1 Notebooks and early career
	Date:(undated)- 1934	Extent:3 items

	1.1 School and College work
	Date:(undated) - 1934	Extent:3 items

A35/1	Scope and Content:Handwritten [school] essay [by G.A.Hayes-McCoy] entitled "Irish Nationality".
	Date:undated	Extent:11 pp

A35/2	Scope and Content:Handwritten draft narrative by G.A.Hayes-McCoy entitled "Men of the world- a five-minute story". Protagonist Reverend Mr.Warr finds himself involved in an auction.
	Date:May 1934	Extent:12 pp

A35/3	Scope and Content:Handwritten and -drawn draft by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] for first page of Daily News Sheet, Timbuktoo, featuring headline "Defeat of General Knuts" and corresponding article. Also including map of fighting; of satirical nature.
	Date:undated	Extent:1 p

	1.2 Notebooks
	Date:1927-[1960]	Extent:6 items

A35/4	Scope and Content:Notebook of G.A.Hayes-McCoy, Eyre Square, Galway, with descriptive notes and sketches based on a journey to Inishmore, and visits to sites of historical interest in County Galway, including Cloonboo Castle, Annaghdown monastery, Derrydonnell Castle. Also including a rubbing [from tomb inscription, Abbeyknockmoy].
	Date:July-August 1927	Extent:c.50 pp

A35/5	Scope and Content:Three hardbound notebooks compiled by "G.A.Aoidheach mac Aodha" [Hayes-McCoy], Galway, entitled "Archaeology I-III". Handwritten notes and elaborate sketches from works by R.A.S. Macalister, Peake & Fleure, M.E. Boyle, and others, on the archaeology of European and Irish prehistory, and the Irish early middle ages.
	Date:October - November 1937	Extent:3 items

A35/6	Scope and Content:Notebook with handwritten entries by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy]. Mostly drafts for outgoing letters to Galway authorities, and banks, concerning property held near Ballyglunin Station, in Middle Street [Galway city]; also concerning livestock and race horses. Some regard to shortage of kerosene while Emergency Powers in operation.
	Date:January 1941- December 1945	Extent:c.160 pp

A35/7	Scope and Content:Hardbound notebooks (155, 149, 40 pp) in style of commonplace books kept by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], with quotations from a variety of historical or literary works to specific themes, phenomena. Also listing books for proposed reading, an idea for a book to write on "Irish associations of British public figures - Stevenson, Gordon, Buller, Shelley...". With indices. [one item in Scots Gaelic.]
	Date:1960-1963 and undated	Extent:3 items

A35/8 See Also A35/ 9	Scope and Content:Hardbound notebooks entitled "Miscellaneous notes,books 1-3", containing notes and sketches gathered by G.A. Hayes-McCoy,mainly relating to Irish military affairs, with specific reference to flags, weapons, ships, military strategy. Including press-cuttings (pasted) and correspondence, with a letter from the Keeper at Belfast Museum & Art Gallery, about a battle-axe known as the "Galway Cracker"; also a note from Mary Purcell with a poem by Hugo Doak, "Tolka River", and a humorous rhyming poem by [G.A. Hayes-McCoy] entitled "An argument for education". With an index for books one and two. Enclosing some loose notes on artillery, the Scots hired by Hugh O'Neill, and other matters.
	Date:[1960s]	Extent:3 items and enclosures

A35/9	Scope and Content:File of notes and correspondence compiled by [G.A. Hayes-McCoy] on the subject of pikes. Citations of sources such as K.B.Nowlan Repeal [1965], C.Ó Lochlainn Irish street ballads (1962). Also including correspondence from officials at The Armouries, London, and [1794]-press cutting listing divisions of the Irish army. [This was originally placed in A35/8, second volume.]
	Date:[1960s]	Extent:16 items

