THE FIELD DAY ARCHIVE

CORMAC O DUIBHNE

Field Day Publications Dublin 2007 Cormac Ó Duibhne has asserted his right under the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000, to be identified as the author of this work.

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CONTENTS

Buíochas vi

Introduction 1

Chronology 7

The Field Day Archive

General Contents 13

Detailed Listings 21

How to Use the Archive 159

Locations of Other Resources 163

Appendix: People Associated with Field Day 165 vi The Field Day Archive

BUÍOCHAS

Thug Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, David Hammond, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kilroy, Tom Paulin agus Stephen Rea tacaíocht agus dea-thoil don tógra seo ón tús.

Bhí Norah Campbell, Marion Deane, Claire Kelley agus Kathryn Kozarits ina gcuidiú agam agus páipéir, grianghrafanna, fístéipeanna agus ábhair eile sa Chartlann á rangnú agus á gcur in ord agam. Chuidigh Jessica Dougherty McMichael, Heather Edwards, Michael O’Connor agus Cheman Roy liom fosta agus an obair sin idir lámha agam. Chuir Breandán Mac Suibhne comhairle orm fá ghnéithe éagsúla den tógra.

D’aistrigh Manus McManus agus Sunniva O’Flynn, Irish Film Archive, agus Darby agus Mercedes Carroll fístéipeanna agus scannáin go foirm leictreonach. Bhain mé tairbhe as saineolas agus cabhair na ndaoine seo: Stephen Ball agus Peter Kenny, Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann, Sara Smyth agus Eugene Hogan, Cartlann Náisiúnta Grianghrafadóireachta, Katerina Gotsi, Eamonn Deane, Colette Nelis, Ciarán Deane agus Pat Loughrey. Caroline Moloney a dhearaigh cuid den leabhar seo agus a d’aistrigh cuid mhór de na grianghrafanna. Thug Robert South agus David Anderson ó Nicholson and Bass cabhair mhór dom chomh maith.

Gabhaim buíochas croí leo go léir.

CÓD Iúil 2007

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INTRODUCTION

A Brief History of Field Day

The Field Day Theatre Company was founded in MacAdam Travelling Theatre (1991), Stewart Parker’s September 1980 by playwright Brian Friel and Pentecost (1987) and Northern Star (1998), Terry actor Stephen Rea. The immediate objective was to Eagleton’s Saint Oscar (1989), Seamus Heaney’s stage Friel’s latest play, Translations . The name of The Cure at Troy (1990, after Philoctetes by the company is a play on the surnames of its two Sophocles), and Frank McGuinness’s adaptation of founders, although the phrase’s other resonances Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (1995). Stephen Rea either were undoubtedly also in mind. Four new directors directed or played the lead role in all but two of were named in August 1981 – academic and poet these plays ( High Time and The Madame MacAdam Seamus Deane, folk singer and filmmaker David Travelling Theatre ). Field Day also produced two Hammond, poet Seamus Heaney, and academic rehearsed readings – David Rudkin’s Cries from and poet Tom Paulin. The board of directors Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin (1992) expanded to seven members in 1988 with the co- and John Berger and Nella Bielski’s Goya’s Last option of playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy. Portrait (1994). From 1981 to 1999 Field Day maintained an administrative office in Derry that coordinated the Field Day has also been a publishing company various contributions of the directors and the many since 1983, when Heaney’s Sweeney Astray and the others involved in the company. first set of three Field Day Pamphlets were published. Four more sets of pamphlets followed, The primary business of Field Day at its inception the last appearing in 1988. While three of the was theatre. In all, the company staged 16 directors contributed pamphlets, most were productions in the period 1980 to 1998. The first written on a once-off basis by outside contributors, three were plays by Friel: Translations (1980), Three including academics, lawyers and cultural critics. Sisters (1981, adapted from Anton Chekhov) and Some of the pamphlets have also been published in The Communication Cord (1982). Friel also book form. Field Day’s publishing activity was contributed Making History in 1988. The opening largely separate from its theatrical productions, of Translations in September 1980 set a pattern for although two plays were published as books – nearly all future productions to open in that Eagleton’s Saint Oscar (1989) and Heaney’s The month and continue into late December or early Cure at Troy (1990). A book of essays to mark the January. In 1983, Boesman and Lena , by the South 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Revising the African Athol Fugard was staged. 1984 saw Field Rising , was brought out in 1991. Also published in Day’s only double bill, with Tom Paulin’s The Riot that year were the first three volumes in the large- Act (based on Sophocles’ Antigone ) and Derek scale Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing , edited by Mahon’s High Time (based on Molière’s School for Deane. A further two volumes devoted entirely to Husbands ). Subsequent productions were Thomas women’s writing, co-edited by a panel of eight, Kilroy’s Double Cross (1986) and The Madame came out in 2002 to address perceived short- comings in the first three volumes. The other directors dropped and a series of resignations major publishing venture embarked on by Field ensued. The result is that since 1999 Field Day has Day is the Critical Conditions series of 16 continued with only two active directors on the monographs and collections of essays on aspects of board: Deane and Rea. No theatre has been Irish culture and history, published between 1996 produced between 1999 and 2007, the time of and 2006. The Field Day Review , an annual journal writing. The company closed its Derry office in of Irish studies was launched in 2005. The first two 1996 and had no dedicated administrative home monographs of the Field Day Files series were from then until 2004, when an office for Field Day published in 2006, as were the first two books Publications opened in Dublin in partnership with in the Field Day Music series. Publication dates the Keough Institute for Irish Studies at the of 2007 and beyond have been set for new editions University of Notre Dame. For the time being at of several English- and Irish-language works dating least, all of Field Day’s energies are concentrated from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. on publishing.

