Gerald Dawe Papers 1952-2019 (bulk 1980-2017) MS.2000.016 http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2778
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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
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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 audiovisual recordings) Language of the English and German. Material: Abstract: The papers document the career of twentieth and twenty-first century Irish author Gerald Dawe as a poet, essayist, and academic, and consist of 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.
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
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Gerald Dawe was born on April 22, 1952 in Belfast, Northern Ireland to Norma Fitzgerald Bradshaw and 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 the University of Galway between 1974 and 1978. Dawe married Dorothea Melvin in 1979, and they had two children, Iarla and Olwen.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Dawe contributed reviews and essays on contemporary literature to Threshold, 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 The Younger Irish Poets (1982) and The Poet's Place: Essays on Ulster Literature and Society with John Wilson Foster (1985). In 1986 he founded and served as editor of the literary and cultural journal Krino with Aodan Mac Poilin.
During the following decades Dawe deepened his poetry production and broadened the scope of his publications on Irish literature, culture and history. His extensive output of poetry collections included Sunday School (1991), Heart of Hearts (1995), Lake Geneva (2003), Points West (2008), Selected Poems (2012), Mickey Finn's Air (2014), Early Poems (2015), and The Last Peacock (2019). His criticism comprised: How's the Poetry Going? Literary Politics and Ireland Today (1991), The Rest is 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 Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing (2018). Additionally he wrote books reviews published in both literary 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 and Belfast (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 Trinity College Dublin. In 1996 he created the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity with fellow poet Brendan Kennelly, the first such program in Ireland. He became the director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing in 1999 and was elected a Trinity Fellow in 2004. Dawe held visiting scholar posts at John J. Burns Library at Boston College (2005), Villanova University, Philadelphia (2009), and Pembroke College, 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), Macauley Fellowship for Literature (1984), Hawthornden International Writers' Fellowship (1987), and Ledig- Rowohlt International Writers Fellowship (1999).
Sources
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 5 - "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 Academic OneFile (accessed April 3, 2020). Gale Document Number: GALE|A18266432
"Gerald Dawe." Trinity Writers portal printout, biographical notes about Dawe, Box 1, Folder 2, Gerald Dawe 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 particular modern Irish poets.
Correspondence demonstrates Dawe's friendships and professional exchanges with other Irish authors and documents the administrative aspect of his speaking and publishing career. Notable correspondents include 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 and editorial work, showing his contribution to scholarship at the intersection of Irish poetry, history, and culture. 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, and culminating in release information and reviews for many publications.
Dawe's teaching materials contain his notes for courses on Irish dramatists, novelists, and poets, given at University 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. Works by others.
Series II. is divided into three subseries: A. Artifacts and personal ephemera; B. Literary ephemera; and C. Nora Robertson's scrapbooks.
Series III. is divided into three subseries, A. Peers; and B. Speaking and publishing; and C. Other.
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
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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 further divided into three sub-subseries: 1. Books, 2. Short works, and 3. Reviews. Subseries F. is divided into two sub-subseries: 1. Collections and 2. Individual.
Series X. is divided into two subseries: A. Photographs and B. Writings.
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Series I: Biographical, 1971-2018 Arrangement
Alphabetical.
Articles about Dawe, 1983-2017 box 1 folder 1 Shared box folder 1-2 315
Biographical notes about Dawe by others, 2005-2016 box 1 folder 2
Calendars, 1998-2015 box 1 folder 3-5 Conditions Governing Access box 44
The calendars from 1998, 2014, and 2015 (box 1, folders 3 and 5) are closed until 2052.
Identification cards, 1971-2017 box 1 folder 6
Interviews of Dawe, 1994-2018 box 1 folder 7-8 Shared box folder 3 315
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 Catherine box 1 folder 9 McAuley and school children (only produced between 1993-2002), 1994
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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Memorials, 2008-2018 box 1 folder 14
Northern Irish writers, poster, undated Shared box folder 4 315
Pet passport, 2016 box 1 folder 15
Portstewart Hooley live music recording, 1973 Digital Physical Description content 129039 1 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 box 48 folder 1-13 Scope and Contents
Includes promotional materials and programs for literary events that Dawe attended but at which he did not present.
Arrangement
Chronological.
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 earliest school assignments through his standing as a pulished author, and his background in the context of the political turmoil of Northern Ireland.
Dawe's writing, 1952-2010 box 1 folder 17-19 box 45 volume 1-2
Northern Ireland politics, 1980s-1990s box 2 folder 1-2 box 45 volume 3-7
Series III: Correspondence, 1967-2019
Subseries A: Peers, 1969-2019 Arrangement
Alphabetical.
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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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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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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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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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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 publish individual short works. The papers do not include publishing correspondence or contracts for book-length works.
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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
2012-2019, undated box 10 folder 1-20
Series IV: Editing, 1978-2019 Arrangement
Alphabetical.