	1.3 Early career
	Date:1931-1953

A35/10 See Also A35/110	Scope and Content:Scrapbook of press and magazine cuttings, postcards, membership cards, programmes for events, collected by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy]; most with handwritten captions. Containing press material from The Irish Press, The Irish Independent, The Irish Times, The Evening Herald, The Sunday Independent, The Connaught Tribune, The Galway Observer, and others. Mostly documenting events in Hayes-McCoy's career and private life - from time as a student in Galway and Edinburgh, at the Institute of Historical Research (London), the National Museum of Ireland (Dublin), marriage to May O'Connor; some of his own poetry, press writings (not academic). Also cuttings of generally historical interest. Including much press material about new acquisitions at the National Museum during his tenure; May 1934 - menu card of a dinner, Clifden, with signature by Éamon de Valera; some of Hayes-McCoy's designs for family cards and a heraldic badge (Connaught Trout Anglers' Association); series from the Irish Press column "Seen, heard and noted" by "Roddy the Rover" (Aodh de Blácam) 1937-1944; photograph depicting Hayes-McCoy and [his parents]; programme for 1947 historical pageant "The common people" which he wrote the English script for; material relating to Bureau of Military History. Enclosing loose press cutting from [ ] with a letter to the Editor by T.J.Keane entitled "Owen Roe O'Neill". [partly in Irish].
	Date:1931-1950	Extent:c.130 pp and enclosure

A35/11 See Also A35/ 179	Scope and Content:Scrapbook with press cuttings and programmes compiled by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy]. Material from The Galway Observer, The Connacht Sentinel, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, Indiu (Inniu), The Evening Herald, The Derry Journal, The People's Press, other local papers. Mostly articles quoting Hayes-McCoy on historical points, reporting on his public lectures, illustrating his work at the National Museum of Ireland, fewer press letters and articles written by Hayes-McCoy. Including programmes for exhibitions of paintings by him, held by Galway Art Club in 1950 and 1951.
	Date:1950-1951	Extent:20 pp

A35/12 See Also A35/ 106	Scope and Content:Scrapbook with press cuttings and programmes compiled by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy]. Material from The Irish Independent, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Press, The Irish Times, The Irish Press, The Evening Herald, The Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society, local papers. Mostly articles concerning Hayes-McCoy's career, events organised by the Military History Society of Ireland, Hayes-McCoy's public lectures. Also including reviews of the first numbers of The Irish Sword; articles in The Portsmouth Evening News on Irish delegation to "The Irish Week" in Portsmouth, March 1952.
	Date:1950-1953	Extent:20 pp

	2 General correspondence
	Date:1948-1973	Extent:14 items

A35/13 See Also A35/43	Scope and Content:Typescript correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy and James Mann, Keeper, The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London, with opinions on three swords from the collections of the National Museum of Ireland. (This was originally enclosed in a volume of offprints; loosely connected with Hayes-McCoy's "Sixteenth Century Irish swords" (1977) contained therein.)
	Date:18-24 June 1948	Extent:2 items

A35/14	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from Lieutenant N.Jourdain , Oxford, to G.A.Hayes-McCoy. Explaining his slight connection with the "Tyneside Irish" from when he was stationed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1918. Offering enclosed book as a gift to the Military Society of Ireland. Copy of Joseph Keating's Irish heroes in the war. The Tyneside Irish Brigade (London 1917); with pasted dedication by the Tyneside Irish Committee to the 3rd battalion Connacht Rangers, 1918. Also enclosed typescript copy list by [ ] of the battles of the Somme, 1916.
	Date:25 January 1950	Extent:3 items

A35/15	Scope and Content:Typescript letter signed P.E.Abbot, c/o The British Consulate General, Salonika, Greece, to G.A.Hayes-McCoy, regarding a request for information on the Sligo Militia. Specialising in pre-1855 uniforms, and generally British militaria, but possessing a Sligo coatee; asking about a certain "mitre cap" at the Dublin Museum.Promising support of The [Military History Society of Ireland].
	Date:31 July 1950	Extent:1 p

A35/16	Scope and Content:File of correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy and Dr.Enrique de Tapia Ozcariz, Madrid, Spain, and also with Máire C.McEntee, Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin. Regarding work by de Tapia, lawyer and [amateur] historian, on Owen Rua O'Neill, his research, forthcoming publication in Spain, and Hayes-McCoy's cautious recommendation to the Department to assist publication also in English - not for its historical merits but for the fostering of interest in Spain for Ireland. Enclosed by de Tapia: foregoing communications from archivist, Simancas; front matter of his publication. [mostly in Spanish]
	Date:[1949] March 1950-October 1951	Extent:11 items