The early 1990s saw a decline in Field Day’s THIS PAGE: BRENDA SCALLON AND LIAM NEESON IN theatrical activity and the beginning of the end of TRANSLATIONS BY BRIAN FRIEL (1980). the first phase of the company’s existence. For PREVIOUS PAGE: FRONT COVER OF NATIONALISM, various personal and professional reasons, COLONIALISM AND LITERATURE, CO-PUBLISHED BY participation and commitment among the FIELD DAY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS IN 1990. 4 The Field Day Archive

What the Archive Contains

The material that makes up the Field Day Archive printed matter (flyers, handbills, etc.). Among these covers all aspects of the company’s activities, in are hundreds of original documents produced by many cases in minute detail. The material came the seven Field Day directors. The regular-format from three main sources. First, by far the majority paper documents, including nearly all Field Day of the material was held on file by administrators publications, fill around 50 archival boxes. and other staff at the Derry office and elsewhere from the company’s foundation in 1980 until 1999. A small proportion of these documents have been Secondly, a smaller amount of material was transferred to digital formats and are available in donated to the Archive from Seamus Deane’s section IV.xv of the Archive. Items that have been personal records and from Stephen Rea’s personal digitized in this way are indicated throughout the papers. Finally, some material was recovered from Detailed Listings section of this catalogue. the Dublin office in the period 2004 to 2006. While the material from Deane has been arranged in a The Field Day archive is unusually rich in non- separate section of the Archive (section IX), all the paper items. These include: other material has been integrated into other G comprehensive set of cuttings from Irish sections. national and local press, sorted by date (1980 to 1992 and 1995) The distances that separated the company directors from the office and from each other G hundreds of cuttings from Irish national influenced not just the way that the company and local press and international press, conducted its business (for example, it was often (1990 to 1994 and 1996 to 2006) difficult to convene all directors), but also the form G 27 quarter-inch audio tapes; recordings of that the Archive has taken (for example, letters various theatrical productions and faxes were the main modes of communi- cation). None of the directors lived in Derry; G 24 audio cassette tapes; recordings of press Deane and Heaney have permanent homes in coverage, etc. Dublin, Friel lives in Donegal, Kilroy lives near Galway and Paulin lives in Britain, while Rea lived G 12 film reels (16mm); recordings of BBC in London in the early years of Field Day and then Arena documentary and of Double Cross later on in Dublin. (1986); film transcripts G 10 VHS video tapes; recordings of Approximately three quarters of the Field Day performances, TV documentaries, etc. Archive comprise paper documents, notably letters and associated documents, faxes, proofs for G approximately 300 posters, flyers, etc. for publications, theatre scripts, design material and Field Day productions and other events Introduction 5

BOX OFFICE RECEIPTS FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE PERFORMANCES OF A NON-FIELD DAY PRODUCTION OF SEAMUS HEANEY’S THE CURE AT TROY AT THE THEATER OHNE NAME, BERLIN, IN SEPTEMBER 1992. THE AUDIENCE NUMBERS FOR THE THREE NIGHTS (15, 14 AND 7) INDICATE THE SCALE OF THE PRODUCTION. 6 The Field Day Archive

G photographic prints, almost all black and miscellaneous printed matter has. A large number white, mostly of theatrical productions; also of photographs are included in digital format in literary events and portraits the archive, but most of the original prints are not part of the Archive. The audio tapes and film material were transferred to digital format in their entirety and are made available in the Archive. No posters or newspaper STEPHEN REA IN THE TITLE ROLE OF FRANK cuttings have been transferred, although some McGUINNESS’S UNCLE VANYA (1995) . Heading to be changed 7

CHRONOLOGY 8 The Field Day Archive

FIELD DAY CHRONOLOGY

1980–2007

Note that while the information given here is as correct as possible, a lack of solid sources for some dates may have resulted in inaccuracies in the following.

1980 14 Feb. Screening of Sean Ó Mórdha documentary 19 Aug. Field Day founded at first meeting of on Brian Friel and Field Day on RTE. the board of directors. Directors are Brian Friel and Stephen Rea. Company secretary is Paddy 15 Sept. Publication of Set 1 of Field Day Woodworth. Pamphlets: Civilians and Barbarians by Seamus Deane, A New Look at the Language Question by Tom 23 Sept. Premiere of Translations by Brian Friel, dir. Paulin and An Open Letter by Seamus Heaney. Art O Briain, lead role by Stephen Rea. 20 Sept. Premiere of Field Day production of Boesman and Lena by Athol Fugard, dir. Clare 1981 Davidson, lead role by Stephen Rea. 1 Feb. Paddy Woodworth resigns and Noel McKenna takes over as company secretary. 10 Nov. Publication of Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney. 3 Aug. Extraordinary meeting of company to pass a special resolution to gain charitable status and to 1984 appoint four new members: Seamus Deane, David 25 May Publication of Set 2 of Field Day Pamphlets: Hammond, Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin. Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea by Seamus Deane, Myth and Motherland by Richard Kearney 8 Sept. Premiere of Three Sisters by Brian Friel, and Anglo-Irish Attitudes by Declan Kiberd. Launch adapted from Anton Chekhov, dir. Stephen Rea. in Orchard Gallery, Derry.

