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Table of Contents

Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3

Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4

Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................... 4

Biographical note ........................................................................................................................................... 5

Scope & Content note .................................................................................................................................... 6

Arrangement ................................................................................................................................................... 6

Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 8

I: Biographical ............................................................................................................................................. 8

II: Collected ................................................................................................................................................. 8

III: Correspondence ..................................................................................................................................... 9

IV: Editing ................................................................................................................................................. 15

V: Financials .............................................................................................................................................. 16

VI: Photographs ......................................................................................................................................... 16

VII: Presenting ........................................................................................................................................... 17

VIII: Teaching ........................................................................................................................................... 27

IX: Writing ................................................................................................................................................ 27

X: Works by others ................................................................................................................................... 37

Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016

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Summary Information

Creator: Dawe, Gerald, 1952-

Title: Gerald Dawe papers

Collection Identifier: MS.2000.016

Date [inclusive]: 1952-2019

Date [bulk]: 1980-2019

Physical Description 24 Linear Feet (50 containers)

Physical Description 365 Gigabytes (87 files with approximately 49 hours of audiovisualrecordings)

Language of theMaterial:

English and German.

Abstract: The papers document the career of twentieth and twenty-first centuryIrish author Gerald Dawe as a poet, essayist, and academic, and consistof clippings, correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts,notebooks, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Gerald Dawe papers, MS.2000.016, John J.Burns Library, Boston College.


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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Processed by Lynn Moulton, Annalisa Moretti, Annesley Anderson, and Nathanael Carroll in January2020. This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace.

Conditions Governing Access

Some materials are closed at the request of Gerald Dawe.

Audiovisual recordings have been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not beplayed due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Provenance

Purchased from Gerald Dawe (2000-2019).

Conditions Governing Use

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S.Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, includingbut not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Anymaterials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. Theoriginal authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Related Materials

Related Materials

American Conference for Irish Studies records, MS.2017.039, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Bobbie Hanvey photographic archives, MS.2001.039, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Emmet J. Larkin papers, MS.2012.008, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Flann O'Brien papers, MS.1997.027, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

John F. Deane papers, MS.2002.009, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill papers, MS.1997.012, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.


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Biographical note

Gerald Dawe was born on April 22, 1952 in Belfast, Northern Ireland to Norma Fitzgerald Bradshawand Gordon Dawe. He attended Orangefield High School and lived in London prior to earning a B.A.from the New University of Ulster in 1974. For a short time, Dawe worked at Belfast Central Library.He was awarded a Major State Award for Postgraduate Research. He earned his M.A. in English at theUniversity of Galway between 1974 and 1978. Dawe married Dorothea Melvin in 1979, and they hadtwo children, Iarla and Olwen.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Dawe contributed reviews and essays on contemporary literature toThreshold, Fortnight, and Linen Hall Review. In 1978 Dawe published his first poetry collection, Sheltering Places, followed by The Lundys Letter (1985). He edited the critical collections TheYounger Irish Poets (1982) and The Poet's Place: Essays on Ulster Literature and Society with JohnWilson Foster (1985). In 1986 he founded and served as editor of the literary and cultural journal Krinowith Aodan Mac Poilin.

During the following decades Dawe deepened his poetry production and broadened the scope of hispublications on Irish literature, culture and history. His extensive output of poetry collections includedSunday School (1991), Heart of Hearts (1995), Lake Geneva (2003), Points West (2008), SelectedPoems (2012), Mickey Finn's Air (2014), Early Poems (2015), and The Last Peacock (2019). Hiscriticism comprised: How's the Poetry Going? Literary Politics and Ireland Today (1991), The Restis History (1998), Stray Dogs and Dark Horses: Selected Essays on Irish Writing an Criticism (2000), The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry, and Politics (2007), The World as Province: Selected Prose,1980-2008 (2009), Of War and Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing (2015), and The WrongCountry: Essays on Modern Irish Writing (2018). Additionally he wrote books reviews published in bothliterary journals and Irish newspapers and edited poetry editions of Charles Donnelly, Ethna McCarthy,and Padriacc Fiacc.

Dawe's later-career writings merged criticism with reflection, as in My Mother City (2007) Conversations: Poets and Poetry (2011), The Stoic Man (2015), In Another World: Van Morrison andBelfast (2017), and Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles (2020).

Dawe was a teacher as well as a writer and scholar. In 1988 he took a position as lecturer at TrinityCollege Dublin. In 1996 he created the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity with fellow poet BrendanKennelly, the first such program in Ireland. He became the director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for IrishWriting in 1999 and was elected a Trinity Fellow in 2004. Dawe held visiting scholar posts at JohnJ. Burns Library at Boston College (2005), Villanova University, Philadelphia (2009), and PembrokeCollege, Cambridge University (2016-2017). He retired from teaching in 2017.

Among Dawe's awards are the Arts Council of Ireland Bursary for Poetry (1980 and 2005), MacauleyFellowship for Literature (1984), Hawthornden International Writers' Fellowship (1987), and Ledig-Rowohlt International Writers Fellowship (1999).

Sources


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"Chartres Gerald Dawe." In Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2007.(Accessed April 1, 2020). Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000023838.

Dawe, Gerald. "Finding the language." The Southern Review 32, no. 2 (1996): 303. Gale AcademicOneFile (accessed April 3, 2020). Gale Document Number: GALE|A18266432

"Gerald Dawe." Trinity Writers portal printout, biographical notes about Dawe, Box 1, Folder 2, GeraldDawe papers, MS.2000.016, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

"Gerald Dawe: Biography." Gerald Dawe, accessed January 6, 2020. https://www.gerald-dawe.net/about.

Scope & Content note

Papers documenting the career of Gerald Dawe as a poet, essayist, and academic consist of artifacts,audiovisual recordings, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts, notebooks,photographs, and scrapbooks primarily pertaining to Gerald Dawe's literary community, in particularmodern Irish poets.

Correspondence demonstrates Dawe's friendships and professional exchanges with other Irish authorsand documents the administrative aspect of his speaking and publishing career. Notable correspondentsinclude photographer Bobbie Hanvey and authors Seamus Heaney, Padriac Fiacc, Thomas Kinsella,Michael Longley, and Edna O'Brien. His papers also include writings and photographs from his peers.

Speeches from broadcasts and literary events complement drafts of Dawe's published writings andeditorial work, showing his contribution to scholarship at the intersection of Irish poetry, history, andculture. Dawe's writing process is documented throughout the process: beginning with his notebooks,containing the earliest drafts of his poetry and criticism, to typescripts and proofs gathered by work, andculminating in release information and reviews for many publications.

Dawe's teaching materials contain his notes for courses on Irish dramatists, novelists, and poets, given atUniversity College Galway and Trinity College Dublin.

Arrangement

The Gerald Dawe papers are arranged into ten series: I. Biographical, II. Collected, III. Correspondence,IV. Editing, V. Financials, VI. Photographs, VII. Presenting, VIII. Teaching, IX. Writing, and X. Worksby others.

Series II. is divided into three subseries: A. Artifacts and personal ephemera; B. Literary ephemera; andC. Nora Robertson's scrapbooks.

Series III. is divided into three subseries, A. Peers; and B. Speaking and publishing; and C. Other.


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Series VII. is divided into two subseries: A. Lectures and readings; and B. Radio and TV broadcasts.

Series VIII. is divided into nine subseries: A. Bibliographies, B. Diaries, C. Nonfiction, D. Notebooks,E. Plays, F. Poems, G. Reference materials, H. Short stories, and I. Student works. Subseries C is furtherdivided into three sub-subseries: 1. Books, 2. Short works, and 3. Reviews. Subseries F. is divided intotwo sub-subseries: 1. Collections and 2. Individual.

Series X. is divided into two subseries: A. Photographs and B. Writings.