Across a Roaring Hill correspondence, typescripts, notes, and box 11 folder 1-3 reviews, 1983-1986
All Out of Shape: The Cúirt Debate on Contemporary Irish box 11 folder 4-5 Poetry, probably 1995
Earth Voices Whispering project planning, proofs, launch speech, box 11 folder 6-11 and reviews, 2004-2016
High Pop: The Irish Times Columns 1970-1976 cover proof and box 11 folder 12 reviews, circa 2008 Shared box folder 5 315
Krino notes and reviews, 1986-1990 box 11 folder 13-14
Krino 1986-1996: An Anthology of Modern Irish Writing Digital discussion on RTE Radio Off the Shelf Book Programme, with content Dawe, Angela Burke, and Fintan O'Toole, 1996 October 24 129070 Physical Description box 46 object 31 1 audio cassette
Krino 1986-1996: An Anthology of Modern Irish Writing reviews box 11 folder 15 and correspondence, 1996-1997
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- Page 15 - The New Younger Irish Poets correspondence, typescripts, and box 11 folder 16-18 reviews, 1990-1991
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, 1995 box 12 folder 3 February
Stewart Parker: dramatis personae and other writings review, box 12 folder 4 circa 2008
"Writing in the West," literary supplement to the Connacht box 12 folder 5-6 Tribune, correspondence and brief history, 1978-1986
Yeats: the Poems reviews and correspondence, 1993 April box 12 folder 7
The Younger Irish Poets correspondence, typescripts, notes, and box 12 folder 8-10 reviews, 1980-1982
Series V: Financials, 1974-2013 box 12 folder 11-12 Conditions Governing Access
The financial records in box 12, folders 11-12 are closed until 2052.
Series VI: Photographs, 1970-2012 Arrangement
Chronological.
Candids of Dawe, 1970s-1980s box 12 folder 13
Head shots, 1970s-1990s box 12 folder 14-15 Shared box folder 6 315
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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Includes drafts of lectures and speeches, a limited amount of related correspondence, event ephemera listing Dawe's participation, and recordings.
Arrangement
Chronological.
Conditions Governing Access
Recordings of events and broadcasts have all 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.
Subseries A: Lectures and Readings, 1978-2019
"Northern Writers" panel discussion at UCG with Dawe, Digital Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, and Seamus Heaney, audio content recording, 1978 December 2 129040 Physical Description box 46 object 2-3 2 audio cassettes
Event ephemera, 1978, 1983 box 13 folder 1-2
Poets in the West: Sydney Bernard Smith, Gerald Dawe, Paul Digital Durcan, Fred Johnston, produced by Fred Johnston, studio content recording of readings with music, 1982 129085 Physical Description box 47 object 3 1 audio CD
Launches and opening remarks, 1984-1996 box 13 folder 3
Introduction to "Experience the Difference" exhibit, Galway, box 13 folder 4 1988 August
Event ephemera, circa 1980s-1990s box 13 folder 5-6
Readings at Garron Tower, Radio Ulster broadcast of the John Digital Hewitt Summer School poetry and prose event, audio recording, content 1990 September 23 129043 Physical Description box 46 object 7 1 audio cassette
"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, 1994 box 13 folder 10 December 4
"Initials," an exhibition of monoprints by Noel Connor, speech, box 13 folder 11 1995 March 24 Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 17 - Reading, typescript, 1995 December 6 box 13 folder 12
Gerald Dawe public interview of Van Morrison at Brangwyn Digital Hall, Swansea, full cut audio recording, 1995 December 7 content Physical Description 129073 1 audio cassette box 46 object 41 Conditions Governing Access
This interview (box 46, object 41) is closed until 2035.
Related Materials
An edited transcription of this interview is available in Dawe's book In Another World.
"There's No Set Thing: Gerald Dawe in Conversation with Van box 13 folder 13 Morrison," UK Year of Literature and Writing Festival, 1995 December 7
"Reading Poetry," address at School of English at Trinity box 13 folder 14 College Dublin, 1996 January 30
"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 November box 13 folder 18 5
Cuirt 1999 reading and unedited interview, audio recording, Digital 1999 content Physical Description 129088 1 audio CD box 47 object 7
Event ephemera, 1999 box 13 folder 19
"Europe: Where's That?," original script for lecture at the British box 13 folder 20 Council Conference, Nicosia, 2000 March 30
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" conference box 13 folder 23 program, 2003 August 23
"Engaging Poems" lecture, Boston College, probably 2005 box 13 folder 24
Event ephemera, 2005 box 13 folder 25
"Odd Man Out" lecture on Padraic Fiacc, Boston College, box 13 folder 26 extract, 2005
"Twilight and War Zones: Belfast as an Imagined Place", before box 13 folder 27 2006
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"'My hierarchy of values': John Hewitt, a critical retrospective" box 13 folder 29 lecture, probably 2006
"Befitting Emblems of Adversity" conference panel, 2007 April box 13 folder 30
"Talking about Writing: A Reading" speaking notes, 2007 May box 13 folder 31 11
An Sionnach reading, closing remarks, 2007 July 4 box 13 folder 32
Event ephemera, 2007 box 13 folder 33
Incorrigibly Plural book launch speech, probably 2007 or 2008 box 13 folder 34
"'Meditation in Time of Civil War': Reading The Story of Lucy box 13 folder 35 Gault" lecture, 2008 April
Event ephemera, 2008 box 13 folder 36
Introductions, probably 2008 box 14 folder 1