1982 19 Sept. Premiere of The Riot Act by Tom Paulin, dir. Stephen Rea and High Time by Derek Mahon, 21 Sept.–Nov. 13 by Brian The Communication Cord dir. Emil Wolk and Mark Long. Friel, dir. Joe Dowling, lead role by Stephen Rea. 1985 10 Dec. Noel McKenna resigns. 24 Jan. Seamus Deane delivers lecture on Field Day 1983 at Magee College, Derry. 9 Jan. Julie Barber becomes company secretary. 17 May Publication of The Protestant Idea of Liberty , Chronology 9

Set 3 of Field Day Pamphlets: The Whole Protestant 20 Sept.–22 Nov. Field Day production of Making Community: The Making of a Historical Myth by History by Brian Friel, dir. Simon Curtis, lead role Terence Brown, Watchmen in Sion: The Protestant by Stephen Rea. Idea of Liberty by Marianne Elliott and Liberty and Authority in Ireland by Robert McCartney. Launch in 9 Dec. Publication of Nationalism, Colonialism and Linenhall Library, Belfast. Literature , Set 5 of Field Day Pamphlets: Modernism and Imperialism by Fredric Jameson, Nationalism: Oct./Nov. Ireland’s Field Day published in Irony and Commitment by Terry Eagleton and Yeats association with Hutchinson. and Decolonization by Edward Said.

1986 10 Dec. Narratives: An Evening of Poetry, Music and Prose , with Deane, Paulin, Heaney, Hammond, Arty 11 Jan. An Evening of Poetry, Music and Song at McGlynn and Nollaig O’Casey at Royal Festival Guildhall, Derry. Hall, London. 17 Jan.–12 Mar. Fiona McMillan employed as 1989 publicity officer for Double Cross . 28 Jan. Reading by Seamus Heaney at Guildhall, 11 Feb.–1 Mar. Field Day production of Double Cross Derry, Yeats: A Fifty Year Salute . by Thomas Kilroy, dir. Jim Sheridan, lead role by Stephen Rea. 25 Feb. Narratives: An Evening of Poetry, Prose and Music , Guildhall, Derry. Spring/Summer Colette Nelis starts as secretary/ administrator at Field Day office. 22 Sept.–25 Nov. Field Day production of Saint Oscar by Terry Eagleton, dir. Trevor Griffiths, lead 8–31 May Double Cross in Royal Court, London. role by Stephen Rea.

22 Sept. Publication of Emergency Legislation , Set 4 27 Sept. Maureen Loughran gives notice of of Field Day Pamphlets: Law and the Constitution: resignation as administrator. Present Discontents , by Patrick McGrory, Dynasties of Coercion by Eanna Mulloy and The Apparatus of unspecified date: Script of Saint Oscar by Terry Repression by Michael Farrell. Eagleton published. 1987 unspecified date: Repeat of Narratives performance of 10 Dec. 1988. 15–23 Mar. Field Day fundraising trip in United States (Boston, New York, Washington, DC). 1990 23 Sept. Premiere of Pentecost by Stewart Parker, dir. 18 June Gary McKeone takes over from Maureen Patrick Mason, lead role by Stephen Rea. Loughran.

Sept.–Dec. Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness 22 Sept. Speaking of Translations (10th anniversary scheduled for this period but cancelled. reading), with Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Carol Ann Duffy at Royal Festival Hall, London. 1988 1 Oct.–8 Dec. Field Day production of The Cure at Troy 29 Feb. Administrator Julie Barber leaves Field Day. by Seamus Heaney, dir. Stephen Rea and Bob Crowley.

1 Mar. Maureen Loughran becomes company unspecified date: Publication of limited edition of secretary. The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney. 9 May Tom Kilroy becomes Field Day board 1991 member. 12 Mar. The Laurence Olivier Award/The Aug. Filming of BBC Arena documentary on Field Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement Day, prod. Andrew Eaton. presented to Field Day. The Field Day Archive

11 Apr. Field Day Literature Series No. 4: Liz Lochhead (part of series of readings in Derry as part of Impact 92 Festival).

7 May Field Day Literature Series No. 5: Michael Longley (part of series of readings in Derry as part of Impact 92 Festival).

8 June Gary McKeone resigns as Field Day administrator.

10 June Soundings No. 1: Local Writers, featuring Frank Galligan and Anita Robinson (part of series of readings in Derry as part of Impact 92 Festival).

2–27 Apr. The Cure at Troy in Tricycle Theatre, 22–25 June Field Day readings at Expo 92, Seville. London. 1 July Prudential Award for Theatre presented to 30 Apr. Certificate of Incorporation issued for Field Field Day. Day Publications. 9 July Soundings No. 2: Local Writers (part of series of readings in Derry as part of Impact 92 9 Sept.–16 Nov. Field Day production of The Festival). Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre by Tom Kilroy, dir. Jim Nolan. 10 Sept. Soundings No. 3: Local Writers (part of series of readings in Derry as part of Impact 92 31 Oct. Launch at Newman House, Dublin of The Festival). Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volumes I–III , general editor Seamus Deane. 24 Sept. Soundings No. 4: Local Writers (part of series of readings in Derry as part of Impact 92 11–27 Nov. Several launches of Field Day Anthology Festival). in US and UK. 13 Oct. Field Day Literature Series No. 6: Ted 2 Dec. Launch in Dublin of Revising the Rising Hughes (part of series of readings in Derry as part edited by Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha and Theo of Impact 92 Festival); Tom Kilroy’s resignation is Dorgan. announced.