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Collection Inventory

Series I: Biographical, 1971-2018

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

box 1 folder 1Articles about Dawe, 1983-2017

Shared box315

folder 1-2

Biographical notes about Dawe by others, 2005-2016 box 1 folder 2

box 1 folder 3-5Calendars, 1998-2015


The calendars from 1998, 2014, and 2015 (box 1, folders 3and 5) are closed until 2052.

box 44

Identification cards, 1971-2017 box 1 folder 6

box 1 folder 7-8Interviews of Dawe, 1994-2018

Shared box315

folder 3

Series II: Collected, 1952-2019

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Subseries A: Artifacts and personal ephemera, circa 1965-2018

Belt, Boy Scout, circa 1965 box 43

Central Bank of Ireland five-pound notes featuring CatherineMcAuley and school children (only produced between1993-2002), 1994

box 1 folder 9

Children's artwork and cards, undated box 1 folder 10

City Hall Car Park plaque (Belfast), undated box 1 folder 11

Event tickets, 1978-2016 box 1 folder 12

Invitations, 1990-2018 box 1 folder 13

Irish literary politics clippings, 1980-2005, undated box 42 folder 21-22


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Shared box315

folder 16

Memorials, 2008-2018 box 1 folder 14

Northern Irish writers, poster, undated Shared box315

folder 4

Pet passport, 2016 box 1 folder 15

Digitalcontent129039

Portstewart Hooley live music recording, 1973Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 1

Rugby jersey, Orangefield Boy's School, circa 1967 box 43

Stamp, Francis Ledwidge Centenary, 2017 box 1 folder 16

Subseries B: Literary ephemera, 1976-2019

Scope and Contents

Includes promotional materials and programs for literaryevents that Dawe attended but at which he did not present.

Arrangement

Chronological.

box 48 folder 1-13

Subseries C: Norma Richardson's scrapbooks, 1952-2010

Scope and Contents

Materials collected and compiled by Dawe's mother that reflect both Dawe's progress as a writer, from his earliestschool assignments through his standing as a pulished author, and his background in the context of the politicalturmoil of Northern Ireland.

box 1 folder 17-19Dawe's writing, 1952-2010

box 45 volume 1-2

box 2 folder 1-2Northern Ireland politics, 1980s-1990s

box 45 volume 3-7

Series III: Correspondence, 1967-2019

Subseries A: Peers, 1969-2019

Arrangement

Alphabetical.


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Scope and Contents

Primarily long-running correspondence with other authors for whom Dawe was a friend, peer, mentor, or mentee.

Archibald, Sophia, 2011 December 15 box 2 folder 3

Arthur, Chris, 2004 May 26 box 2 folder 4

Balfe, Brendan, 2015 February 18 box 2 folder 5

Banotti, Mary, 2000, 2010 box 2 folder 6

Banville, John, 1987-1992, 1999 box 2 folder 7

Behan, John, 1978, 2013-2019 box 2 folder 8

Benson, Mary, 1991-1999 box 2 folder 9

Binchy, Chris, undated box 2 folder 10

Boyle, Joan, 2017 March 3 box 2 folder 11

Brennan, Rory, 2003 September 14 box 2 folder 12

Byrne, Mairead, 1991-1993 box 2 folder 13

Caldwell, Lucy, 2011 October box 2 folder 14

Carr, Deirdre, 2002 July 2 box 2 folder 15

Carson, Marie and Douglas, 2007-2011 box 2 folder 16

Chuto, Jacques, 1980 February-March box 2 folder 17

Connor, Noel, 1988-1997, undated box 2 folder 18

Connors, Kelly, 2010 April box 2 folder 19

Cooke, Emma, 1976 July-December box 2 folder 20

Cosgrove, Elaine, 2013 December 7 box 2 folder 21

Craig, Patricia, 2007-2009, undated box 2 folder 22

Crane, Robert, 2011, 2017 box 2 folder 23

Crawford, Robert, 1987-1991 box 2 folder 24

Crofts, Thomas, 1995-1997 box 2 folder 25

Cunningham, Sara, 2018 May 14 box 2 folder 26

Dallat, Cahal, 2004 June 29 box 2 folder 27

Davenport, Flamima Alfani, 2002 December 16 box 2 folder 28

Davie, Donald, 1983 September 23 box 2 folder 29

Deane, John F., 1978-1981, undated box 2 folder 30

Deane, Seamus, 1974-1977, undated box 2 folder 31

Diskin, Michael, 1993, 1996 box 2 folder 32


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Donnelly, Kay, before 2010 box 2 folder 34

Doyle, Bill, 2001, 2009 box 2 folder 35

Doyle, Les, 2012 box 2 folder 36

Doyle, Mark, 2012 box 2 folder 37

Duddy, Sheila, 2012 November 15 box 2 folder 38

Dunne, Sean, 1983-1994 box 2 folder 39

Durcan, Paul, 1979-1983, 2011 box 2 folder 40

Fallon, Peter, 1980-2017 box 2 folder 41

Fanning, Gerard and Brid Ni Chuilinn, 1975-2001 box 3 folder 1

Farrington, Margaret, before 2010 box 3 folder 2

Fenton, James, 2009 July 28 box 3 folder 3

Fiacc, Padraic, 1974-1994, 2004, undated box 3 folder 4

Filipova, Filipina, 1997 October 8 box 3 folder 5

Ford, Kristina, 2011 February 25 box 3 folder 6

Foster, John, 1978-2001 box 3 folder 7

Foster, Roy F., 2011 October 20 box 3 folder 8

Friel, Brian and Anne, 2005 box 3 folder 9

Gardiner, David, 2005-2009 box 3 folder 10

Gebler, Carlo, 1999-2017 box 3 folder 11

Gervais, David, 2000-2001, 2009, 2015 box 3 folder 12

Gifford, Henry, 1986-1997 box 3 folder 13

Gleeson, Michael, 2006-2007 box 3 folder 14

Gordon, Donal, 1996 April 8 box 3 folder 15

Gorman, Michael, 1992 September box 3 folder 16

Grant, David, 1981 box 3 folder 17

Greacon, Robert, 2006-2007 box 3 folder 18

Grone, Lurna, 2003 February 8 box 3 folder 19

Hamill, Brendan, 1982-2011, undated box 3 folder 20

Hamilton, Hugo, 2001, undated box 3 folder 21

Hanvey, Bobbie, 2009-2011, undated box 3 folder 22

Hardwick, Elizabeth, 2001 February 16 box 3 folder 23

Harrison, Jane, before 2010 box 3 folder 24


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Haughton, Hugh, 1999 March 12 box 3 folder 25

Hayes, Aidan, 2019 July 16 box 3 folder 26

Heaney, Seamus, 1969-2012, undated box 3 folder 27

Hewitt, John, 1974-1983, undated box 3 folder 28

Higgins, Michael D., 2004, 2011 box 3 folder 29

Holland, Merlin, 1998-1999 box 3 folder 30

Hooley, Ruth, 1994 box 3 folder 31

Hughes, Eamann, 1996 April 17 box 3 folder 32

Jackson, Alvin, 1999 April 12 box 4 folder 1

Johnston, Jennifer, 2010 January 12 box 4 folder 2

Journeaux, Hammond, 2014 box 4 folder 3

Kennelly, Brendan, 1998-2008 box 4 folder 4

Kiberd, Declan, 1991-2008 box 4 folder 5

Kilroy, Thomas, 1998-2004 box 4 folder 6

Kinsella, Thomas, 1983-2018, undated box 4 folder 7

Leonard, B.E., 2000 September 3 box 4 folder 8

Linden, Eddie, 1980 September 29 box 4 folder 9

Logue, Christopher, 1997-2002 box 4 folder 11

Longley, Michael, 2007-2011 box 4 folder 10

Lovelock, Yann, 1975-1981 box 4 folder 12

Lynch, Tony, 2008 September 7 box 4 folder 13

Lynskey, Eamon, 2015 November 3 box 4 folder 14

MacIntyre, Tom, 1992 box 4 folder 15

Macmullein, Raphael, 1993 October 15 box 4 folder 16

Mac Poilin, Aodan, 1978-1980, undated box 4 folder 17

Madden, Deirdre, 2006-2009, undated box 4 folder 18

Mahapatra, Jaynetta, 2002, 2015 box 4 folder 19

Mahon, Derek, 2004-2018, undated box 4 folder 20

McCabe, Cathal, 2009-2013 box 4 folder 21

McClure, Shirley, before 2017 box 4 folder 22

McDanell, June, 2011, undated box 4 folder 23

McGahern, John, 1996-2000 box 4 folder 24


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McGuckian, Medbh, undated box 4 folder 25