A35/17	Scope and Content:File of letters from H.Malcolm McKee, Bangor, County Down, to G.A.Hayes-McCoy, regarding development of The Military History Society, editions of The Irish Sword, his own research on the history of The Royal Irish Constabulary. Including press cutting of his letter (14 July 1951) to The Northern Whig on the Battle of the Boyne; also enclosing letters from researchers wishing to join the Society. Enclosed [by Hayes-McCoy] letter from R.H.[G ], Film Censor's Office (4 October 1951) on desirability of having a certain piece on the R.I.C.uniform in The Irish Sword: "in the last analysis you will displease a larger [number] than you will please by its inclusion".
	Date:12 January -5 December 1951	Extent:10 items

A35/18	Scope and Content:Correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy, National Museum of Ireland, John Manning, Dublin, and Mrs.M.A. (Erskine) Childers, Glendalough House, County Wicklow. Regarding some literature in circulation among them, including a Roman map for Manning; a booklet on the art of Ife, and enclosed Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston October 1954), both from Childers for Hayes-McCoy, containing article by George Swarzenski "An early Ango-Irish portable shrine".
	Date:31 May 1956-19 January 1957	Extent:3 items

A35/19	Scope and Content:Christmas card from Fr Séamus Ó Deaghdha, with a motif themed on the Galway Oyster Festival.
	Date:Christmas 1958	Extent:2 pp

A35/20	Scope and Content:Printed card from [G.Lannin] to [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], recalling a Mass on Inchagoill island on 10 July, with photographs from The Connacht Tribune, a drawing of the "stone of Lugnaedon", and a prayer.
	Date:Christmas 1960	Extent:3 pp

A35/21	Scope and Content:Typescript letter from [J.]Watters, Town Clerk, Galway Corporation, to G.A.Hayes-McCoy, Great Southern Hotel, Galway, and handwritten summary reply by Hayes-McCoy. The Corporation is planning to re-use railings taken from Eyre Square at University College; Hayes-McCoy requesting to use them for a section facing St.P[atrick's] Avenue were they to be scrapped.
	Date:10-15 December 1964	Extent:1 p

A35/22	Scope and Content:File of Christmas and Easter cards from J.J.Waldron, Honorary Secretary of The Old Galway Society, Taylor's Hill, Galway, to [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], each with a short historical précis from local history - one on Dr.Oliver Kelly, Archbishop of Tuam. Also including stationery with Society letterhead stating its aims.
	Date:1965 and undated	Extent:6 items

A35/23	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from [O'Snoddy], Director of National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, to Hayes-McCoy, giving citation of an article in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, on "The wars of Turlough" [in preparation of Irish battles]. Inviting him to see two Drogheda guild banners if he has not seen them yet.
	Date:'Thursday' [1968]	Extent:1 p

A35/24	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from Marion [ ] to Gerry [Hayes-McCoy], explaining that the enclosed was found by Mr Collier; sending it to him on loan. Enclosing copy of The Past - The organ of the Uí Ceinnsealaigh Historical Society no.1 (November 1920), c.83 pp.
	Date:1 December 1973	Extent:2 items

A35/25	Scope and Content:Holograph letter by [J.A.MacCauley], 129 Castle Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin, to G.A.Hayes-McCoy, regarding contact address for the Old Dublin Fusiliers, and other sources for military heraldry. Returning Mr Mann's letter [not extant].
	Date:17 December 1973	Extent:2 pp

A35/26	Scope and Content:Badges for the Naval Service: File of correspondence, press cutting, and graphical material regarding the redesign of crests [badges] for four Irish Navy vessels, Deirdre, Banba, Fódhla, Gráinne. Correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy, Captain Tom McKenna and Ensign Costello, Naval Offices in Dublin and Haulbowline respectively. Including sketches by Hayes-McCoy for Banba and Fódhla crests.
	Date:1959-1973	Extent:5 items

