head and what I strongly suspect of being leprosy’ (22 December 1973).

This sub-series includes Kate O'Brien's correspondence concerning educational projects, mainly to do with Irish studies.

This series contains press cuttings relating to Kate O'Brien, including her newspaper columns, published poems and reviews of her books. Also included in this series are press cuttings on various subjects collected by Kate O'Brien and obituaries and other related press cuttings published after her death.

Scrapbook containing press cuttings of mainly reviews of Kate O’Brien’s work including the novels Without My Cloak and The Ante-Room and her play The Bridge. Also an article by Kate O’Brien in The Daily Mirror entitled ‘Have Music-Halls Been ‘Killed’?’ (7 July 1928), and a number of articles on her winning the Hawthornden Prize. In addition, articles by other writers such as ‘The Settee’ by Mary Rynne (13 October 1928) and reviews of works by other authors such as Beside the Sea edited by Yvonne Cloud (1 August 1934). Paginated and most articles are dated.