McGuinness, Frank, 1990-2007, undated box 4 folder 26

Meade, Declan, before 2011 box 4 folder 27

Melvin, Dorothea, before 2019 box 4 folder 28

Milne, Ewart, 1974-1977 box 4 folder 29

Milne, Ewart, 1978-1983, undated box 4 folder 30

Minihan, John, 1991 box 4 folder 31

Montague, John, undated box 4 folder 32

Moore. Brian and Jean, undated box 4 folder 33

Morrison, Danny, undated box 4 folder 34

Morrison, Van, 2001 December 11 box 4 folder 35

Murphy, Tom, 2018 May 19 box 5 folder 1

Murray, Les, 1986-1997, 2002, undated box 5 folder 2

NiChnilleanain, Eilean, undated box 5 folder 4

Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, 1999 July 1 box 2 folder 33

Nowlan, Paddy, 2014 box 5 folder 5

O'Beck, Bernhard, 2017 May 12 box 5 folder 3

O'Brien, Edna, 2000-2016 box 5 folder 6

O'Brien, Eoin, 2011 February 12 box 5 folder 7

O'Brien-Johnson, Toni, 1996-2001 box 5 folder 8

O'Donnell, Donal, 2010 March 25 box 5 folder 9

O'Driscoll, Dennis, 1983-2013, undated box 5 folder 10

O'Kelly, Emer, 2007-2012, undated box 5 folder 11

O'Leary, John, 1980 April 14 box 5 folder 12

O'Meara, Liam, before 2019 box 5 folder 13

O'Reilly, Sean, 1999 box 5 folder 14

O'Toole, Bridget, 2007-2017, undated box 5 folder 15

Parker, Joan, 1999 February 3 box 5 folder 16

Reid, Christopher, 2007, 2017 box 5 folder 17

Regan, Patrick J., 1980 August 11 box 5 folder 18

Rice, Adrian, 1996-2000 box 5 folder 19

Rides, Christopher, before 2011 box 5 folder 20


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Robinson, Mary and Nick, before 2010 box 5 folder 21

Roche, Anthony, 2000-2001 box 5 folder 22

Rooney, Patricia, 2007, 2017 box 5 folder 23

Rumens, Carol, 2000 February 26 box 5 folder 24

Rupp, Gudrun, 2007-2010 box 5 folder 25

Sand--(?), Penelope, undated box 5 folder 26

Sheeby, Joe, 2001 July 2 box 5 folder 27

Short, Constance, 2011 box 5 folder 28

Silke, Leonard, 1979 September 16 box 5 folder 29

Simko, Dusan, 1988-1989, 2009-2010 box 5 folder 30

Sinnerton, Henry, 1997-1998 box 5 folder 31

Sloan, Barry, 2002 July 22 box 5 folder 32

Smith, Dave, 1998 January 2 box 5 folder 33

Smith, Iain Crichton, 1998 box 5 folder 34

Smyth, Gerard and Pauline, 2007-2012 December box 5 folder 35

Snow, Margaret, 1999 July 21 box 5 folder 36

Stanley, Ken, 2015 June 26 box 5 folder 37

St. John, Philip, 2008 September 3 box 5 folder 38

Stuart-Smith, Stephen, 2002 February 13 box 5 folder 39

Tochigi, Nobuaki "Nobi", 2000-2008 box 5 folder 40

Tsugawa-Madden, Eriko, 2013-2014 box 5 folder 41

Tuathail, Eamon, 2000 box 5 folder 42

V.D., Paulose, undated box 5 folder 43

Williams, Jon, 2005-2017, undated box 6 folder 1

Williams, Katerina and David, 2007-2018, undated box 6 folder 2

Williams, Ron, 2000-2018, undated box 6 folder 3

Williams, Terry, undated box 6 folder 4

Subseries B: Speaking and Publishing, 1967-2018

Scope and Contents

Covers single engagements to contribute to literary and scholarly events as well as arrangements to publishindividual short works. The papers do not include publishing correspondence or contracts for book-length works.


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Arrangement

Chronological.

1967-1988 box 6 folder 5-26

1989-2000 box 7 folder 1-13

2001-2018, undated box 8 folder 1-19

undated box 9 folder 1

Subseries C: Other, 1974-2019

Arrangement

Chronological.

Scope and Contents

Contains acknowledgements, congratulations, condolences, items-of-potential-interest, and thank-you notes.

1974-2011 box 9 folder 2-15


Series IV: Editing, 1978-2019

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Across a Roaring Hill correspondence, typescripts, notes, andreviews, 1983-1986

box 11 folder 1-3

All Out of Shape: The Cúirt Debate on Contemporary IrishPoetry, probably 1995

box 11 folder 4-5

Earth Voices Whispering project planning, proofs, launch speech,and reviews, 2004-2016

box 11 folder 6-11

box 11 folder 12High Pop: The Irish Times Columns 1970-1976 cover proof andreviews, circa 2008

Shared box315

folder 5

Krino notes and reviews, 1986-1990 box 11 folder 13-14


Krino 1986-1996: An Anthology of Modern Irish Writingdiscussion on RTE Radio Off the Shelf Book Programme, withDawe, Angela Burke, and Fintan O'Toole, 1996 October 24Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 31

Krino 1986-1996: An Anthology of Modern Irish Writing reviewsand correspondence, 1996-1997

box 11 folder 15


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The New Younger Irish Poets correspondence, typescripts, andreviews, 1990-1991

box 11 folder 16-18

The Ogham Stone review and correspondence, 2002 box 12 folder 1

Poems, by Ethna MacCarthy, 2019 June box 12 folder 2

Ruined Pages: Selected Poems, Padraic Fiacc review, 1995February

box 12 folder 3

Stewart Parker: dramatis personae and other writings review,circa 2008

box 12 folder 4

"Writing in the West," literary supplement to the ConnachtTribune, correspondence and brief history, 1978-1986

box 12 folder 5-6

Yeats: the Poems reviews and correspondence, 1993 April box 12 folder 7

The Younger Irish Poets correspondence, typescripts, notes, andreviews, 1980-1982

box 12 folder 8-10

Series V: Financials, 1974-2013


The financial records in box 12, folders 11-12 are closed until2052.

box 12 folder 11-12

Series VI: Photographs, 1970-2012

Arrangement

Chronological.

Candids of Dawe, 1970s-1980s box 12 folder 13

box 12 folder 14-15Head shots, 1970s-1990s

Shared box315

folder 6

Other authors, 1980s-1990s box 12 folder 16

Candids from literary events, 1990-2008 box 12 folder 17-18

Dawe and Gerard Fanning with family on 50th birthdays, 2002 box 12 folder 19

Sketch of Dawe, 2007 February 29 box 12 folder 20

Candids from literary events, 2010s box 12 folder 21

Headshots and publicity photographs, 2009-2012, undated box 12 folder 22

Padraic Fiacc, circa 2010s box 12 folder 23

Terence Chartres Bradshaw and Dawe, before 2014 box 12 folder 24

Unidentified, undated box 12 folder 25


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Series VII: Presenting, 1978-2019

Scope and Contents

Includes drafts of lectures and speeches, a limited amount of related correspondence, event ephemera listing Dawe'sparticipation, and recordings.

Arrangement

Chronological.


Recordings of events and broadcasts have all been digitally copied; original media was retained, but may not beplayed due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Subseries A: Lectures and Readings, 1978-2019


"Northern Writers" panel discussion at UCG with Dawe,Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, and Seamus Heaney, audiorecording, 1978 December 2Physical Description2 audio cassettes

box 46 object 2-3

Event ephemera, 1978, 1983 box 13 folder 1-2


Poets in the West: Sydney Bernard Smith, Gerald Dawe, PaulDurcan, Fred Johnston, produced by Fred Johnston, studiorecording of readings with music, 1982Physical Description1 audio CD

box 47 object 3

Launches and opening remarks, 1984-1996 box 13 folder 3

Introduction to "Experience the Difference" exhibit, Galway,1988 August

box 13 folder 4

Event ephemera, circa 1980s-1990s box 13 folder 5-6


Readings at Garron Tower, Radio Ulster broadcast of the JohnHewitt Summer School poetry and prose event, audio recording,1990 September 23Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 7

"Architecture in Conflict" address, manuscript, 1993 January 3 box 13 folder 7

Untitled address on contemporary poetry, 1993 November 19 box 13 folder 8

"Finding the Language", 1994 October 1 box 13 folder 9

"The Abbey Debate" Seminar One, The State of the Art, 1994December 4

box 13 folder 10

"Initials," an exhibition of monoprints by Noel Connor, speech,1995 March 24

box 13 folder 11


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Reading, typescript, 1995 December 6 box 13 folder 12


Gerald Dawe public interview of Van Morrison at BrangwynHall, Swansea, full cut audio recording, 1995 December 7Physical Description1 audio cassette


This interview (box 46, object 41) is closed until 2035.