"Stewart Parker: Different Backgrounds" talk and introduction box 14 folder 2 to High Pop, probably 2008
Event ephemera, 2009 box 14 folder 3
Introductions, 2009 box 14 folder 4
Thomas Kilroy lecture background material, circa 2009 box 14 folder 5
Belfast lecture and "Laughter and Forgetting: Poems as box 14 folder 6 Afterlives, a Reading", 2009-2010
"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 Christabel box 14 folder 9 Bielenburg" lecture, 2010 April
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 Brief box 14 folder 12 Look Back at the Fifties in Ireland" evening lecture, 2011 March 29
"Across the Boundaries: Talking About Thomas Kilroy" event box 14 folder 13 planning, 2011 April
"John McGahern, a Poetry Lecture", 2011 July box 14 folder 14
Creative Writing in Ireland Symposium, opening address, 2011 box 14 folder 15 October 7
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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- Page 19 - "Across the Boundaries: Talking About Thomas Kilroy" box 14 folder 18 welcome address, 2011
Event ephemera, 2011 box 14 folder 19
Launches, 2011 box 14 folder 20
Dawe reading his prose (annotated "for Lagan website"), audio Digital recording, probably 2011-2012 content Physical Description 129103 1 audio CD box 47 object 29
Event ephemera, 2012 box 14 folder 21
Event ephemera, 2013 box 14 folder 22 Shared box folder 7 315
"Between the Mountains and the Sea: A Reading and a Talk", box 14 folder 23 2014 April 1
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 Ted box 14 folder 26 Hughes", 2014 July
Damien Smyth introduction, Orangefield School, 2014 August box 14 folder 27 22
Event ephemera, 2014 box 15 folder 1-2
"From Dusty Bluebells to Parallax: reading and writing poetry box 15 folder 3 in Northern Ireland" keynote address, 2014
Introductions, 2014 box 15 folder 4
Introductions to Peter Fallon, Cuirt International Festival of box 15 folder 5 Literature, 2015 April
"Fitting In: Thoughts on Goldsmith, Literary Fame and box 15 folder 6 Misfortune", 2015 May
"Ethna Carbery on H Block" for the North Began? Symposium, box 15 folder 7 2015 June
"John Hewitt: Home Worlds" exhibition opening remarks, 2015 box 15 folder 8 June
Trinity College "Love Translations" reading, 2015 September 18 box 15 folder 9
Dermot Healy, Dalkey Archive press launch introductions, 2015 box 15 folder 10 October 22
"Disability and War Literature", circa 2015 box 15 folder 11
Event ephemera, 2015 box 15 folder 12
Introductions, 2015 box 15 folder 13
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 20 - Introductions to Of War and War's Alarms at the Irish box 15 folder 14 Association, 2015
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, 2016 box 15 folder 17 May 23
"Hewitt's Republic: John Hewitt's poetry in the Decade of box 15 folder 18 Commemorations", 2016 July
"Dorothy Molloy" reading, 2016 August 4 box 15 folder 19
Easter 1916 talk, probably 2016 box 15 folder 20
Event ephemera, 2016 box 15 folder 21
Rosie Lavan introduction, probably 2016 box 15 folder 22
"History Lessons: On the Poetry of Seamus Deane" lecture, box 15 folder 23 2017 March 10
"'Wild Things': Creatures in my Poetry" reading, 2017 March box 15 folder 24
"An Outsider in 'Brexitland': Some Observations" seminar box 15 folder 25 lecture, 2017 July 14
Ledwidge Day poetry reading and talk, 2017 July 30 box 15 folder 26
Francis Ledwidge Centenary Seminar organized by Dawe, 2017 box 15 folder 27 October
Event ephemera, 2017 box 15 folder 28
"Fitting In: Thoughts on Goldsmith, Literary Fame and box 15 folder 29 Misfortune" lecture, 2017 or 2018
"The Hand of History", 2018 March box 15 folder 30
Remembrance Sunday address, 2018 November box 15 folder 31
Event ephemera, 2018 box 16 folder 1
"Forty Years of Editing" lecture, 2018 box 16 folder 2
Introductions, 2018 box 16 folder 3
"Missing Voices: Irish Women Poets of the 18th-20th box 16 folder 4 Centuries" seminar organized by Dawe, 2018
"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, 1977 Digital Physical Description content 129064 1 audio cassette
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 21 - box 46 object 33 Side A
Poetry Anthology radio program with Eavan Boland Digital interviewing Dawe, audio recording, 1977 content Physical Description 129065 1 audio cassette box 46 object 33 Side B
Dawe reviewing a play by Geraldine Aron, radio broadcast Digital audio recording, probably 1984 content Physical Description 129055 1 audio cassette box 46 object 18 Side B
"Poetry in Modern Society" radio program, probably 1984 Digital Physical Description content 129054 1 audio cassette box 46 object 18 Side A
Bookmobile radio program presented by Andy O'Mahony with Digital Dawe, Tim Robinson, Des Kenny, Alph McLaughlin, and Pat content O'Brien, audio recording, probably 1985 129053 Physical Description box 46 object 17 1 audio cassette
Interview of Dawe, audio recording, probably 1987 Digital Physical Description content 129060 1 audio cassette box 46 object 23
Readings by Australian poets, with Dawe interviewing Les A. Digital Murray, audio recording, approximately 1987 content Physical Description 129066 1 audio cassette box 46 object 39
Roots and Horizons, Radio Ulster program featuring Dawe, Digital audio recording, 1990 April 22 content Physical Description 129041 1 audio cassette box 46 object 5 Processing Information
Note that while the contents of the full original cassette recording are preserved here, Dawe's contributions don't occur until the second track (from Side B) at about the 10- minute mark.