1992 13–15 Nov. Field Day rehearsed reading of Cries from Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin by 11 Jan. Field Day Literature Series No. 1: Field Day David Rudkin, dir. Judy Friel. Anthology , readings by Seamus Deane, Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin (part of series of readings 27 Nov. Field Day Literature Series No. 7: Robert in Derry as part of Impact 92 Festival). Creeley (part of series of readings in Derry as part of Impact 92 Festival). 15 Feb. Field Day Literature Series No. 2: C. K. Williams (part of series of readings in Derry as part 1994 of Impact 92 Festival). 31 Jan. Brian Friel resigns as Field Day director.

31 Mar. Field Day Literature Series No. 3: Jayanta 9–10 Dec. Rehearsed reading of Goya’s Last Portrait Mahapatra (part of series of readings in Derry as by John Berger and Nella Bielski. part of Impact 92 Festival).

9 Apr. Tom Kilroy resigns as Field Day director. ANN HASSON AND MICK LALLY IN TRANSLATIONS BY BRIAN FRIEL (1980). Chronology 11

1995 2002 20 Feb. Premiere of Frank McGuinness’s adapta- 1 Mar. Publication of Critical Conditions No. 11 tion of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, dir. Peter Circe’s Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Gill, lead role by Stephen Rea. Ireland by Clare Carroll.

9 Oct. Tom Paulin resigns as Field Day director 11 Mar. Derry launch of volumes IV–V of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in association 1996 with Cork University Press, in Magee College. 1 Apr. Publication of first four volumes in Critical Editors: Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, Maria Luddy, Margaret MacCurtain, Gerardine Meaney, Conditions series: No. 1 The Tree of Liberty: Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Mary O’Dowd and Clair Radicalism, Catholicism and the Construction of Irish Wills. Identity, 1760–1830 by Kevin Whelan; No. 2 Transformations in Irish Culture by Luke Gibbons; 23 Sept. Launch of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Nos. 3 and 4 Mere Irish and Fíor-Ghael: Studies in the Writing, Volumes IV–V, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Idea of Irish Nationality, Its Development and Literary Dublin. Expression prior to the Nineteenth Century and Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the 2004 Nineteenth Century , both by Joep Leerssen. 1 Oct. Publication of Critical Conditions No. 12 Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League late 1996: Derry office closes. and the Co-operative Movement by P. J. Mathews.

1998 1 June Publication of two volumes in Critical 1 May Publication of four volumes in Critical Conditions series: No. 13 Native and Natural: Aspects by Peter Conditions series: No. 5: Crazy John and the Bishop of the Concepts of ‘Right’ and ‘Freedom’ in Irish McQuillan; No. 14 and Other Essays on Irish Culture by Terry Eagleton; Golden Ages and Barbarous No. 6 The Keeper’s Recital: Music and Cultural History Nations: Antiquarian Debate and Cultural Politics in by Clare O’Halloran. in Ireland, 1770–1970 by Harry White; No. 7 The Ireland, c.1750–1800 by Present Lasts a Long Time: Essays in Cultural Politics Autumn: Field Day opens Dublin office at Keough Francis Mulhern; No. 8 Poets and Politics: Reaction Institute for Irish Studies, Newman House. and Continuity in Irish Poetry, 1558–1625 by Marc Caball. 2005 14 Nov. Field Day premiere of Northern Star by 13 May Launch of Field Day Review , 1, Verbal Arts Stewart Parker, dir. Stephen Rea. Centre, Derry.

1999 20 May Launch of Field Day Review, 1, O’Connell House, Merrion Square, Dublin. 18 Mar. David Hammond resigns as Field Day director. Sept. Publication of Critical Conditions No. 15 Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke by Seamus Deane. 20 Nov. Colette Nelis resigns. Oct.–Dec. Field Day column in The Village magazine. 2000 31 Jan. Publication of Critical Conditions No. 9 2006 Ireland after History by David Lloyd. Apr. Publication of Field Day Review , 2. 2001 20 Sept. Publication of final title in Critical 1 Sept. Publication of Critical Conditions No. 10 Conditions series (no. 16) Map-making, Landscapes Ireland’s Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early and Popular Culture by Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. Modern Ireland c. 1530–1750 by William J. Smyth. 12 The Field Day Archive

Oct. Publication of first two volumes in Field Day Files series: Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland by Joe Cleary and Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History by Marjorie Howes; Publication of first two volumes in Field Day Music series: Aloys Fleischmann by Séamas de Barra and Raymond Deane by Patrick Zuk.

2007 May Publication of Field Day Review, 3.

July Publication of The Field Day Archive by Cormac Ó Duibhne.

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GENERAL CONTENTS 14 The Field Day Archive