Related Materials

An edited transcription of this interview is available inDawe's book In Another World.

box 46 object 41

"There's No Set Thing: Gerald Dawe in Conversation with VanMorrison," UK Year of Literature and Writing Festival, 1995December 7

box 13 folder 13

"Reading Poetry," address at School of English at TrinityCollege Dublin, 1996 January 30

box 13 folder 14

"Reimaginations: The Art of Pluralism", circa 1996 box 13 folder 15

Contemporary Irish Poetry Seminar reading, 1997 summer box 13 folder 16

Event ephemera, 1997-1998 box 13 folder 17

Address for the Austin Clarke Summer School, 1999 November5

box 13 folder 18


Cuirt 1999 reading and unedited interview, audio recording,1999Physical Description1 audio CD box 47 object 7

Event ephemera, 1999 box 13 folder 19

"Europe: Where's That?," original script for lecture at the BritishCouncil Conference, Nicosia, 2000 March 30

box 13 folder 20

Event ephemera, 2000-2018 box 13 folder 21

"War and Peace" talk, Humbert Summer School, 2003 July 5 box 13 folder 22

"Identity and Cultural Diversity in Irish Writing" conferenceprogram, 2003 August 23

box 13 folder 23

"Engaging Poems" lecture, Boston College, probably 2005 box 13 folder 24


"Odd Man Out" lecture on Padraic Fiacc, Boston College,extract, 2005

box 13 folder 26

"Twilight and War Zones: Belfast as an Imagined Place", before2006

box 13 folder 27


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"'My hierarchy of values': John Hewitt, a critical retrospective"lecture, probably 2006

box 13 folder 29

"Befitting Emblems of Adversity" conference panel, 2007 April box 13 folder 30

"Talking about Writing: A Reading" speaking notes, 2007 May11

box 13 folder 31

An Sionnach reading, closing remarks, 2007 July 4 box 13 folder 32


Incorrigibly Plural book launch speech, probably 2007 or 2008 box 13 folder 34

"'Meditation in Time of Civil War': Reading The Story of LucyGault" lecture, 2008 April

box 13 folder 35


Introductions, probably 2008 box 14 folder 1

"Stewart Parker: Different Backgrounds" talk and introductionto High Pop, probably 2008

box 14 folder 2


Introductions, 2009 box 14 folder 4

Thomas Kilroy lecture background material, circa 2009 box 14 folder 5

Belfast lecture and "Laughter and Forgetting: Poems asAfterlives, a Reading", 2009-2010

box 14 folder 6

"Francis Ledwidge: A Man of His Time", before 2010 box 14 folder 7

Icarus 60th anniversary issue launch, 2010 April 1 box 14 folder 8

"Exchanging Messages: The Literary Legacy of ChristabelBielenburg" lecture, 2010 April

box 14 folder 9

An Afterglow launch, 2010 November 24 box 14 folder 10

Volunteer Voices launch speech, 2010 September-December box 14 folder 11

"From Borstal Boy and Ginger Man to Kitty Stobling: A BriefLook Back at the Fifties in Ireland" evening lecture, 2011 March29

box 14 folder 12

"Across the Boundaries: Talking About Thomas Kilroy" eventplanning, 2011 April

box 14 folder 13

"John McGahern, a Poetry Lecture", 2011 July box 14 folder 14

Creative Writing in Ireland Symposium, opening address, 2011October 7

box 14 folder 15

Robert Graves lecture, never delivered, 2011 November box 14 folder 16

"Christabel Bielenburg" lecture, 2011 December 2 box 14 folder 17


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"Across the Boundaries: Talking About Thomas Kilroy"welcome address, 2011

box 14 folder 18


Launches, 2011 box 14 folder 20


Dawe reading his prose (annotated "for Lagan website"), audiorecording, probably 2011-2012Physical Description1 audio CD box 47 object 29


box 14 folder 22Event ephemera, 2013

Shared box315

folder 7

"Between the Mountains and the Sea: A Reading and a Talk",2014 April 1

box 14 folder 23

If Ever You Go reading, 2014 April box 14 folder 24

"Listening In," James Joyce Center, 2014 June 6 box 14 folder 25

"Pikes, hawks and foxes - thoughts on first reading TedHughes", 2014 July

box 14 folder 26

Damien Smyth introduction, Orangefield School, 2014 August22

box 14 folder 27

Event ephemera, 2014 box 15 folder 1-2

"From Dusty Bluebells to Parallax: reading and writing poetryin Northern Ireland" keynote address, 2014

box 15 folder 3


Introductions to Peter Fallon, Cuirt International Festival ofLiterature, 2015 April

box 15 folder 5

"Fitting In: Thoughts on Goldsmith, Literary Fame andMisfortune", 2015 May

box 15 folder 6

"Ethna Carbery on H Block" for the North Began? Symposium,2015 June

box 15 folder 7

"John Hewitt: Home Worlds" exhibition opening remarks, 2015June

box 15 folder 8

Trinity College "Love Translations" reading, 2015 September 18 box 15 folder 9

Dermot Healy, Dalkey Archive press launch introductions, 2015October 22

box 15 folder 10

"Disability and War Literature", circa 2015 box 15 folder 11




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Introductions to Of War and War's Alarms at the IrishAssociation, 2015

box 15 folder 14

Oxfam "Make Them Visible" reading, 2015 box 15 folder 15

Richard Murphy reading, between 2015-2018 box 15 folder 16

"Brexit" talk, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 2016May 23

box 15 folder 17

"Hewitt's Republic: John Hewitt's poetry in the Decade ofCommemorations", 2016 July

box 15 folder 18

"Dorothy Molloy" reading, 2016 August 4 box 15 folder 19

Easter 1916 talk, probably 2016 box 15 folder 20


Rosie Lavan introduction, probably 2016 box 15 folder 22

"History Lessons: On the Poetry of Seamus Deane" lecture,2017 March 10

box 15 folder 23

"'Wild Things': Creatures in my Poetry" reading, 2017 March box 15 folder 24

"An Outsider in 'Brexitland': Some Observations" seminarlecture, 2017 July 14

box 15 folder 25

Ledwidge Day poetry reading and talk, 2017 July 30 box 15 folder 26

Francis Ledwidge Centenary Seminar organized by Dawe, 2017October

box 15 folder 27


"Fitting In: Thoughts on Goldsmith, Literary Fame andMisfortune" lecture, 2017 or 2018

box 15 folder 29

"The Hand of History", 2018 March box 15 folder 30

Remembrance Sunday address, 2018 November box 15 folder 31


"Forty Years of Editing" lecture, 2018 box 16 folder 2


"Missing Voices: Irish Women Poets of the 18th-20thCenturies" seminar organized by Dawe, 2018

box 16 folder 4

"In Another World" Belfast Book Festival lecture, 2019 June box 16 folder 5

Subseries B: Radio and Television Broadcasts, 1994-2018, undated

Galway radio broadcast of Dawe interviewing Paul Smith, 1977Physical Description1 audio cassette



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box 46 object 33 Side A


Poetry Anthology radio program with Eavan Bolandinterviewing Dawe, audio recording, 1977Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 33 Side B


Dawe reviewing a play by Geraldine Aron, radio broadcastaudio recording, probably 1984Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 18 Side B


"Poetry in Modern Society" radio program, probably 1984Physical Description1 audio cassette