Writer to Writer, Radio Ulster program on poetry featuring Digital Dawe, Mary Murphy, and Damian Quinn, audio recording, 1990 content May 27 129042 Physical Description box 46 object 6 1 audio cassette
Arts Programme radio broadcast of Dawe and Mike Murphy discussing the Flaming Door arts project for the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, 1991 March 28 Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 22 - Physical Description Digital 1 audio cassette content 129044 box 46 object 8
"Landscape, Literature, and Learning" radio program about the Digital 1990 John Hewitt Summer School, 1990 content Physical Description 129056 1 audio cassette box 46 object 19
"A Coney Island of the Mind," RTE 1 television program on Digital Van Morrison featuring Dawe, video recording, probably 1990 content Physical Description 129077 1 videocassette (VHS) Shared box object 2 14956
The Poet's Voice radio program, 1990 or 1991 Digital Physical Description content 129063 1 audio cassette box 46 object 26
Interview of Dawe by RTE's Andy O'Mahony, audio recording, Digital 1991 June 30 content Physical Description 129045 1 audio cassette box 46 object 9 Side B
"Fife and Drum II" conference, Shankill Road Belfast, live Digital audio recording and BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence content coverage of the conference, 1994 October 2 129047 Physical Description box 46 object 10-11, 1 audio cassette 27
"Beyond the Fife and Drum?" BBC Radio Ulster Sunday box 16 folder 6 Sequence, typescript, 1994
Sunday Sequence, BBC Radio Ulster, typescript, 1995 box 16 folder 7
You're Booked, BBC Radio Ulster program with Dawe Digital discussing Thomas MacDonagh, audio recording, 1996 April 7 content Physical Description 129048 1 audio cassette box 46 object 12
"A Last Inheritor: The Legacy of W.B. Yeats" BBC Belfast box 16 folder 8 radio typescript, 1997 May 19
"A Last Inheritor: The Legacy of W.B. Yeats" on BBC Radio 3, Digital written and presented by Dawe, audio recording of program and content Dawe's interviews with other poets about Yeats, 1997 June 8 129049 Physical Description box 46 object 13, 1 audio cassette 34-38
Radio broadcast on The Rest Is History, audio recording, probably 1998
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 23 - Physical Description Digital 1 data CD content 129087 box 47 object 6
"Rhymescapes, Northern Ireland" radio program with interview Digital of Dawe, audio recording, probably 1998 content Physical Description 129059 1 audio cassette box 46 object 22
BBC Radio 3 broadcast of a reading of Brendan Kennelly's Digital poem "The Man Made of Rain", between 1998-2000 content Physical Description 129062 1 audio cassette box 46 object 25
A Giant at My Shoulder RTE Radio 1 episode featuring Dawe box 16 folder 9 on Van Morrison, typescript, 1999 before June 17
A Giant at My Shoulder RTE Radio 1 episode "Gerald Dawe Digital talks about Van Morrison," audio recording, 1999 June 17 content Physical Description 129074 1 audio cassette box 46 object 42 Conditions Governing Access
This broadcast recording (box 46, object 42) is closed until 2035.