I.v The Riot Act by Tom Paulin and 28 GENERAL CONTENTS High Time by Derek Mahon I Theatre I.v.1 Scripts I.v.1.a Script of The Riot Act II Publications I.v.1.b Script of The School for Husbands III General I.v.1.c Script of High Time and Related Correspondence IV Photographs I.v.1.d Script of High Time V Press Cuttings I.v.1.e Prompt Copy of The Riot Act and High Time VI Audio Material I.v.2 Irish Tour VII Film I.v.3 Programme, Handbill, Invitation, Posters VIII Poster, Placards, Handbills, Flyers I.v.4 Correspondence, Administration IX Deane Letters I.v.5 Advertising I.vi Double Cross by Thomas Kilroy 31 I.vi.1 Scripts of Double Cross I THEATRE I.vi.2 Irish Tour I.i Translations by Brian Friel 22 I.vi.3 English Tour I.vi.4 Programme, Handbills, Invitation, I.i.1 Script of Translations Posters, Promotional Material I.i.2 Irish Tour I.vi.5 Correspondence I.i.3 English Tour I.vi.6 Administrative Material I.i.4 Programme, Poster I.i.5 Box Office Returns and General Items I.vii Pentecost by Stewart Parker 33 I.i.6 Screenplay I.i.7 Correspondence re screenplay I.vii.1 Scripts of Pentecost I.vii.2 Irish Tour I.ii Three Sisters by Brian Friel 23 I.vii.3 Programme, Source Material, I.ii.1 Script of Three Sisters Invitation, Handbill I.ii.2 Irish Tour I.vii.4 General I.ii.3 English Tour I.ii.4 Programme, Handbill I.viii Making History by Brian Friel 37 I.ii.5 Correspondence re Programmes I.viii.1 Script of Making History and Posters I.viii.2 Irish Tour I.ii.6 Publicity I.viii.3 English Tour I.viii.4 Programme, Design, I.iii The Communication Cord 24 Source Material by Brian Friel I.viii.5 Publicity Material I.iii.1 Script of The Communication Cord I.viii.6 Administration and I.iii.2 Irish Tour Correspondence I.iii.3 English Tour I.iii.4 Programme, Invitation, Posters I.ix Saint Oscar by Terry Eagleton 40 I.iii.5 Publicity Material and miscellaneous I.ix.1 Script of Saint Oscar I.ix.2 Irish Tour I.iv Boesman and Lena by Athol Fugard 26 I.ix.3 English Tour I.iv.1 Script of Boesman and Lena I.ix.4 Programme I.iv.2 Irish Tour I.ix.5 Publicity Material I.iv.3 Programme, Handbill, Invitation, I.ix.6 Personnel Correspondence Poster, Advertising I.ix.7 General Correspondence I.iv.4 Miscellaneous I.ix.8 Fundraising General Contents 15

I.x The Cure at Troy 42 I.xv.4.b Venues, Festivals, Theatres, by Seamus Heaney Touring in Rest of World I.x.1 Scripts I.xv.5 Job Applications I.x.1.a Script of The Cure at Troy I.x.1.b Translation of Philoctetes I.x.2 Irish Tour II PUBLICATIONS I.x.3 Non-Irish Tours I.x.4 Programme, etc. II.i Pamphlets nos. 1, 2 and 3 55 I.x.4.a Programme, Posters, Invitation (First Set, 1983) I.x.4.b Material for Programme and II.i.1 Pamphlets Related Correspondence II.i.2 Proofs, Typescripts I.x.5 Publicity II.i.3 Publicity Material I.x.6 General Correspondence and Press II.i.4 Correspondence among Authors, Cuttings Designers, Printers, etc. II.i.5 Other Correspondence I.xi The Madame MacAdam Travelling 45 II.i.6 Administrative Theatre by Thomas Kilroy II.i.7 Technical I.xi.1 Script of Madame MacAdam II.i.8 Book Orders I.xi.2 Irish Tour I.xi.3 Programme, etc. II.ii Sweeney Astray (1983) 57 I.xi.3.a Programme II.ii.1 Books I.xi.3.b Material for Programme II.ii.2 Proofs, Typescripts I.xi.4 Correspondence II.ii.3 Correspondence I.xi.5 Publicity II.ii.3.a Correspondence among Author, I.xi.6 Miscellaneous Publisher and Others II.ii.3.b General Correspondence I.xii Cries from Casement as his Bones are 47 II.ii.4 Publicity Material Brought to Dublin by David Rudkin II.ii.4.a General Publicity Material I.xii.1 Irish Tour II.ii.4.b Material re Launch I.xii.2 Programme II.ii.5 Administrative I.xii.3 Publicity II.ii.6 Design and Print I.xii.4 Correspondence with Cast and Crew II.ii.7 Book Orders I.xii.5 Other Correspondence, etc. II.iii Pamphlets nos. 4, 5 and 6 59 I.xiii Uncle Vanya by Frank McGuinness 48 (Second Set, 1984) I.xiii.1 Script of Uncle Vanya II.iii.1 Pamphlets I.xiii.2 Irish and English Tours II.iii.2 Proofs, Typescripts I.xiii.3 Programme, Posters, Flyers II.iii.3 Correspondence among Authors, I.xiii.4 Correspondence and Publicity Editor, etc. Material II.iii.4 Publicity Material I.xiv Northern Star by Stewart Parker 51 II.iii.5 Design and Print I.xiv.1 Programme II.iii.6 Book Orders I.xv Theatrical Venues, Festivals, II.iv Pamphlets nos. 7, 8 and 9 61 Miscellaneous Theatre 51 The Protestant Idea of Liberty I.xv.1 Venues in Northern Ireland (Third Set, 1985) I.xv.2 Venues in Republic of Ireland II.iv.1 Pamphlets I.xv.3 Miscellaneous Irish Theatre II.iv.2 Proofs, Typescripts I.xv.4 Venues, Festivals, Theatres, II.iv.3 Correspondence Touring outside Ireland II.iv.3.a Correspondence among Author, I.xv.4.a Venues, Festivals, Theatres, Publisher and Others Touring in Britain II.iv.3.b General Correspondence 16 The Field Day Archive