Bookmobile radio program presented by Andy O'Mahony withDawe, Tim Robinson, Des Kenny, Alph McLaughlin, and PatO'Brien, audio recording, probably 1985Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 17


Interview of Dawe, audio recording, probably 1987Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 23


Readings by Australian poets, with Dawe interviewing Les A.Murray, audio recording, approximately 1987Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 39


Roots and Horizons, Radio Ulster program featuring Dawe,audio recording, 1990 April 22Physical Description1 audio cassette

Processing Information

Note that while the contents of the full original cassetterecording are preserved here, Dawe's contributions don'toccur until the second track (from Side B) at about the 10-minute mark.

box 46 object 5


Writer to Writer, Radio Ulster program on poetry featuringDawe, Mary Murphy, and Damian Quinn, audio recording, 1990May 27Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 6

Arts Programme radio broadcast of Dawe and Mike Murphydiscussing the Flaming Door arts project for the 75thanniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, 1991 March 28


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Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 8


"Landscape, Literature, and Learning" radio program about the1990 John Hewitt Summer School, 1990Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 19


"A Coney Island of the Mind," RTE 1 television program onVan Morrison featuring Dawe, video recording, probably 1990Physical Description1 videocassette (VHS) Shared box

14956object 2


The Poet's Voice radio program, 1990 or 1991Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 26


Interview of Dawe by RTE's Andy O'Mahony, audio recording,1991 June 30Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 9 Side B


"Fife and Drum II" conference, Shankill Road Belfast, liveaudio recording and BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequencecoverage of the conference, 1994 October 2Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 10-11,27

"Beyond the Fife and Drum?" BBC Radio Ulster SundaySequence, typescript, 1994

box 16 folder 6

Sunday Sequence, BBC Radio Ulster, typescript, 1995 box 16 folder 7


You're Booked, BBC Radio Ulster program with Dawediscussing Thomas MacDonagh, audio recording, 1996 April 7Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 12

"A Last Inheritor: The Legacy of W.B. Yeats" BBC Belfastradio typescript, 1997 May 19

box 16 folder 8


"A Last Inheritor: The Legacy of W.B. Yeats" on BBC Radio 3,written and presented by Dawe, audio recording of program andDawe's interviews with other poets about Yeats, 1997 June 8Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 13,34-38

Radio broadcast on The Rest Is History, audio recording,probably 1998


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Physical Description1 data CD

box 47 object 6


"Rhymescapes, Northern Ireland" radio program with interviewof Dawe, audio recording, probably 1998Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 22


BBC Radio 3 broadcast of a reading of Brendan Kennelly'spoem "The Man Made of Rain", between 1998-2000Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 25

A Giant at My Shoulder RTE Radio 1 episode featuring Daweon Van Morrison, typescript, 1999 before June 17

box 16 folder 9


A Giant at My Shoulder RTE Radio 1 episode "Gerald Dawetalks about Van Morrison," audio recording, 1999 June 17Physical Description1 audio cassette


This broadcast recording (box 46, object 42) is closeduntil 2035.

box 46 object 42

"A Giant at My Shoulder, in conversation with MarianRichardson" RTE Radio 1 edited transcript, 1999 probably June

box 16 folder 11


Lyric Notes broadcast of Dawe reading and discussing hispoetry, including The Morning Train, audio recording, 1999Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 16


Ebony and Ivory radio program, Flash Radio, Prešov, Slovakia,1999 March 23Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 24


Dawe reading "Human Wishes" and brief interview by O'Dulin,audio recording, before 2000Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 21

RTE Sunday Miscellany typescript, before 2000 box 16 folder 10

Poets Chair program on RTE Radio 1, with readings by Dawe,Julie O'Callahan, and Michael Longley, audio recording, 2000January 19


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Physical Description1 audio cassette

box 46 object 20


The Armchair Traveler series, "By Lake Geneva", RTE Radioaudio recording, 2001 July 14Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 14


The Enchanted Way program, RTE Radio 1, host David Hanlyand Dawe discussing "the Protestant imagination", audiorecording, 2003 June 7Physical Description1 audio CD

box 47 object 8


"Arnold Bax: The Real O'Byrne" BBC Radio 3 Sunday Featurewith commentary by Dawe, audio recording, 2003 August 24Physical Description1 audio CD box 47 object 9


The Poem and the Place RTE radio program: "King John'sCastle" by Thomas Kinsella, audio recording, 2003 November20Physical Description1 audio CD

box 47 object 10


The Poem and the Place RTE radio program: "Glencormley" byDerek Mahon, audio recording, 2003 December 18Physical Description1 audio CD box 47 object 11


The Poet's Chair, with a Dawe reading and interview by AlanTitley, produced for Poetry Ireland Educational Programmes,video recording, 2003Physical Description1 videocassette (VHS)

Shared box14956

object 3


The Poem and the Place RTE radio program: "Human Wishes"by Gerald Dawe, audio recording, 2004 February 11Physical Description1 audio CD box 47 object 12


"How the East Was Sung," BBC Belfast documentary, videorecording, 2004Physical Description2 videocassettes (VHS) Shared box

14956object 4

"Talking of Dreams" radio dramatization script, 2004 box 16 folder 12


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"The Celt, the Cat, and the Cave," BBC Radio 3 program aboutLouis MacNeice, audio recording, 2007 September 9Physical Description1 audio CD box 47 object 16


ArtZone RTE Lyric FM program with Dawe interview on warpoetry, audio recording, 2007 December 14Physical Description1 audio CD box 47 object 17


Lyric Notes "Quiet Quarter," RTE Lyric FM radio programsegments featuring Dawe's Boston poems, audio recording, 2008April-AugustPhysical Description1 audio CD

box 47 object 18


The Poetry Programme RTE Radio program hosted byDawe, "Captivating Brightness" Christmas day episode, 2008December 25Physical Description2 audio CDs

box 47 object 21-22

Texts for Lyric FM radio, typescripts, probably 2008 box 16 folder 13

Dawe radio program schedule, possibly for The PoetryProgramme, 2008

box 16 folder 14

The Poetry Programme reviews, clippings, 2008 box 16 folder 16

The Poetry Programme second series, notes and draftintroductions, 2008

box 16 folder 15

RTE Sunday Miscellany scripts, 2009-2010 box 16 folder 17


Arts Tonight RTE radio program on J. G. Farrell, with Dawe,Lavinia Greacen, Bridget O'Toole, Peter Straus, and Owen Roe,audio recording, 2010 September 6Physical Description1 audio CD

box 47 object 26

BBC "Thought for the day," scripts, 2011 January box 16 folder 18

BBC talk on Northern Ireland writers, notes and ephemera, 2011September

box 16 folder 19


Arts Extra, BBC Radio Ulster program with interview of Daweabout publishing Selected Poems, audio recording, 2012 June 7Physical Description1 audio CD box 47 object 30

The Ramblin' Man radio program hosted by Bobbie Hanvey,with Dawe speaking about Selected Poems, audio recording,2012 September 16 and 23


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Physical Description1 audio CD

box 47 object 38

BBC "Three Minds at War: Francis Ledwidge," typescript, 2016April 13

box 16 folder 20

BBC "Thought for the day" on "time," typescript, before 2017March

box 16 folder 21

Lyric FM poetry reading, typescript, probably 2018 box 16 folder 22

"Poets and Writers," BBC Northern Ireland, published program,undated

box 16 folder 23

Series VIII: Teaching, 1978-2005, undated

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

The Anglo-Irish Novel, course lectures, University CollegeGalway, 1978-1979

box 16 folder 24

Contemporary Irish Drama, course lectures, undated box 16 folder 25

Irish Literature in the European context, lecture notes andreference materials, 1990-2000

box 16 folder 26

Making History, course lectures on Boucicault and Wilde, TrinityCollege Dublin, 1988-circa 2002

box 16 folder 27

Making History, course lecture notes on O'Casey, 1988-circa 2002 box 16 folder 28

Making History, course lectures on Synge, 1988-circa 2002 box 17 folder 1

Making History, course lecture notes on Yeats, 1988-circa 2002 box 17 folder 2

Making Poetry, extra mural, 1982 box 17 folder 3

Poetry Seminar, Boston College, syllabus and assignment, 2005March

box 17 folder 4

Poets and Dramatists, course lectures, Trinity College Dublin,1993

box 17 folder 5

Sophister classes, course notes, Trinity College Dublin, 1984-1992 box 17 folder 6

Teaching schedule, Trinity College Dublin, 1988 box 17 folder 7

Unidentified course, notes on Beckett, Yeats, and Modernism,1979, undated

box 17 folder 8

Wednesday night writing workshop, undated box 17 folder 9

Series IX: Writing, 1960-2019


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Scope and Contents

Primarily typescript drafts and proofs. Some files included congratulatory letters and reviews of his works.