"A Giant at My Shoulder, in conversation with Marian box 16 folder 11 Richardson" RTE Radio 1 edited transcript, 1999 probably June
Lyric Notes broadcast of Dawe reading and discussing his Digital poetry, including The Morning Train, audio recording, 1999 content Physical Description 129052 1 audio cassette box 46 object 16
Ebony and Ivory radio program, Flash Radio, Prešov, Slovakia, Digital 1999 March 23 content Physical Description 129061 1 audio cassette box 46 object 24
Dawe reading "Human Wishes" and brief interview by O'Dulin, Digital audio recording, before 2000 content Physical Description 129058 1 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, 2000 January 19
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 24 - Physical Description Digital 1 audio cassette content 129057 box 46 object 20
The Armchair Traveler series, "By Lake Geneva", RTE Radio Digital audio recording, 2001 July 14 content Physical Description 129050 1 audio cassette box 46 object 14
The Enchanted Way program, RTE Radio 1, host David Hanly Digital and Dawe discussing "the Protestant imagination", audio content recording, 2003 June 7 129089 Physical Description box 47 object 8 1 audio CD
"Arnold Bax: The Real O'Byrne" BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature Digital with commentary by Dawe, audio recording, 2003 August 24 content Physical Description 129090 1 audio CD box 47 object 9
The Poem and the Place RTE radio program: "King John's Digital Castle" by Thomas Kinsella, audio recording, 2003 November content 20 129091 Physical Description box 47 object 10 1 audio CD
The Poem and the Place RTE radio program: "Glencormley" by Digital Derek Mahon, audio recording, 2003 December 18 content Physical Description 129092 1 audio CD box 47 object 11
The Poet's Chair, with a Dawe reading and interview by Alan Digital Titley, produced for Poetry Ireland Educational Programmes, content video recording, 2003 129078 Physical Description Shared box object 3 1 videocassette (VHS) 14956
The Poem and the Place RTE radio program: "Human Wishes" Digital by Gerald Dawe, audio recording, 2004 February 11 content Physical Description 129093 1 audio CD box 47 object 12
"How the East Was Sung," BBC Belfast documentary, video Digital recording, 2004 content Physical Description 129079 2 videocassettes (VHS) Shared box object 4 14956
"Talking of Dreams" radio dramatization script, 2004 box 16 folder 12
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 25 - "The Celt, the Cat, and the Cave," BBC Radio 3 program about Digital Louis MacNeice, audio recording, 2007 September 9 content Physical Description 129094 1 audio CD box 47 object 16
ArtZone RTE Lyric FM program with Dawe interview on war Digital poetry, audio recording, 2007 December 14 content Physical Description 129095 1 audio CD box 47 object 17
Lyric Notes "Quiet Quarter," RTE Lyric FM radio program Digital segments featuring Dawe's Boston poems, audio recording, 2008 content April-August 129096 Physical Description box 47 object 18 1 audio CD
The Poetry Programme RTE Radio program hosted by Digital Dawe, "Captivating Brightness" Christmas day episode, 2008 content December 25 129097 Physical Description box 47 object 21-22 2 audio CDs
Texts for Lyric FM radio, typescripts, probably 2008 box 16 folder 13
Dawe radio program schedule, possibly for The Poetry box 16 folder 14 Programme, 2008
The Poetry Programme reviews, clippings, 2008 box 16 folder 16
The Poetry Programme second series, notes and draft box 16 folder 15 introductions, 2008
RTE Sunday Miscellany scripts, 2009-2010 box 16 folder 17
Arts Tonight RTE radio program on J. G. Farrell, with Dawe, Digital Lavinia Greacen, Bridget O'Toole, Peter Straus, and Owen Roe, content audio recording, 2010 September 6 129101 Physical Description box 47 object 26 1 audio CD
BBC "Thought for the day," scripts, 2011 January box 16 folder 18
BBC talk on Northern Ireland writers, notes and ephemera, 2011 box 16 folder 19 September
Arts Extra, BBC Radio Ulster program with interview of Dawe Digital about publishing Selected Poems, audio recording, 2012 June 7 content Physical Description 129104 1 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
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 26 - Physical Description Digital 1 audio CD content 129111 box 47 object 38
BBC "Three Minds at War: Francis Ledwidge," typescript, 2016 box 16 folder 20 April 13
BBC "Thought for the day" on "time," typescript, before 2017 box 16 folder 21 March
Lyric FM poetry reading, typescript, probably 2018 box 16 folder 22
"Poets and Writers," BBC Northern Ireland, published program, box 16 folder 23 undated
Series VIII: Teaching, 1978-2005, undated Arrangement
Alphabetical.
The Anglo-Irish Novel, course lectures, University College box 16 folder 24 Galway, 1978-1979
Contemporary Irish Drama, course lectures, undated box 16 folder 25
Irish Literature in the European context, lecture notes and box 16 folder 26 reference materials, 1990-2000
Making History, course lectures on Boucicault and Wilde, Trinity box 16 folder 27 College Dublin, 1988-circa 2002
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, 2005 box 17 folder 4 March
Poets and Dramatists, course lectures, Trinity College Dublin, box 17 folder 5 1993
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, box 17 folder 8 1979, undated
Wednesday night writing workshop, undated box 17 folder 9
Series IX: Writing, 1960-2019
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 27 - 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 box 18 folder 1-10 Conditions Governing Access
The diaries in box 18 are closed until 2052.
Arrangement
Chronological.
Subseries C: Nonfiction, 1974-2019
Sub-Subseries 1: Books, 1990-2019 Arrangement
Alphabetical.