	3 Publications and drafts
	Date:1943-[1977]	Extent:67 items

	3.1 Publications
	Date:1943-[1977]	Extent:38 items

	3.1.1 Books
		Extent:13 items

	3.1.1.1 "Historical Studies" vol.4 1963
		Extent:1 item

A35/27	Scope and Content:Press cutting from the New Statesman with a review by Christopher Hill of Historical Studies IV edited by G.A. Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:9 August 1963	Extent:2 pp

	3.1.1.2 "The Irish at war" 1965
		Extent:3 items

A35/28	Scope and Content:File of correspondence between G.A. Hayes-McCoy, Raidió Éireann, J.M.Feehan of The Mercier Press, Cork, and the contributors to the 1956-lecture series "The Irish at war", regarding publication of their papers. [published 1964 by Mercier.]
	Date:April 1963-June 1964	Extent:19 items

A35/29	Scope and Content:Leaflet from Mercier Press at the World Book Fair, London, publicizing their books including The Irish at war, edited by G Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:June 1964	Extent:2 pp

A35/30	Scope and Content:Printed review by T. Ó Ceallaigh from Studia Hibernica, volume 5, of The Irish at war, edited by Prof Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:[1964]	Extent:2 pp

	3.1.1.3 "Ulster and other Irish maps, c.1600" 1964
		Extent:3 items

A35/31	Scope and Content:File of correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, and various representatives and officials at the British Museum, the County Museum Armagh, UCD (Ó Ríordáin, Dudley-Edwards), The Irish Manuscripts Commission, The Ordnance Survey of Ireland, The National Museum of the Antiquities of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and a number of private individuals, in preparation of his 1964-publication Ulster and other Irish maps, c.1600.
	Date:1955-1964	Extent:133 items

A35/32	Scope and Content:File of photographs of four maps, and negatives. Two negative images match maps contained, two are of maps contained in G.A. Hayes-McCoy's Ulster and other Irish maps, c.1600; no indication of provenance.
	Date:[1964]	Extent:6 items

A35/33	Scope and Content:Offprint from Seanchas Ard Mhacha [vol.5 no.1], containing review section including a review by Tomás Ó Fiaich of G.A.Hayes-McCoy's Ulster and other Irish maps, c.1600 (Dublin 1964). With a handwritten dedication by Ó Fiaich.
	Date:1969	Extent:10 pp

	3.1.1.4 "Irish battles" 1969
		Extent:3 items

A35/34	Scope and Content:File of request slips for books [at a Dublin library], filled in by G.A.Hayes-McCoy on three visits. Seemingly material he consulted in preparing Irish battles.
	Date:[May 1968]	Extent:10 pp

A35/35	Scope and Content:Envelope with 16 negatives, with caption "Photos of Irish battles and military scenes", and bearing Hayes-McCoy's name. (Images corresponding to illustrations in Irish battles.)
	Date:[1968]	Extent:17 items

A35/36	Scope and Content:Late typescript draft of G.A.Hayes-McCoy's Irish battles, excepting front matter, first chapter and two central chapters. Few handwritten insertions and corrections (paginated 13-150 and 204-396).
	Date:[1969]	Extent:384 pp

	3.1.1.5 "A history of Irish flags from earliest times" 1979
		Extent:3 items

A35/37	Scope and Content:File containing photographs, prints, press cuttings, handwritten notes and sketches relating to various Irish flags from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, including insignia worn by Irish units in the English army. Some material for printers of his A history of Irish flags from earliest times. Including undated pamphlet entitled Regimental colours, flags and banners by the Armagh Branch of the British Legion. Also including printed catalogue of Irish University Press with comments on this publication.
	Date:[1960s-1970s]	Extent:c.60 items

A35/38	Scope and Content:File of correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy, Mary M.Hayes-McCoy, and Mr Whitney Smith of the Flag Research Center in Winchester, regarding the publication potential of A history of Irish flags from earliest times, nearly complete at its author's death. Also including letter from Keeper at National Library of Ireland, to Mrs.M.M.Hayes-McCoy, in thanks for deposit of her husband's papers for this book.
	Date:September 1975- December 1978	Extent:8 items

A35/39	Scope and Content:Final typescript text of A History of Irish flags from earliest times by G.A. Hayes-McCoy. Enclosing file of handwritten and typed errata, mostly by Mary M. Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:1975 [-1979]	Extent:437 pp and enclosure