Subseries A: Bibliography, after 2000 box 17 folder 10

Subseries B: Diaries, 1966-1972


The diaries in box 18 are closed until 2052.

Arrangement

Chronological.

box 18 folder 1-10

Subseries C: Nonfiction, 1974-2019

Sub-Subseries 1: Books, 1990-2019

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Against Piety: Essays in Irish Poetry reviews andcorrespondence, 1995-1996

box 19 folder 1

The Burning Ground review, 2002 July 18 box 19 folder 2

Catching the Light: Views and Interviews typescript, reviews,and interview, 2002-2009

box 19 folder 3-5

Conversations: Poets and Poetry, 1981-2010 proofs and finaldraft, 2011

box 19 folder 6-7

How's the Poetry Going?: Literary Politics and Ireland Todaytypescript and reviews, 1990-1994

box 19 folder 8-9

In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast proofs, extracts,and reviews, 2017-2018

box 19 folder 10-11

"Inishbafin: Portrait of an Island" book proposal, 1992-1994 box 19 folder 12

box 19 folder 13Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles typescripts, 2019

box 20 folder 1

box 20 folder 2-4My Mother-city proofs, extracts, reviews, 2007-2008

Shared box315

folder 11

Of War and Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writingdrafts, extracts, correspondence, and notes, 2013-2016

box 20 folder 5-8


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box 20 folder 9The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry and Politics typescript,publication planning, launch notes, and reviews, 2006-2007

box 21 folder 1-4


The Proper Word, Fintan O'Toole launch address at TrinityCollege Dublin, audio recording, 2007 June 18Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 32

box 21 folder 5-9The Rest is History drafts, correspondence, launch, andreviews, 1997-1999

box 22 folder 1-3


The Rest Is History book launch at Abbey Grammar School,Newry, video recording, 1998 February 6Physical Description1 videocassette (VHS) Shared box

14956object 1

The Stoic Man cover and press releases, 2015 box 22 folder 4

box 22 folder 5-9Stray Dogs and Dark Horses: Selected Essays on Irish Writingan Criticism proofs, reviews, and correspondence, 1998-2000

box 23 folder 1-2

Under the Table, extract "Sylvia in Belfast", probably 2010 or2011

box 23 folder 3

"The War Next Door" typescript, between 2003-2005 box 23 folder 4

The World as Province: Selected Prose, 1980-2008 typescript,proofs, and reviews, 2008-2012

box 23 folder 5-8

The Wrong Country: Reflections on Irish Writing correctedand annotated typescript, 2017

box 23 folder 9

box 24 folder 1-16Sub-Subseries 2: Reviews, 1977-2017

Arrangement

Chronological.

Shared box315

folder 9-10

Sub-Subseries 3: Short Works, 1974-2019

Arrangement

Chronological, with a single set of collected clippings of newspaper articles before typescripts of individualworks.

box 25 folder 1Article clippings, 1975-2018

Shared box315

folder 8

Letters to press/Early criticism, 1974-1977 box 25 folder 2

Letter to the Editor regarding peace process, with backgroundmaterials, 1977-1994, undated

box 25 folder 3


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"Charles Donnelly: 1931-1937" typescript and notes, circa1970s

box 25 folder 4

"Changing Habitations: A Review of Poetry in IrelandToday", after 1980

box 25 folder 5

"A Bleak Afflatus: The 'Protestant Imagination?'", 1983 box 25 folder 6

Preface, Criterion Anniversary Issue, 1983 box 25 folder 7

"A Connacht Reckoning" typescript and clippings with Daweinterview, 1983, 1990

box 25 folder 8

"A Kernel of Imaginary Life", 1984 box 25 folder 9

"Making a Poem in Galway", 1984 box 25 folder 10

"Printing an Image", 1984 box 25 folder 11

"From Different Premises, the Same Landscapes: On thePoetry of Iain Crichton Smith:, after 1984

box 25 folder 12

"A Citizen of Shorts" typescript and notes, 1985 box 25 folder 13

"Journeymen to Grief: Poetry and Exile", circa 1985 box 25 folder 14

"Going Places", after 1985 box 25 folder 15

"An Absence of Influence: Three Modern Irish Poets", 1986 box 25 folder 16

"Twentieth Century Irish Poetry in English", after 1986 box 25 folder 17

"A Sense of Freedom", 1988 box 25 folder 18

"Thomas Kinsella: Poetry as Example", after 1988 box 25 folder 19

Untitled Commentary on Dylan Thomas, 1988-2017 box 25 folder 20

"Commentary" column, Irish Times, 1989 box 25 folder 21

"Some Poets", probably 1980s box 25 folder 22

"Anatomist of Melancholia" about Louis MacNeice,1980s-1990s

box 25 folder 23

"A Parochial Idyll: A Note on W.D. Rodgers", 1990-1991 box 25 folder 24

"Talking Shop: Language as Politics", 1990-1991 box 25 folder 25

"Silence of the Heart", after 1991 box 25 folder 26

"Brendan Kennelly: A Note on Breathing Space: EarlyPoems, 1993

box 25 folder 27

"Double Identities: Gerald Dawe in Conversation with W.J.McCormack and Hugh Maxton", 1993

box 25 folder 28

"Letter from Ireland" clipping, 1993 box 25 folder 29

"'Remembering McGarvey': A Note on Brian Friel's FaithHealer", 1993

box 25 folder 30

"After the Event", 1994Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016

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box 25 folder 31

"Finding the Language: The Shankill Speech", 1994 box 25 folder 32

"The Same Thing Only Different", 1994 box 25 folder 33

"Singing Schools of Excellence?", 1994 box 25 folder 34

"The State of the Art: Gerald Dawe", 1994 box 25 folder 35

"Poetry Round-Up" typescript and clipping, 1994-1995 box 25 folder 36

"After the Event: Poetry and Violence", 1995 box 25 folder 37

"Against Piety", 1995 box 25 folder 38

"Bring Back My Body to Me!", 1995 box 25 folder 39

"Feeling the Silence: Poet Gerald Dawe on his Conversationwith Van Morrison…", 1995

box 25 folder 40

"The Irish Language: A Badge of Political Identity?", 1995 box 25 folder 41

"Irish Theatre: A View From the Outside", 1995 box 25 folder 42

"Reader's Choice" clippings and typescript, 1995 box 25 folder 43

"By the Book", 1996 box 25 folder 44

"Finding the Language", 1996 box 25 folder 45

Preface to Thomas MacDonagh's Literature in Ireland, 1996 box 25 folder 46

"Seamus Heaney: The Art of Consolation", 1996 box 25 folder 47

"Too Cozy About the Arts?" clipping and typescript, 1996 box 25 folder 48

Untitled Typescript About a visit to Prague, probably 1996 box 25 folder 49

Untitled essay, 1997 box 25 folder 50

"Heirs and Graces: The Influence and Example of DerekMahon" typescript and notes, circa 1998

box 25 folder 51

"The Northern Complex", 1998 box 25 folder 52

"A Question of Covenants: Poetry as Commemoration",probably 1998

box 26 folder 1

"'What's the Story?' Irish Writing and British Studies",1998-1999

box 26 folder 2

Obituary of Roy McFadden, typescript and clipping, 1999September 25

box 26 folder 3

"Kilroy's Wilde: On The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde",2000

box 26 folder 4

"Peter Bielenberg: An Appreciation" typescript and clipping,2001 March 22

box 26 folder 5

Christabel and Peter Bielenberg Funeral programs andbackground, 2001-2003

box 26 folder 6


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"Fortnight" typescript and clipping, 2003 box 26 folder 7