II.iv.4 Publicity Material II.xii Nationalism, Colonialism and 67 II.iv.5 Publicity Material re Launch Literature , Book by Terry Eagleton, II.iv.6 Administrative Fredric Jameson and II.iv.7 Book Orders Edward W. Said (1990) II.xii.1 Correspondence II.v Ireland’s Field Day (1985) 63 II.xii.2 Correspondence contd. and Contracts II.v.1 Proofs, etc. II.xii.3 Financial, Tax, Related Matters II.v.2 Correspondence II.v.3 Publicity II.xiii Introduction to The Field Day 68 II.v.4 Sales, etc. Anthology of Irish Writing, Volumes I–III by II.vi Pamphlets nos. 10, 11 and 12 63 Seamus Deane (1990/1) Emergency Legislation II.xiii.1 Pamphlet (Fourth Set, 1986) II.xiii.2 Correspondence II.vi.1 Pamphlets II.xiii.3 Correspondence contd., Proof Copy, II.vi.2 Correspondence among Authors, Design Editor and Others, and Proofs II.vi.3 Publicity Material II.xiv The Field Day Anthology of Irish 69 II.vi.4 Publicity Material re Launch Writing, Volumes I–III , general editor II.vi.5 Design and Print Seamus Deane (1991) II.vi.6 Sales and Costs II.xiv.1 Books II.xiv.2 Early Plans II.vii Field Day Promotional Booklet 64 II.xiv.3 Early Costings and Negotiations with (1987, maybe 1988) Publishers II.vii.1 Booklet II.xiv.4 Drafts and Galleys II.xiv.5 Fundraising Correspondence II.viii Pamphlets nos. 13, 14 and 15 65 II.xiv.6 Correspondence with Faber & Faber Nationalism, Colonialism and II.xiv.7 Correspondence with W. W. Norton Literature (Fifth Set, 1988) II.xiv.8 Correspondence with Sheil Land II.viii.1 Pamphlets II.xiv.9 General Office Correspondence re II.viii.2 Proofs Field Day Anthology II.viii.3 Correspondence among Authors, II.xiv.10 Financial Affairs re Field Day Anthology Editor, etc. II.xiv.11 Seamus Deane, General Editor of Field II.viii.4 Publicity, Dublin Launch, etc. Day Anthology II.viii.5 Printing, Sales, Technical II.xiv.12 Andrew Carpenter, Associate Editor of II.viii.6 Correspondence re Publication of Field Day Anthology Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature in II.xiv.13 Contributing Editors of Field Day Book Form Anthology II.xiv.14 Permissions II.ix Yeats: A Fifty Year Salute. 67 II.xiv.15 Publicity and Launches A Lecture on W. B. Yeats II.xiv.16 Feminist Reception by Seamus Heaney (1989) II.xiv.17 Field Day Directors on Field Day II.ix.1 Card Booklet Anthology II.xiv.18 Limited Edition of Field Day Anthology II.x Saint Oscar by Terry Eagleton 67 II.xiv.19 Miscellaneous Field Day Anthology (1989) II.x.1 Book II.xv Revising the Rising , edited by 77 Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha and II.xi The Cure at Troy: A Version of 67 Theo Dorgan (1991) Sophocles’ Philoctetes II.xv.1 Book by Seamus Heaney (1990) II.xv.2 Correspondence, Invitation to Launch, II.xi.1 Books Financial General Contents 17

II.xvi Critical Conditions: Field Day 77 Essays/Monographs (1996–2006) II.xvi.1 Critical Conditions Books II.xvi.2 Documents re Books Published as Part of the Critical Conditions Series II.xvi. 2.a Documents on Critical Conditions Publications II.xvi. 2.b Documents re W. J. Smyth II.xvi. 2.c Documents re Peter McQuillan II.xvi. 3 General Administrative Material and Correspondence II.xvi. 4 Material re Other Books Considered for Publication in the Critical Condition Series II.xvi. 4.a Tom Bartlett, Mary Burgess II.xvi. 4.b Ronan Bennett II.xvi. 4.c Richard Bourke II.xvi. 4.d Joe Cleary II.xvi. 4.e Maud Ellmann, etc. II.xvi. 4.f Glenn Hooper II.xvi. 4.g Breandán Mac Suibhne II.xvi. 4.h Catherine Nash II.xvi. 4.i Ann Rigney II.xvi. 4.j Stan Smith

II.xvii Field Day Anthology of Irish 80 Writing, Volumes IV–V: Irish Women’s Writing II.xviii.2 Proofs and Traditions (2002) II.xviii.3 Design II.xvii. 1 Correspondence involving Panel II.xviii.4 Correspondence, Notes, Early Ideas Editors, Sara Wilbourne and Seamus for Field Day Review Deane II.xviii.5 Scripts and Other Material re II.xvii. 1.a Angela Bourke Individual Contributions to Field Day II.xvii. 1.b Seamus Deane Review . II.xvii. 1.c Siobhán Kilfeather II.xviii.5.a ‘The Thin Man: An Interview with II.xvii. 1.d Maria Luddy Brendan Behan’ by Slyvère Lotringer II.xvii. 1.e Margaret Mac Curtain II.xviii.5.b ‘The Tree of Liberty’ by Philip Pettit II.xvii. 1.f Gerardine Meaney II.xviii.5.c ‘Republics of Difference’ by David II.xvii. 1.g Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha Lloyd II.xvii. 1.h Mary O’Dowd II.xviii.5.d ‘Spaces of Time through Times of II.xvii. 1.i Sara Wilbourne Space’ by Luke Gibbons II.xvii. 1.j Clair Wills II.xviii.5.e ‘Settling In: Dublin’s Jewish II.xvii. 1.k General Immigrants of a Century Ago’ by II.xvii. 2 Documents re Contributing Editors Cormac Ó Gráda II.xvii. 3 Contracts, Fees, Payments, Lists of II.xviii.5.f ‘Fenians in the Frame’ by Breandán Contributors Mac Suibhne and Amy Martin II.xvii.4 Field Day Office Correspondence II.xviii.5.g ‘Mapping the Narrow Ground’ by II.xvii.5 Permissions Mary Burgess II.xvii.6 Miscellaneous