	3.1.2 Scholarly articles
		Extent:5 items

A35/40	Scope and Content:Hardbound collection of 12 offprints of essays by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, from various journals including the The Irish Sword, the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, An Cosantóir, including "The rebellion of 1798", "The defence of Ireland - a century ago", , "Insurgent efforts towards military organization, 1798". (Bound in 1963.)
	Date:[1943-1948]	Extent:c.90 pp

A35/41	Scope and Content:Bound offprint of article by G A Hayes-McCoy from Saint-Cyr - Revue de l'Ecole Spéciale Militaire Inter-Armes nos.15/16, entited "L'Irlande militante" dealing with the Dillon Regiment and the Irish Legion in the French Army [in French].
	Date:April/ August 1953	Extent:10 pp

A35/42	Scope and Content:Hardbound collection of 25 offprints of essays by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, from various journals including The Irish Sword, An Cosantóir, and others (unidentified); including "The hidden Galway", "St.Patrick's Cross". Also including pamphlet "The Battle of the Boyne" published by Bord Fáilte, and "Une embarcation Française en 1796" [unidentified magazine]. Enclosing 7pp of handwritten notes on E.B.Evans [Wicklow Militia] 1885 and 1 p (unidentified). (Numbered "3" and bound in 1959.)
	Date:[1951 -1958]	Extent:c.200 pp and enclosures

A35/43 See Also A35/ 13	Scope and Content:Hardbound collection of 25 essays and articles by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, mostly booklets or offprints from various journals including The Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, The Irish Sword, The Terminal, The African Missionary, and others. Including "Gaelic society in Ireland in the late sixteenth century", "The Battle of Benburb", "Militant Ireland", "The Easter Rising". Also including pieces on the Christian Brothers, "The background to the 1916 Rising" (Bord Fáilte), press cuttings from The Landmark and The Connacht Tribune. (Bound in 1968.)
	Date:[1958-1968]	Extent:c.210 pp

A35/44	Scope and Content:File of offprints and journals with historical essays by G.A.Hayes-McCoy in The Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, the Irish Sword, An Cosantóir, Studies, [Journal of the Butler Society], Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Breifne. Including "The MacDonalds of Mayo" (1936), "The Gallóglach Axe" (1937), "The early history of guns in Ireland" (1938/1939), "Sir John Davies in Cavan in 1606 and 1610" (1960). (Some duplicated in bound volumes.)
	Date:1936- 1970 (and undated)	Extent:19 items

	3.1.3. Press
		Extent:14 items

A35/46	Scope and Content:Press cuttings and printers' blocks of flags used for the series "Under these flags" by G.A. Hayes-McCoy in the Irish Press, relating to Irish military and proto-military flags.
	Date:June 1947 - January 1949	Extent:46 items

A35/47	Scope and Content:Scrapbook with press cuttings from The Galway Observer, compiled by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], containing a series of 18 articles entitled "These ships made history" signed "Puffin". Book inscribed "Christmas 1985 for Felicity with love, mum". Enclosing handwritten notes by the author for an unpublished piece on The Helga; a list of 20 articles published. Also a typescript impressionistic article by Hayes-McCoy entitled "A steamer goes forth".
	Date: 2 October 1949 - [ ]	Extent:15 pp and 3 enclosures

A35/48	Scope and Content:Scrapbook with press cuttings by G.A.Hayes-McCoy from the series "Memories and books" and "Battlefields of County Galway" (both Galway Observer), "Famous Irish battles (Irish Press 1957), and a few others covering similar themes. First series is a personal column, with childhood reminiscences as well as discussion of books such as Ernest B.Anderson's Sailing ships of Ireland as to its relevance for Galway.
	Date:1952-1957	Extent:17 pp

A35/49	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Press by G. A. Hayes-McCoy entitled "The abyss of evil in goodness", as part of a series "Books I read at twenty"; discussing the tale "Olalla" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
	Date:4 January 1963	Extent:1 p

A35/50	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Sunday Press by G.A. Hayes-McCoy entitled "Those Danes who fought with King William at the Boyne".
	Date:24 February 1963	Extent:1 p