"History Class: Northern Poetry, 1970-1982" proof for NewHibernia Review and background material, 2003

box 26 folder 8

"History Class: On Northern Poetry, 1970-1982", 2003 box 26 folder 9

"The Language War: Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People,2003

box 26 folder 10

"The Revenges of the heart: Belfast and the poets", 2003 box 26 folder 11

"The Template of Europe", 2003 Fall box 26 folder 12

"'The Upper World': A View of Switzerland", circa 2003 box 26 folder 13

"Buried Truth: A Note on Frank McGuinness and The WildDuck, between 2003-2006

box 26 folder 14

"The Charter Review", 2004 box 26 folder 15

"Galway on my Mind", after 2004 box 26 folder 16

"Charting the Beckett Country", 2006 box 26 folder 17

"Talking of Dreams" radio dramatization, 2006 box 26 folder 18

"Less is More", between 2006-2009 box 26 folder 19

"My New Found Land" typescript and manuscript, between2006-2009

box 26 folder 20

"Stewart Parker: Different Backgrounds" lecture andbackground materials including Stewart Parker DifferentBackgrounds and Other Writings, 2008

box 26 folder 21

"The Story of the Republic: Tóibín's Generation", circa 2008 box 26 folder 22

"Vestiges: Poems as afterlives, a reading", probably 2008 box 26 folder 23

"The Poets and Poems of Easter 1916" for the The OxfordHandbook of Modern Irish Poetry typescript and notes, 2008

box 26 folder 24

"At One Time" typescript and notes, 2009 box 26 folder 25

"Dance to the Music of Time", 2009 box 26 folder 26

"Padraic Fiacc 'By the Black Stream'" typescript and notes,2009

box 26 folder 27

Preface to Hombre, poems by Gerard Fanning, 2011 February box 26 folder 28

"Unhealthy Intersection: an essay" for The Stinging Flytypescript and clipping, 2011

box 27 folder 1

"Where Tree's Fly Suddenly Away" typescript and notes, 2011 box 27 folder 2

Untitled essay, 2012 box 27 folder 3

"Out of the Blue", between 2012-2015 box 27 folder 4

"Why am I here?", between 2012-2015 box 27 folder 5


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"The Practice of Writing", 2013 box 27 folder 6

"Seamus Heaney: An Appreciation", probably 2013 box 27 folder 7

"Lucky man", 2014-2015 box 27 folder 8

"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin", probably 2015 box 27 folder 9

"Home Thoughts", 2015 box 27 folder 10

"In Times Like These", 2015 box 27 folder 11

"'As if the Sun Shone': Love and Loss in Richard Murphy'sPoems", 2015

box 27 folder 12

"'Days of Burned Countryside': Public and Private Wars,1975-1985" from Eaven Boland: Inside History typescript andproof, probably 2016

box 27 folder 13

Epilogue for an anthology on Bangor, Northern Ireland, 2016October

box 27 folder 14

"Ethna Carbery on H Block" typescript and clippings, 2016 box 27 folder 15

Seamus Heaney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biographyentry, contract, correspondence, and typescripts, 2016

box 27 folder 16

"The Water Table" proof, probably 2016 or 2017 box 27 folder 17

"The Yellow Rivers", 2016-2018 box 27 folder 18

"A Cambridge History of WWI Poetry", 2017 January 28 box 27 folder 19

Introduction to Our Tangled Speech by Aodán Mac Páilin,2017

box 27 folder 20

Reflection on editing The Cambridge Companion to IrishPoets, 2017

box 27 folder 21

"Make Like a Bird for Trinity College", 2017-2018 box 27 folder 22

"Visual Keeper" article on Padraic Beaney, 2019 Summer box 27 folder 23

"Identity and Cultural Diversity in Irish Writing" manuscriptnotes, undated

box 27 folder 24

Subseries D: Notebooks, 1982-2018

Arrangement

Chronological.

1982-1989 box 27 folder 25-28

1989-1997 box 28 folder 1-9

1999-2004 box 29 folder 1-8

2003-2009 box 30 folder 1-10

box 31 folder 1-10


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2009-2016


Subseries E: Plays, before 2000

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

"The Blind Eye", before 2000 box 32 folder 7

"Enquiries", before 2000 box 32 folder 8

"On the Rocks", before 2000 box 32 folder 9

The Waste Land adaptation of T. S. Elliot's poem, produced atUniversity College Galway, 1980 May

box 32 folder 10

Subseries F: Poems, 1970-2019

Sub-Subseries 1: Collections, 1971-2019

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

"The Bay Tree: Selected Poems 1973-2008" typescripts, 2008or 2009

box 32 folder 11-12

Blood and Moon mock-up and proof, 1976 box 32 folder 13

Country Music typescripts, proofs, and a review, 2005-2010 box 32 folder 14-17

Crossing the Sound final proof and preface by HugoHamilton, 2018

box 33 folder 1-2

Early Poems final proofs, 2015 April box 33 folder 3

Heart of Hearts typescript, proof, reviews, andcorrespondence, 1994-1996

box 33 folder 4-5


Heart of Hearts reviews on BBC Radio Ulster You're Bookedand The Arts Show, audio recordings, 1995Physical Description2 audio cassettes box 46 object 29-30

Heritages correspondence and typescripts, 1975 box 33 folder 6-7

box 33 folder 8-11Lake Geneva manuscripts, typescripts, reviews, andcorrespondence, 1999-2006

box 48 folder 13

The Last Peacock manuscripts and typescripts, 2016-2018 box 33 folder 12-13

The Lundy's Letter manuscripts, typescripts, reviews, andcorrespondence, 1971-1986

box 34 folder 1-9


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Mickey Finn's Air typescripts, proofs, dummy book,interviews, reviews, launch materials, and correspondence,2008-2015

box 34 folder 10-16

Mickey Finn's Air, 2008-2015 box 35 folder 1-2

The Morning Train manuscripts, typescripts, reviews, andcorrespondence, 1993-2002

box 35 folder 3-7

The Night Fountain correspondence, manuscript, typescripts,and proofs, 1999-2008

box 35 folder 8-15

"Poems (1970-2005)" typescript, circa 2005 box 36 folder 1-2

Points West typescripts, proofs, and reviews, 2006-2008 box 36 folder 3-7

Reading Ireland advance copy, 2019 February box 36 folder 8

box 36 folder 9-13Selected Poems typescripts, proofs, launch materials, andreviews, 2011-2012

Shared box315

folder 12


Selected Poems read by Dawe, audio recording, 2012 JulyPhysical Description2 audio CDs

box 47 object 31-32

Sheltering Places manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence,and reviews, 1973-1979

box 37 folder 1-7

Sheltering Places revised edition, proofs and blurbs, 2008 box 37 folder 8-10


Sunday School reading, audio recording, 1991 June 30Physical Description1 audio cassette



Sunday School and How's the Poetry Going review on BBCradio, probably 1991Physical Description1 audio cassette box 46 object 28

Sunday School manuscripts, typescripts, and reviews, circa1991-1992

box 37 folder 11-14

The Visible World or Die Sichtbare Welt typescripts, proofs,and launch materials, probably 2007-2008

box 37 folder 15-17

The Visible World or Die Sichtbare Welt typescripts, proofs,and launch materials, probably 2007-2008

box 38 folder 1

The Water Table, 1991 November box 38 folder 2

Sub-Subseries 2: Individual Poems, 1970-2017


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Arrangement

Chronological.

Published poems, clippings, 1970-2017 box 38 folder 3-4

Review of poem "Names", 1974 box 38 folder 5

Individual Poems, drafts, 1974-1987, undated box 38 folder 6-8

Christmas card poems, 1997, 2002, 2005 box 38 folder 9

"Quartz" from The Morning Train, reprinted in ShalomBelfast program, 2000

box 38 folder 10

"Deja Vu: in memory of Terence Chartres Bradshaw"typescript, proof, and photograph, 2001-2009

box 38 folder 11

Pied-a-terre manuscripts (published as Kore broadsheet #13),circa 2006

box 38 folder 12

"These Foolish Things" prose poem, before 2009 box 38 folder 13

"Land of Dreams" typescript, probably 2014 box 38 folder 14

"Home Again" for Oxfam Ireland's Culture Night Project,typescript and background material, 2015

box 38 folder 15

"The Water Table" typescript for The Hearts Core, 2016 box 38 folder 16

Subseries G: Reference materials,1991-2015, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes essays and articles not affiliated with a particularwriting project but which Dawe felt had enduring value inunderstanding his papers.

box 42 folder 20

Subseries H: Short Story, undated

"Allowances" typescript, undated box 38 folder 17

Subseries I: Student works, 1960-1974

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Class notes and poetry, probably 1974 box 38 folder 18

Class notes, philosophy, probably 1960s box 38 folder 19

Class notes, poetry, 1968-1969 box 38 folder 20

Class notes, Twentieth Century Novelists, probably 1960s box 38 folder 21


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Series X: Works by others, 1968-2019

Subseries A: Criticism of Dawe, 1994-2007

Arrangement

Chronological.