Against Piety: Essays in Irish Poetry reviews and box 19 folder 1 correspondence, 1995-1996
The Burning Ground review, 2002 July 18 box 19 folder 2
Catching the Light: Views and Interviews typescript, reviews, box 19 folder 3-5 and interview, 2002-2009
Conversations: Poets and Poetry, 1981-2010 proofs and final box 19 folder 6-7 draft, 2011
How's the Poetry Going?: Literary Politics and Ireland Today box 19 folder 8-9 typescript and reviews, 1990-1994
In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast proofs, extracts, box 19 folder 10-11 and reviews, 2017-2018
"Inishbafin: Portrait of an Island" book proposal, 1992-1994 box 19 folder 12
Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles typescripts, 2019 box 19 folder 13 box 20 folder 1
My Mother-city proofs, extracts, reviews, 2007-2008 box 20 folder 2-4 Shared box folder 11 315
Of War and Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing box 20 folder 5-8 drafts, extracts, correspondence, and notes, 2013-2016
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 28 - The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry and Politics typescript, box 20 folder 9 publication planning, launch notes, and reviews, 2006-2007 box 21 folder 1-4
The Proper Word, Fintan O'Toole launch address at Trinity Digital College Dublin, audio recording, 2007 June 18 content Physical Description 129071 1 audio cassette box 46 object 32
The Rest is History drafts, correspondence, launch, and box 21 folder 5-9 reviews, 1997-1999 box 22 folder 1-3
The Rest Is History book launch at Abbey Grammar School, Digital Newry, video recording, 1998 February 6 content Physical Description 129076 1 videocassette (VHS) Shared box object 1 14956
The Stoic Man cover and press releases, 2015 box 22 folder 4
Stray Dogs and Dark Horses: Selected Essays on Irish Writing box 22 folder 5-9 an Criticism proofs, reviews, and correspondence, 1998-2000 box 23 folder 1-2
Under the Table, extract "Sylvia in Belfast", probably 2010 or box 23 folder 3 2011
"The War Next Door" typescript, between 2003-2005 box 23 folder 4
The World as Province: Selected Prose, 1980-2008 typescript, box 23 folder 5-8 proofs, and reviews, 2008-2012
The Wrong Country: Reflections on Irish Writing corrected box 23 folder 9 and annotated typescript, 2017
Sub-Subseries 2: Reviews, 1977-2017 box 24 folder 1-16 Arrangement Shared box folder 9-10 315 Chronological.
Sub-Subseries 3: Short Works, 1974-2019 Arrangement
Chronological, with a single set of collected clippings of newspaper articles before typescripts of individual works.
Article clippings, 1975-2018 box 25 folder 1 Shared box folder 8 315
Letters to press/Early criticism, 1974-1977 box 25 folder 2
Letter to the Editor regarding peace process, with background box 25 folder 3 materials, 1977-1994, undated Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 29 - "Charles Donnelly: 1931-1937" typescript and notes, circa box 25 folder 4 1970s
"Changing Habitations: A Review of Poetry in Ireland box 25 folder 5 Today", after 1980
"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 Dawe box 25 folder 8 interview, 1983, 1990
"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 the box 25 folder 12 Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith:, after 1984
"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, box 25 folder 23 1980s-1990s
"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: Early box 25 folder 27 Poems, 1993
"Double Identities: Gerald Dawe in Conversation with W.J. box 25 folder 28 McCormack and Hugh Maxton", 1993
"Letter from Ireland" clipping, 1993 box 25 folder 29
"'Remembering McGarvey': A Note on Brian Friel's Faith box 25 folder 30 Healer", 1993
"After the Event", 1994 Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 30 - 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 Conversation box 25 folder 40 with Van Morrison…", 1995
"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 Derek box 25 folder 51 Mahon" typescript and notes, circa 1998
"The Northern Complex", 1998 box 25 folder 52
"A Question of Covenants: Poetry as Commemoration", box 26 folder 1 probably 1998
"'What's the Story?' Irish Writing and British Studies", box 26 folder 2 1998-1999
Obituary of Roy McFadden, typescript and clipping, 1999 box 26 folder 3 September 25
"Kilroy's Wilde: On The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde", box 26 folder 4 2000
"Peter Bielenberg: An Appreciation" typescript and clipping, box 26 folder 5 2001 March 22
Christabel and Peter Bielenberg Funeral programs and box 26 folder 6 background, 2001-2003
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 31 - "Fortnight" typescript and clipping, 2003 box 26 folder 7
"History Class: Northern Poetry, 1970-1982" proof for New box 26 folder 8 Hibernia Review and background material, 2003
"History Class: On Northern Poetry, 1970-1982", 2003 box 26 folder 9
"The Language War: Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People, box 26 folder 10 2003
"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 Wild box 26 folder 14 Duck, between 2003-2006
"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, between box 26 folder 20 2006-2009
"Stewart Parker: Different Backgrounds" lecture and box 26 folder 21 background materials including Stewart Parker Different Backgrounds and Other Writings, 2008
"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 Oxford box 26 folder 24 Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry typescript and notes, 2008
"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, box 26 folder 27 2009
Preface to Hombre, poems by Gerard Fanning, 2011 February box 26 folder 28
"Unhealthy Intersection: an essay" for The Stinging Fly box 27 folder 1 typescript and clipping, 2011
"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
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 32 - "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's box 27 folder 12 Poems", 2015
"'Days of Burned Countryside': Public and Private Wars, box 27 folder 13 1975-1985" from Eaven Boland: Inside History typescript and proof, probably 2016
Epilogue for an anthology on Bangor, Northern Ireland, 2016 box 27 folder 14 October
"Ethna Carbery on H Block" typescript and clippings, 2016 box 27 folder 15
Seamus Heaney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography box 27 folder 16 entry, contract, correspondence, and typescripts, 2016
"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, box 27 folder 20 2017
Reflection on editing The Cambridge Companion to Irish box 27 folder 21 Poets, 2017
"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" manuscript box 27 folder 24 notes, undated
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
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 33 - 2009-2016
2014-2018, undated box 32 folder 1-6
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 at box 32 folder 10 University College Galway, 1980 May
Subseries F: Poems, 1970-2019
Sub-Subseries 1: Collections, 1971-2019 Arrangement
Alphabetical.
