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AUTHORS, IRISH

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~AUTHORS, IRISH~

• Alan Brownjohn's Writers in Education Questionnaire Annotated Responses, and Photographs, 1979-1996 [RB&M]
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  23 responses from British and Irish poets, novelists, and playwrights requesting their views on writers' fellowships in academic institutions; 8 photos of Brownjohn.
  
  
• Colley Cibber Letter to Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington, 1747 June 29 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's letter encouraging her to write her memoirs and refers to his own Character and Conduct of Cicero Considered.
  
  
• Maria Edgeworth Letters and Engraving of Her House, circa 1815-1835 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's five letters with personal news and about writers and publications, and engraving.
  
  
• Monk Gibbon Letter to Ellis Roberts, and Printed Ballad, 1930-1934 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's letter about his Austrian surroundings with questions and commentary about the poem "The Cynic," and printed poem, A Ballad.
  
  
• Lady Augusta Gregory Letters, 1915 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's three letters to Mrs. [Ellen] Duncan [curator of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art], about the gallery and mentioning W.B. Yeats, and one to Miss Jenny Hicks about a play.
  
  
• George Moore Letter to the Editor of The Daily Chronicle, 1915 January 8 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's letter about impeding German propaganda in Ireland.
  
  
• George Moore Letters, Page and Galley Proofs, and Photocopy of Suppressed Chapter, 1890-1969 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's 11 letters about his plays, and two manuscripts: "An imaginary conversation" between Moore and Edmund Gosse, and photocopies of the suppressed chapter of Moore's Memoirs of My Dead Life.
  
  
• Lady Sydney Morgan Letters, 1806-1843 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's five letters about her work.
  
  
• Frank O'Connor Letters to Robert Greacen, circa 1946 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's business letters in an informal tone on the subject of short stories by O'Connor that Greacen may have been interested in publishing.
  
  
• Seán O'Faoláin Letter to Jon Carroll and Typescript Foreword, 1946-1964 [RB&M]
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  Letter about writers writing, and unpublished foreword by O'Faoláin for Anthony Trollope's The Warden.
  
  
• Bernard Shaw Letters and Papers, 1892-1969 [RB&M]
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  22 items by or about the Irish author.
  
  
• George Bernard Shaw Letters and Manuscripts, 1906-1940 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's eleven letters and cards about his plays, and views on politics and Germany, and unaired, proposed 1940 radio broadcast with unorthodox views on Adolf Hitler, Germany, Britain, and World War II.
  
  
• Jack B. Yeats Letter a cara [to my friend], 1930 January [RB&M]
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  Irish artist's letter containing personal news.
  
  
• William Butler Yeats Letters and Memorandum, 1891-1933 [RB&M]
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  Irish author's five short letters concerning a translation, invitation, a meeting, and a memorandum about plans for the money he received for the Irish Academy of Letters.
  

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