"Uneasy Domesticity: The Poetry of Gerald Dawe" by DavidGardiner, in Eire-Ireland, 1994 Summer

box 38 folder 22

box 38 folder 23

box 39 folder 1-5

"A special issue dedicated to the work of Gerald Dawe," bymultiple authors in An Sionnach, 2006-2007

Shared box315

folder 13

Subseries B: Photographs and films, before 2000-2004

Arrangement

Alphabetical.


All video recordings have been digitally copied; original media was retained, but may not be played due to format.Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Doyle, Bill. Jazz photographs, 2001 box 39 folder 6

Doyle, Leslie. Photographs, 2002-2004 box 39 folder 7

box 39 folder 8Graham, Godfrey, and Odran Walsh. "Behind the Closed Eye:Francis Ledwidge" video recording, 2017Physical Description1 DVD


Hanvey, Bobbie. Photographs, 2009-2019 Shared box315

folder 14-15


Hanvey, Bobbie. Profile on UTV television, 1995Physical Description1 DVD

box 47 object 36


Hanvey, Bobbie. RTE 1 television program featuring him onNationwide, video recording, 2009 March 4Physical Description1 DVD box 47 object 25

Hanvey, Bobbie. RTE 2 television broadcasts of boxer KatieTaylor's Olympic fights, video recording, 2012


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Physical Description1 DVD

box 47 object 43

Photographs of "The Stepping Stones" series of prints byDavid___, before 2000

box 39 folder 9

Unidentified photographers, undated box 39 folder 10

Subseries C: Writings, 1968-2019

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Bielenburg, Christabel. Mountain Near the Sun table of contentsdraft, after 1968

box 39 folder 11

Connor, Noel. "The Bovedy Illuminations" exhibit images andtext, 2009

box 39 folder 12

Connor Noel. Inkwells and Radio Halo Projects, correspondenceand proofs of text and images, 2001

box 39 folder 13


Devlin, Anne. The Forgotten radio play, BBC radio audiorecording, approximately 2009Physical Description1 audio CD box 47 object 35

Enniss, Stephen. After The Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahontypescript, 2012 December 3

box 39 folder 14

Fanning, Gerard. Working for the Government, poems,transcript, before 2006

box 39 folder 15

Foster, John Wilson. "Ulster and the Union" typescript, before2010

box 39 folder 16

Gorman, Michael. "The Month of May" poem typescript, before2019

box 39 folder 17

Grene, Nicholas. Nothing Quite Like It: An American-IrishChildhood typescript, between 2009-2011

box 40 folder 1

Grene, Nicholas. "The Staffman of the Vizards" for The DublinReview, clipping, 2007 June

box 40 folder 2

Hamilton, Hugo. More Homesick Than Seasick, typescript,before 2006

box 40 folder 3-4

Hanna, Adam. "Poetry and the Working Class in NorthernIreland during the Troubles" from A History of Irish Working-Class Writing, proof, circa 2017

box 40 folder 5

Johnson, Maria. "'Gerald Dawe Q and A'- Notes Toward ascript", 2008 February 27

box 40 folder 6


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Kilroy, Thomas. Blake, script and typescript, 2009 box 40 folder 7-8

Kilroy, Thomas. Christ Deliver Us! play typescript, undated box 40 folder 9

Kilroy, Thomas. The Colleen and the Cowboy, a radio play,typescript, 2004

box 40 folder 10

Kilroy, Thomas. My Scandalous Life play typescript, 2000 box 40 folder 11

Kilroy, Thomas. Over the Backyard Wall proof, 2018 August 19 box 40 folder 12

Kilroy, Thomas. Pearse one act script, 2015 box 40 folder 13

Kilroy, Thomas. The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde play script,before 2000

box 41 folder 1

Kilroy, Thomas. The Shape of Metal play script, 2003 box 41 folder 2

Kilroy, Thomas. The Trials of William Shakespeare playtypescript, 2015

box 41 folder 3

Kilroy, Thomas. Quirke Among the Atoms novel, typescript,1999

box 41 folder 4-5

Longley, Michael. Gorse Fires, poems, typescript, 1990February

box 41 folder 6

Longley, Michael. "Songs for Dead Children: Poetry in ViolentTimes ", PEN/Pinter Prize lecture, typescript, 2017

box 41 folder 7

Longley, Michael. "Tarnished Buttons" typescript, 2007-2008 box 41 folder 8

MacIntyre, Tom. Poems - New and Selected typescript, 1996April

box 41 folder 9

MacIntyre, Tom. The Spirit-Chick, poems, typescript, before2006

box 41 folder 10

MacIntyre, Tom. The Stories of the Wandering Moon, poems,typescript, 1996 April

box 41 folder 11

Maclean, Sorley. "Spring Tide" signed reprint, 1980 box 41 folder 12

Mahon, Derek. "Ghostly Rumble Among the Drums" typescript,2007-2008

box 41 folder 13

Mahon, Derek. Harbor Lights, poems, typescript, 2004 box 41 folder 14

McGuinness, Frank. "Oedipus. Sophocles. A Version by FrankMcGuinness" typescript, probably 2008 or 2009

box 42 folder 1


Moore, Brian. Emperor of Ice Cream, probably a radioproduction of the novel, audio recording, between 1965-2018Physical Description2 audio CDs box 47 object 33-34

Moore, Brian. Radio broadcast about the Ulster novelist with aninterview of of him, audio recording, 1985 June 2Physical Description1 audio CD



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box 47 object 4

Murphy, Hayden. "Light" and "Shared Roses," poems, 1991 box 42 folder 2

Murphy, Richard. "Tea with Oliver St John Gogerty" lecturetranscript, 2008 November

box 42 folder 3

O'Grade, Cormae. The Great Famine in Folk Memory and inSong typescript, before 2006

box 42 folder 4

Schwartz, Soibheann, "War and Peace: Tolstoy's DialogicHedgehog", 2016


This unpublished dissertation (Box 42, Folder 5) is closeduntil 2070.

box 42 folder 5

Smith, Kevin. The Voyage of the Dolphin proof, 2015 July 5 box 42 folder 6

Smith, Stan. "Mind Changes: Poets of the Postmodern" fromIrish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity typescript,circa 2005

box 42 folder 7

Smyth, Gerard. "After Easter" poems, typescript, undated box 42 folder 8

Vatne, Erik. "Lesson Street, 1991" poem, 2006 box 42 folder 9

Watson, George. "Critical Theory and Irish Cultural Politics:The Irresistible Rise of Pluralism" typescript, before 2006

box 42 folder 10

Woodward, Guy Thomas. Across the Boundaries: Talking AboutThomas Kilroy, typescript, 2006

box 42 folder 11

Poems by others given to Dawe, 2007 box 42 folder 12

___, Frank. "Donkey Vomit" short story transcript, undated box 42 folder 13

___, Joe. "Navigation" signed typescript, possibly 1976 May box 42 folder 14

___, Peter. Eye to Eye, poetry transcript, 1992 box 42 folder 15

Unidentified author. "Footballers" typescript, before 2019 box 42 folder 16

Unidentified author. "Modernism, Belfast, and TwentiethCentury Ireland" typescript, 2007-2008

box 42 folder 17

Unidentified author. My Life Has Had Its Moments playsynopsis, before 2006

box 42 folder 18

Unidentified author. "Yeats and Dates" lecture typescript, 2005May 12

box 42 folder 19


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