"The Bay Tree: Selected Poems 1973-2008" typescripts, 2008 box 32 folder 11-12 or 2009
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 Hugo box 33 folder 1-2 Hamilton, 2018
Early Poems final proofs, 2015 April box 33 folder 3
Heart of Hearts typescript, proof, reviews, and box 33 folder 4-5 correspondence, 1994-1996
Heart of Hearts reviews on BBC Radio Ulster You're Booked Digital and The Arts Show, audio recordings, 1995 content Physical Description 129069 2 audio cassettes box 46 object 29-30
Heritages correspondence and typescripts, 1975 box 33 folder 6-7
Lake Geneva manuscripts, typescripts, reviews, and box 33 folder 8-11 correspondence, 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, and box 34 folder 1-9 correspondence, 1971-1986
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 34 - Mickey Finn's Air typescripts, proofs, dummy book, box 34 folder 10-16 interviews, reviews, launch materials, and correspondence, 2008-2015
Mickey Finn's Air, 2008-2015 box 35 folder 1-2
The Morning Train manuscripts, typescripts, reviews, and box 35 folder 3-7 correspondence, 1993-2002
The Night Fountain correspondence, manuscript, typescripts, box 35 folder 8-15 and proofs, 1999-2008
"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
Selected Poems typescripts, proofs, launch materials, and box 36 folder 9-13 reviews, 2011-2012 Shared box folder 12 315
Selected Poems read by Dawe, audio recording, 2012 July Digital Physical Description content 129105 2 audio CDs box 47 object 31-32
Sheltering Places manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, box 37 folder 1-7 and reviews, 1973-1979
Sheltering Places revised edition, proofs and blurbs, 2008 box 37 folder 8-10
Sunday School reading, audio recording, 1991 June 30 Digital Physical Description content 129045 1 audio cassette box 46 object 9 Side A
Sunday School and How's the Poetry Going review on BBC Digital radio, probably 1991 content Physical Description 129068 1 audio cassette box 46 object 28
Sunday School manuscripts, typescripts, and reviews, circa box 37 folder 11-14 1991-1992
The Visible World or Die Sichtbare Welt typescripts, proofs, box 37 folder 15-17 and launch materials, probably 2007-2008
The Visible World or Die Sichtbare Welt typescripts, proofs, box 38 folder 1 and launch materials, probably 2007-2008
The Water Table, 1991 November box 38 folder 2
Sub-Subseries 2: Individual Poems, 1970-2017
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 35 - 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 Shalom box 38 folder 10 Belfast program, 2000
"Deja Vu: in memory of Terence Chartres Bradshaw" box 38 folder 11 typescript, proof, and photograph, 2001-2009
Pied-a-terre manuscripts (published as Kore broadsheet #13), box 38 folder 12 circa 2006
"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, box 38 folder 15 typescript and background material, 2015
"The Water Table" typescript for The Hearts Core, 2016 box 38 folder 16
Subseries G: Reference materials, box 42 folder 20 1991-2015, undated Scope and Contents
Includes essays and articles not affiliated with a particular writing project but which Dawe felt had enduring value in understanding his papers.
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
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 36 - Series X: Works by others, 1968-2019
Subseries A: Criticism of Dawe, 1994-2007 Arrangement
Chronological.
"Uneasy Domesticity: The Poetry of Gerald Dawe" by David box 38 folder 22 Gardiner, in Eire-Ireland, 1994 Summer
"A special issue dedicated to the work of Gerald Dawe," by box 38 folder 23 multiple authors in An Sionnach, 2006-2007 box 39 folder 1-5 Shared box folder 13 315
Subseries B: Photographs and films, before 2000-2004 Arrangement
Alphabetical.
Conditions Governing Access
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
Graham, Godfrey, and Odran Walsh. "Behind the Closed Eye: box 39 folder 8 Francis Ledwidge" video recording, 2017 Physical Description Digital content 1 DVD 129025
Hanvey, Bobbie. Photographs, 2009-2019 Shared box folder 14-15 315
Hanvey, Bobbie. Profile on UTV television, 1995 Digital Physical Description content 129109 1 DVD box 47 object 36
Hanvey, Bobbie. RTE 1 television program featuring him on Digital Nationwide, video recording, 2009 March 4 content Physical Description 129100 1 DVD box 47 object 25
Hanvey, Bobbie. RTE 2 television broadcasts of boxer Katie Taylor's Olympic fights, video recording, 2012
Gerald Dawe Papers MS.2000.016
- Page 37 - Physical Description Digital 1 DVD content 129112 box 47 object 43
Photographs of "The Stepping Stones" series of prints by box 39 folder 9 David___, before 2000
Unidentified photographers, undated box 39 folder 10
Subseries C: Writings, 1968-2019 Arrangement
Alphabetical.