II.xviii Field Day Review , 1 (2005) 85 FRONT COVER OF PROGRAMME OF THE FIELD DAY PRODUCTION OF BOESMAN AND LENA BY II.xviii.1 Journal ATHOL FUGARD (1983). The Field Day Archive

II.xxi.2 Documents re Outrageous Fortune by Joe Cleary II.xxi.3 Documents re Colonial Crossings by Marjorie Howes II.xxi.4 Design Material II.xxii Field Day Music 92 II.xxii.1 Field Day Music Books II.xxii.2 Documents re Aloys Fleischmann by Séamas de Barra II.xxii.3 Documents re Raymond Deane by Patrick Zuk II.xxiii Field Day Review , 3 (2007), 93 II.xviii.5.h ‘Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s’ eds. Seamus Deane and photos by Bert Hardy Breandán Mac Suibhne II.xviii.5.i ‘Letter from Rome’ by Conor Deane II.xxiii.1 Journal II.xviii.5.j ‘Globalization and its Discontents’ by Benedict Anderson II.xxiv Planned Publications 93 II.xviii.5.k ‘Edward Said: A Late Style of (2007 and beyond) Humanism’ by Seamus Deane II.xxiv.1 Field Day Filí Series of Irish- II.xviii.5.l Review Essays Language Poetry, Series Editor II.xviii.5.m ‘Early Modern Ireland’ by Clare Breandán Ó Buachalla Carroll II.xxiv.1.a Aogán Ó Rathaille by II.xviii.5.n ‘Mission Accomplished?’ by Brendan Breandán Ó Buachalla O’Leary II.xxiv.2 Various Planned Publications II.xviii.6 Miscellaneous Field Day Review, 1 III GENERAL II.xix Field Day Column in The Village 89 III.i Material Sent to Field Day 94 Magazine, Oct.–Dec. 2005 Directors III.ii Bulletins Sent from Field Day 94 II.xx Field Day Review, 2 (2006), eds. 90 Office to Directors Seamus Deane and III.iii Memoranda and Other 94 Breandán Mac Suibhne Communications II.xx.1 Journal III.iv Minutes of Directors’ Meetings 95 II.xx.2 Proofs III.v Directors’ Correspondence 98 II.xx.3 Design III.v.1 Directors’ Correspondence: II.xx.4 Correspondence Seamus Deane II.xx.5 Scripts and Other Material Relating (see also Section IX) to Individual Contributions to Field III.v.2 Directors’ Correspondence: Day Review , 2 Brian Friel II.xx.5.a ‘Antigone and After: “Ethnic” Conflict III.v.2.a Directors’ Correspondence: in Historical Perspective’ by Richard Brian Friel to Seamus Deane Bourke III.v.2.b Directors’ Correspondence: II.xx.5.b ‘Fascists’ by Terry Eagleton Brian Friel to Stephen Rea II.xx.5.c ‘Ulysses ’ by Maud Ellmann III.v.3 Directors’ Correspondence: II.xx.6 Miscellaneous Seamus Heaney III.v.4 Directors’ Correspondence: II.xxi Field Day Files 91 David Hammond II.xxi.1 Field Day Files Books III.v.5 Directors’ Correspondence: Thomas Kilroy III.v.6 Directors’ Correspondence: STEPHEN REA AS OSCAR WILDE IN TERRY EAGLETON’S SAINT OSCAR (1987). Tom Paulin General Contents 19