A35/51	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Evening Press by G.A. Hayes-McCoy entitled "A defect in Irish education", where he questions the quality of education in history. Condensed from article in The University Review.
	Date:4 October 1963	Extent:1 p

A35/52	Scope and Content:File of press cuttings from The Sunday Press by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, with articles for the series "The heather blazing", on the 1798-insurrection and revolt.
	Date:2 August 1964	Extent:10 items

A35/53	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Independent by Michael O’Reilly entitled "Would-be sailor is a scholar", based on an interview with G.A.Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:15 January 1965	Extent:1 p

A35/54	Scope and Content:Scrapbook with press cuttings, compiled by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], from Irish newspapers including The Irish Press, The Irish Times, The Sunday Press (mostly untitled). Containing reviews by Hayes-McCoy of books published in English of historical interest, and often pertaining to military history. Including a review of Sir Charles Petrie's Wellington: a reassessment (1956); of Winston S.Churchill's A history of the English-speaking peoples vol.iii (1958); Cyril Falls' The first World War (1960); Captain Liddell Hart's Memoirs (1966); Thomas Pakenham's The year of liberty (1969); also contemporary concerns in Helmut Schmidt's Defence or retaliation (1963) and J.L.Moulton's Defence in a changing world (1964). Enclosing a number of press cuttings (December 1968- November 1973) set aside for inclusion in the book.
	Date:1955-1966 (-1973)	Extent:128 ff (and 26 enclosures)

A35/55	Scope and Content:File of press cuttings from The Irish Press, with a 12-part series by G.A.Hayes McCoy entitled "Historic Irish battles", containing an aerial photograph each, and a descriptive text. Also including two letters to the paper offering commentary, by Deasún Breatnach, and E.G.McNally.
	Date:30 November - 12 December 1970	Extent:14 items

A35/56 See Also A35/ 34-36, 58	Scope and Content:File of aerial photographs by Colman Doyle of Irish cities and rural areas that were scenes of battles; used for the Irish Press series Historic Irish battles". Comprising photographs of Derry, Benburb, Yellow Ford, Aughrim, Athlone, Limerick, Boyne, Vinegar Hill/Enniscorthy, and one marked unknown. (Several captions on the reverse sides. Some in duplicate, some variants not eventually used in the press, as e.g. of images of the Boyne near Oldcastle.)
	Date:[1970]	Extent:33 items

A35/57 See Also A35/55, 56	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Times entitled "The big three"; on the occasion of Éamonn de Valera's 90th birthday, with articles by Michael McInerney, G.A.Hayes-McCoy, and Terence de Vere-White, on de Valera, Michael Collins, and Arthur Griffith respectively, with Hayes-McCoy's piece examining Michael Collins "as military organiser". (With part of cover.)
	Date:14 October 1972	Extent:3 pp

A35/58	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from Harman Murtagh, The Military History Society of Ireland, Athlone, to Mrs.Hayes-McCoy, asking for publication details of her late husband's articles on Irish battles in The Irish Press; and about the original photographs. With handwritten note by recipient stating she sent photos, letter and offprint.
	Date:27 September 1987	Extent:2 pp

	3.1.4. Drafts for scholarly articles
		Extent:7 items

A35/60	Scope and Content:Handwritten draft of essay by G.A.Hayes-McCoy entitled "Irish soldiers of the '45"; additional note on folder that it was a contribution to the Monsignor Maloney memorial book. [Closely corresponding with finished essay Etienne Rynne (ed) North Munster Studies: essays in commemoration of Monsignor Michael Maloney (Limerick 1967) 315-331.]
	Date:1965	Extent:90 pp

A35/61	Scope and Content:Handwritten draft of paper [by G.A.Hayes-McCoy] entitled "The Boyne", with many corrections; early draft of chapter contained in Irish battles (Dublin 1969).
	Date:[1969]	Extent:20 pp

A35/62	Scope and Content:Printed proofs with handwritten corrections of article by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, "Sir Walter Scott and Ireland". (Corrections only to the layout, not by G.A. Hayes-McCoy.)
	Date:[1977]	Extent:14 pp