Bielenburg, Christabel. Mountain Near the Sun table of contents box 39 folder 11 draft, after 1968
Connor, Noel. "The Bovedy Illuminations" exhibit images and box 39 folder 12 text, 2009
Connor Noel. Inkwells and Radio Halo Projects, correspondence box 39 folder 13 and proofs of text and images, 2001
Devlin, Anne. The Forgotten radio play, BBC radio audio Digital recording, approximately 2009 content Physical Description 129108 1 audio CD box 47 object 35
Enniss, Stephen. After The Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon box 39 folder 14 typescript, 2012 December 3
Fanning, Gerard. Working for the Government, poems, box 39 folder 15 transcript, before 2006
Foster, John Wilson. "Ulster and the Union" typescript, before box 39 folder 16 2010
Gorman, Michael. "The Month of May" poem typescript, before box 39 folder 17 2019
Grene, Nicholas. Nothing Quite Like It: An American-Irish box 40 folder 1 Childhood typescript, between 2009-2011
Grene, Nicholas. "The Staffman of the Vizards" for The Dublin box 40 folder 2 Review, clipping, 2007 June
Hamilton, Hugo. More Homesick Than Seasick, typescript, box 40 folder 3-4 before 2006
Hanna, Adam. "Poetry and the Working Class in Northern box 40 folder 5 Ireland during the Troubles" from A History of Irish Working- Class Writing, proof, circa 2017
Johnson, Maria. "'Gerald Dawe Q and A'- Notes Toward a box 40 folder 6 script", 2008 February 27
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Kilroy, Thomas. Christ Deliver Us! play typescript, undated box 40 folder 9
Kilroy, Thomas. The Colleen and the Cowboy, a radio play, box 40 folder 10 typescript, 2004
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, box 41 folder 1 before 2000
Kilroy, Thomas. The Shape of Metal play script, 2003 box 41 folder 2
Kilroy, Thomas. The Trials of William Shakespeare play box 41 folder 3 typescript, 2015
Kilroy, Thomas. Quirke Among the Atoms novel, typescript, box 41 folder 4-5 1999
Longley, Michael. Gorse Fires, poems, typescript, 1990 box 41 folder 6 February
Longley, Michael. "Songs for Dead Children: Poetry in Violent box 41 folder 7 Times ", PEN/Pinter Prize lecture, typescript, 2017
Longley, Michael. "Tarnished Buttons" typescript, 2007-2008 box 41 folder 8
MacIntyre, Tom. Poems - New and Selected typescript, 1996 box 41 folder 9 April
MacIntyre, Tom. The Spirit-Chick, poems, typescript, before box 41 folder 10 2006
MacIntyre, Tom. The Stories of the Wandering Moon, poems, box 41 folder 11 typescript, 1996 April
Maclean, Sorley. "Spring Tide" signed reprint, 1980 box 41 folder 12
Mahon, Derek. "Ghostly Rumble Among the Drums" typescript, box 41 folder 13 2007-2008
Mahon, Derek. Harbor Lights, poems, typescript, 2004 box 41 folder 14
McGuinness, Frank. "Oedipus. Sophocles. A Version by Frank box 42 folder 1 McGuinness" typescript, probably 2008 or 2009
Moore, Brian. Emperor of Ice Cream, probably a radio Digital production of the novel, audio recording, between 1965-2018 content Physical Description 129107 2 audio CDs box 47 object 33-34
Moore, Brian. Radio broadcast about the Ulster novelist with an Digital interview of of him, audio recording, 1985 June 2 content Physical Description 129086 1 audio CD
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Murphy, Hayden. "Light" and "Shared Roses," poems, 1991 box 42 folder 2
Murphy, Richard. "Tea with Oliver St John Gogerty" lecture box 42 folder 3 transcript, 2008 November
O'Grade, Cormae. The Great Famine in Folk Memory and in box 42 folder 4 Song typescript, before 2006
Schwartz, Soibheann, "War and Peace: Tolstoy's Dialogic box 42 folder 5 Hedgehog", 2016 Conditions Governing Access
This unpublished dissertation (Box 42, Folder 5) is closed until 2070.
Smith, Kevin. The Voyage of the Dolphin proof, 2015 July 5 box 42 folder 6
Smith, Stan. "Mind Changes: Poets of the Postmodern" from box 42 folder 7 Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity typescript, circa 2005
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: box 42 folder 10 The Irresistible Rise of Pluralism" typescript, before 2006
Woodward, Guy Thomas. Across the Boundaries: Talking About box 42 folder 11 Thomas Kilroy, typescript, 2006
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 Twentieth box 42 folder 17 Century Ireland" typescript, 2007-2008
Unidentified author. My Life Has Had Its Moments play box 42 folder 18 synopsis, before 2006
Unidentified author. "Yeats and Dates" lecture typescript, 2005 box 42 folder 19 May 12
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