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Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 83 Austin Clarke Papers (MSS 38,651-38,708) (Accession no. 5615) Correspondence, drafts of poetry, plays and prose, broadcast scripts, notebooks, press cuttings and miscellanea related to Austin Clarke and Joseph Campbell Compiled by Dr Mary Shine Thompson 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 7 Abbreviations 7 The Papers 7 Austin Clarke 8 I Correspendence 11 I.i Letters to Clarke 12 I.i.1 Names beginning with “A” 12 I.i.1.A General 12 I.i.1.B Abbey Theatre 13 I.i.1.C AE (George Russell) 13 I.i.1.D Andrew Melrose, Publishers 13 I.i.1.E American Irish Foundation 13 I.i.1.F Arena (Periodical) 13 I.i.1.G Ariel (Periodical) 13 I.i.1.H Arts Council of Ireland 14 I.i.2 Names beginning with “B” 14 I.i.2.A General 14 I.i.2.B John Betjeman 15 I.i.2.C Gordon Bottomley 16 I.i.2.D British Broadcasting Corporation 17 I.i.2.E British Council 17 I.i.2.F Hubert and Peggy Butler 17 I.i.3 Names beginning with “C” 17 I.i.3.A General 17 I.i.3.B Cahill and Company 20 I.i.3.C Joseph Campbell 20 I.i.3.D David H. Charles, solicitor 20 I.i.3.E Richard Church 20 I.i.3.F Padraic Colum 21 I.i.3.G Maurice Craig 21 I.i.3.H Curtis Brown, publisher 21 I.i.4 Names beginning with “D” 21 I.i.4.A General 21 I.i.4.B Leslie Daiken 23 I.i.4.C Aodh De Blacam 24 I.i.4.D Decca Record Company 24 I.i.4.E Alan Denson 24 I.i.4.F Dolmen Press 24 I.i.5 Names beginning with “E” 25 I.i.6 Names beginning with “F” 26 I.i.6.A General 26 I.i.6.B Padraic Fallon 28 2 I.i.6.C Robert Farren 28 I.i.6.D Frank Hollings Rare Books 29 I.i.7 Names beginning with “G” 29 I.i.7.A General 29 I.i.7.B George Allen and Unwin 31 I.i.7.C Monk Gibbon 32 I.i.8 Names beginning with “H” 32 I.i.8.A General 32 I.i.8.B Seamus Heaney 35 I.i.8.C John Hewitt 35 I.i.8.D F.R. Higgins 35 I.i.9 Names beginning with “I” 36 I.i.9.A General 36 I.i.9.B The Irish Press 37 I.i.9.C The Irish Times 38 I.i.9.D Irish Academy of Letters 38 I.i.10 Names beginning with “J” 39 I.i.11 Names beginning with “K” 40 I.i.12 Names beginning with “L” 42 I.i.12.A General 42 I.i.12.B Lord and Lady Longford 46 I.i.12.C Lyric Theatre, Belfast 47 I.i.13 Names beginning with “M” 47 I.i.13.A General 47 I.i.13.B Derek Mahon 51 I.i.13.C Vivian Mercier 51 I.i.13.D Ewart Milne 52 I.i.13.E John Montague 54 I.i.13.F George Moore 54 I.i.13.G Names beginning with “Mac” or “Mc” 54 I.i.13.H Hugh MacDiarmid 58 I.i.13.I Donagh MacDonagh 58 I.i.13.J Brendan McGann 59 I.i.13.K Macmillan and Company 59 I.i.14 Names beginning with “N” 59 I.i.15 Names beginning with “O” 62 I.i.15.A General 62 I.i.15.B The Observer 65 I.i.15.C Sean O’Casey 65 I.i.15.D Sean O’Faolain 65 I.i.15.E Meta O’Flaherty 65 I.i.15.F Joseph O’Neill 66 I.i.15.G Mary Devenport O’Neill 66 I.i.15.H Oxford Festival of Spoken Verse 67 I.i.15.I Seumas O’Sullivan 67 I.i.15.J Oxford University Press 69 3 I.i.16 Names beginning with “P” 69 I.i.16.A General 69 I.i.16.B Herbert Palmer 73 I.i.16.C PEN (Organization) 74 I.i.17 Names beginning with “Q” 76 I.i.18 Names beginning with “R” 76 I.i.18.A General 76 I.i.18.B Radio Éireann / Radio Telefís Éireann 79 I.i.18.C W.R. Rodgers 95 I.i.18.D Routledge and Kegan Paul 96 I.i.19 Names beginning with “S” 96 I.i.19.A General 96 I.i.19.B Blanaid Salkeld 102 I.i.19.C Philip Sayer 102 I.i.19.D William Kean Seymour 103 I.i.19.E Shiela Steen 104 I.i.20 Names beginning with “T” 105 I.i.20.A General 105 I.i.20.B R.S. Thomas 107 I.i.20.C The Times and The Times Literary Supplement 107 I.i.21 Names beginning with “U” 108 I.i.21.A General 108 I.i.21.B Universities: General 109 I.i.21.C Universities: University College Dublin 110 I.i.21.D Universities: University of Dublin / Trinity College Dublin 111 I.i.21.E Universities: State University of New York at Buffalo 111 I.i.22 Names beginning with “V” 112 I.i.23 Names beginning with “W” 112 I.i.23.A General 112 I.i.23.B