III.v.7 Directors’ Correspondence: IV PHOTOGRAPHS 115 Stephen Rea III.vi Finance 101 IV.i Translations IV.ii Three Sisters III.vi.1 Accountants, Registry of Companies, IV.iii The Communication Cord Incorporation of Field Day, etc. IV.iv Boesman and Lena III.vi.2 Banks IV.v The Riot Act and High Time III.vi.3 Office Records of Income and IV.vi Double Cross Expenses, Field Day Financial Records IV.vii Pentecost III.vi.4 Tax IV.viii Making History III.vi.5 Miscellaneous Financial Material IV.ix Saint Oscar III.vi.6 Fundraising IV.x The Cure at Troy III.vi.6.a General Fundraising IV.xi The Madame MacAdam III.vi.6.b Fundraising Tour to USA, 1987 Travelling Theatre III.vi.7 Arts Councils, Derry City Council, etc. IV.xii Cries from Casement as his Bones are III.vi.7.a Arts Council of Northern Ireland Brought to Dublin III.vi.7.b The Arts Council/An Chomhairle IV.xiii Uncle Vanya Ealaíon IV.xiv Non-Theatre Photographs III.vi.7.c Derry City Council IV.xiv.1 Miscellaneous III.vi.7.d Impact 92 Festival of Culture, Derry, 1992 IV.xiv.2 Portraits of Directors of Field Day III.vii Proposals for Projects 108 IV.xv Scanned Images III.vii.1 Theatre Proposals III.vii.2 Film Proposals III.vii.3 Other Proposals V PRESS CUTTINGS 117 III.viii General Administration 110 V.i Correspondence re Press Cuttings III.ix Non-Theatre Events 112 III.ix.1 Events in 1985 and 1986 V.ii Selections of Press Cuttings III.ix.2 Yeats: A Fifty Year Salute, Lecture by Seamus Heaney, 28 Jan. 1989 V.iii Press Cuttings 1980–2007 III.ix.3 Narratives: An Evening of Poetry, V.iii.1 General Cuttings Prose and Music, 25 Feb. 1989 V.iii.2 Press Cuttings 1980 III.ix.4 Expo 1992 in Seville, Spain V.iii.3 Press Cuttings 1981 III.ix.5 Miscellaneous Non-Theatre Events V.iii.4 Press Cuttings 1982 III.x Essays, Articles, Theses on 112 V.iii.5 Press Cuttings 1983 Field Day V.iii.6 Press Cuttings 1984 V.iii.7 Press Cuttings 1985 III.x.1 Short Essays by Seamus Deane on V.iii.8 Press Cuttings 1986 Field Day, circa 1985. V.iii.9 Press Cuttings 1987 III.x.2 Essay on Field Day by Michael Toolan V.iii.10 Press Cuttings 1988 and MA Thesis by Jonathan Curley V.iii.11 Press Cuttings 1989 III.x.3 PhD Thesis by Aidan O’Malley V.iii.12 Press Cuttings 1990 III.x.4 PhD Thesis by Cassandra Fusco and V.iii.13 Press Cuttings 1991 MA Thesis by Hannah Eastwood III.x.5 Thesis by Paulo Eduardo de Almeida V.iii.14 Press Cuttings 1992 Carvalho V.iii.15 Press Cuttings 1993 III.x.6 MA Thesis by Ciarán Deane V.iii.16 Press Cuttings 1994 V.iii.17 Press Cuttings 1995 III.xi Miscellaneous 114 V.iii.18 Press Cuttings 1996–97 III.xi.1 Field Day Archive V.iii.19 Press Cuttings 1998–2001 III.xi.2 Miscellaneous: Various Awards, Misc. V.iii.20 Press Cuttings 2002 Corr., fielddaybooks.com, etc. V.iii.21 Press Cuttings 2003–04 20 The Field Day Archive

V.iii.22 Press Cuttings 2005 VIII.i.7 Large Posters for Making History V.iii.23 Press Cuttings 2006 by Brian Friel (1988) V.iii.24 Press Cuttings 2007 VIII.i.8.a Large Posters for Saint Oscar by Terry Eagleton (1989) VIII.i.8.b Small Poster for Saint Oscar VI AUDIO MATERIAL by Terry Eagleton (1989) VIII.i.9 Large Posters for The Cure at Troy VI.i Documents re Audio Tapes 121 by Seamus Heaney (1990) VI.ii Vinyl Discs and Quarter-Inch VIII.i.10 Large Posters for Madame MacAdam Audio Tapes 121 … by Thomas Kilroy (1991) VI.iii Compact Discs 128 VIII.i.11 Small Posters for Cries from Casement VI.iv Audio Cassette Tapes 129 … by David Rudkin (1992) VIII.i. 12 .a Large Posters for Uncle Vanya VI.iv.1 Audio Cassette Tapes in Cases by Frank McGuinness (1995) VI.iv.2 Audio Cassette Tapes without Cases VIII.i.12.b Small Posters for Uncle Vanya by Frank McGuinness (1995) VIII.i.13 Small Posters for Northern Star VII FILM by Stewart Parker (1998)

VII.i BBC Arena Documentary, History 134 VIII.ii Non-Theatre Posters 143 Boys on the Rampage (1988) VIII.iii Placards 143 VII.i.1 Film Reels and Transfers to VIII.iv Leaflets, Flyers and Invitations 144 Digital Format VIII.v Other Items re Posters, 144 VII.i.2 Shot List, Transcripts Flyers, etc.

VII.ii VHS Videotapes 136 VII.iii BBC Documentary The Story of 139 IX DEANE LETTERS Field Day (2006) VII.iv Other Film Projects and 139 IX.i Computer Folder ‘fd vol iv’ 144 Productions IX.i.1 anthol.corrections IX.i.2 fd america IX.i.3 fd flier VIII POSTERS, PLACARDS, IX.i.4 Field Day Publ. Proposal IX.i.5 FD Publishing HANDBILLS AND FLYERS IX.i.6 fdanthol VIII.i Theatre Posters 139 IX.i.7 fday.refs IX.i.8 field day VIII.i.1 Posters for Translations by Brian Friel IX.i.9 field day letters (1980) IX.i.10 Field Day02 VIII.i.2 Posters for The Communication Cord IX.i.11 M.Cunnane by Brian Friel (1982) IX.i.12 FD Publ. Proposal VIII.i.3.a Small Posters for Boesman and Lena IX.i.13 fdcupfigs by Athol Fugard (1983) IX.i.14 FDIV.Corr. VIII.i.3.b Large Posters for Boesman and Lena IX.i.15 fees by Athol Fugard (1983) IX.i.16 mk VIII.i.4 Large Posters for The Riot Act/ High Time by Tom Paulin/ IX.ii Computer Folder ‘CC files’ 156 Derek Mahon (1984) IX.iii Other Computer Files 157 VIII.i.5 Large Posters for Double Cross IX.iv Compact Disc Containing by Thomas Kilroy (1986) Data in IX 157 VIII.i.6 Large Posters for Pentecost by Stewart Parker (1987)