File 25 - Literature in Ireland / Bound Photographic and Document Volume

Letter from Michael McLaverty Daniel Corkery lecture in Tralee, County Kerry Peadar O’Donnell Last Days of James Joyce / ‘A nightmare to which I hope never to awaken’ ‘Irish Times’ editorial on the death of James Joyce ‘The Perfect Essayist: Robert Lynd’ Profile of Mary Isabel Leslie (‘Temple Lane’) Pádraic Ó Conaire Statue, Eyre Square, Galway First Christmas by Aodh de Blacam Letter from Ada Chesterton
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IE CA CP/3/16/25

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Literature in Ireland / Bound Photographic and Document Volume

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  • c.1900-c.1950 (Creation)

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160 pp; 37 cm x 26 cm; Bound volume, manuscript, printed, and photographic print

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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)

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A bound volume with a manuscript annotation on spine which reads ‘Literature in Ireland’. The volume contains original letters from several prominent authors, artists and public figures. Includes correspondence from Francis MacManus, Seán Ó Faoláin, Mary MacSwiney, Maurice Walsh, Daniel Corkery, Patrick Kavanagh, William Magennis, Seosamh Mac Grianna, Michael McLaverty, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Helena Concannon, John Desmond Sheridan, and Kathleen O’Brennan. The volume also contains newspaper and magazine clippings, printed ephemera, review material, and photographs relating to prominent Irish artists and writers. There are many clippings in the volume which assess and critique the writings of James Joyce. The material is extant in an ‘Walker’s Century Scrap & Newscutting’ volume.

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  • English
  • Irish

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The volume is in poor condition. The end covers are partially detached and several of the pages are loose and frayed. Careful manual handling is required.

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