Richard Weber 115 I.i.23.C Williams & Norgate, Publishers 115 I.i.24 Names beginning with “Y” 116 I.i.24.A General 116 I.i.24.B Yeats family and relating to W.B. Yeats 116 I.i.25 Names beginning with “Z” 117 I.ii Letters from Clarke 118 I.iii Other correspondence 124 II Poetry 132 II.i ca. 1913-1960 132 II.ii ca. 1963-1967 137 II.iii ca. 1968-1974 141 III Dramatic works 144 4 III.i.1 Pre-1968 144 III.i.2 1973-1974 146 III.i.3 Unpublished plays, programmes etc 147 IV Broadcasts 149 IV.i 1940-1947 149 IV.ii 1948-1955 150 IV.iii 1956-1965 151 IV.iv 1966-1972 and undated 152 IV.v Undated, fragments, etc. 153 IV.vi Poems submitted for Broadcast 153 IV.vii Poems submitted for broadcast (typescripts) 156 IV.viii Poems submitted for broadcast (various) 156 IV.ix Works arranged for Lyric Theatre Company and the Dublin Verse-Speaking Society 157 IV.x Plays for broadcast 158 V Notebooks 161 V.i In Nora Clarke’s hand 161 V.ii ca. 1915-1972 162 V.iii Ca. 1924-late 1950s 163 V.iv Ca. 1956-66 164 V.v Ca. 1965-73 165 VI Prose works 167 VI.i Critical writings and short narrative prose, c 1912-mid-1930s 167 VI.i.1 College assignments, probably 1912-1916 167 VI.i.2 Theses (M.A.): drafts 168 VI.i.3 Thesis (M.A.) 168 VI.i.4 Short narratives, feature articles, 1913-1920 168 VI.ii Articles, reviews and other critical works, 1920-1935 169 VI.iii Critical writing 170 VI.iv Autobiographical 171 VI.v Fiction 171 VII Miscellaneous 173 VIII Joseph Campbell 176 5 IX Folders and envelopes 177 INDEX 178 6 Introduction Abbreviations A autograph DVSS Dublin Verse-Speaking Society L letter Ms/MSS manuscript(s) nd nd T typed Ts/TSS typescript(s) ? illegible word The Papers This archive is the largest and the most varied holding of Austin Clarke manuscripts, more extensive than the Clarke archive at the University of Texas at Austin, the other main repository of Clarke Mss. It was acquired from the poet’s son, R Dardis Clarke. It contains manuscripts relating to Clarke’s poetry, critical and creative prose, verse plays and theatre, his broadcasting career, notebooks, and correspondence written by and addressed to Austin Clarke throughout his adult life. Clarke worked as a broadcaster at Radio Éireann (later Radio Telefís Éireann) for over thirty years, and this collection contains carbons of poems, plays and prose extracts which the members of the Dublin Verse-Speaking Society, of which he was co-founder, performed on air and on stage. The archive also contains a considerable holding of poems which listeners to his radio programmes submitted to him and which he adjudicated. It also contains thousands of items of correspondence, the largest section of which relates to Radio Éireann. Clarke used notebooks as aide memoires, and to record jottings for poems. Some contain drafts of correspondence from Clarke. When the National Library of Ireland acquired the collection, the Mss were loosely organized, and in some cases no organizing principle was discernible. Some hundreds of sheet copies of poems intended for broadcast were, however, already in alphabetical order. One envelope of Mss, for example, contained drafts, fair copies and Tss relating to poems from the collections The Horse-Eaters, Old-Fashioned Pilgrimage, Ancient Lights, Night and Morning, Mnemosyne Lay in Dust, The Echo at Coole and Other Poems, Flight to Africa, Collected Poems (1974) (‘The Sword of the West’), end-notes for Collected Poems (1974), notes towards unpublished memoirs, fragments from Penny in the Clouds and Twice Round the Black Church, 7 Tss of reviews, and stray sheets from drafts of verse drama and miscellaneous other notes and fragments. The pages were in no particular sequence. The manuscripts are classified under the following headings: correspondence, poetry, prose, verse plays and theatre, notebooks, broadcast scripts, a small collection of Joseph Campbell Mss, and a group of miscellaneous items.