A35/63	Scope and Content:File of various notes and copy documents collected by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, for a possible paper on the battle of Tara, 1798. Including notes from John Jones, Impartial narrative of engagements [1798]; official memorandum on the battle held at Public Record Office [War Office papers, London], hand-drawn map.
	Date:undated	Extent:4 items

A35/64	Scope and Content:Handwritten draft of paper entitled “The Irish kilt” relating the views of Pádraic Pearse and Standish O’Grady on the subject of an Irish national dress.
	Date:undated	Extent:8 pp

A35/65	Scope and Content:Handwritten draft [paper] by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] entitled "To be like - tendencies in modern historical studies". Incipit: "Whether to paint Cromwell with or without his warts?..."
	Date:undated	Extent:7 pp

	3.2 Lectures, radio and television work
	Date:1946-1973	Extent:24 items

	3.2.1. Public lectures
		Extent:7 items

A35/66	Scope and Content:File of graphic images mounted on boards, partly drawn, partly pasted, some reprographs of drawings, compiled by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] to illustrate the Battle of Arklow. Marked also "for Curragh", originally forming part of a lecture. (numbered 1-10, with no.2 missing)
	Date:1946	Extent:10 items

A35/67	Scope and Content:File of handwritten draft and illustrations of paper "Guns and early history of their use in Ireland" by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] for a paper read in Limerick (1945) and for The Military History Society [of Ireland] (1951). With notes by author detailing contents.
	Date:1945-1951	Extent:3 items

A35/68 See Also A35/ 117	Scope and Content:Lecture notes for a talk by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] entitled "Irish in the American Civil War", given to the Old Waterford Society in 1954 and to the 1916-1921 Club in 1957 (paginated 1-27). The reverse pages (35, 45-67) contain a hand-written draft of a section for the "Pageant of St. Patrick". Enclosing press cutting with caricature "Pyke Portrait" of G.A.Hayes-McCoy, holding two pistols.
	Date:1954-1957	Extent:61 pp

A35/69	Scope and Content:File of drafts, and notes for a lecture by G.A. Hayes-McCoy given at the Galway Historical and Archaeological Society, entitled "Galway docks in the 19th century (44 pp). Including notes taken from the Galway Harbour Commissioners minute books (1836-1849).
	Date:c.1970	Extent:3 items

A35/70	Scope and Content:Poster for a lecture by G. A. Hayes-McCoy entitled "The Battle of Wicklow, 1599 - a forgotten Irish victory" given at the Technical School, Bray. Enclosing (pasted) a press cutting "Pyke Portrait" - caricature of Hayes-McCoy, a pistol in either hand.
	Date:19 Jan [1949, 1955 or 1972]	Extent:2 items

A35/71	Scope and Content:Handwritten drafts of paper by G.A.Hayes-McCoy entitled "Ireland and Europe in the sixteenth century"; lecture given to The History Teachers' Association, Galway Branch, and the History Society, Maynooth.
	Date:May- October 1973	Extent:2 items

	3.2.2. Radio and television work
		Extent:24 items

	3.2.2.1 Book reviews 1955
		Extent:1 item

A35/72	Scope and Content:Typed radio script entitled "Book reviews" by G.A.Hayes-McCoy for Raidió Éireann, discussing J.F.C.Fuller's The decisive battles of the western world vol.11, and Howard Swiggett's March or die.
	Date:18 April 1955	Extent:7 pp

	3.2.2.2 Thomas Davis Lecture series (Raidió Eireann) 1 1955-1963
		Extent:5 items

A35/74	Scope and Content:File of draft and final texts of radio lectures on Irish battles for the Thomas Davis series on Raidió Éireann, entitled "The battle of Faughart, 1318" [by G.O.Sayles], "The battle of Benburb 1646" and "Militant Ireland: a summary" by G.A.Hayes-McCoy. (Covering letters for Sayles' lecture at A35/ 73 and A35/ 28.)
	Date:[1956]	Extent:5 items

A35/75	Scope and Content:Press cutting from the RTV-Guide entitled "It’s a success story" by Frank McManus, discussing the success of the Thomas Davis lecture series, and ascribing to Hayes-McCoy's programme about Irish battles a good response from the listeners.
	Date:12 January 1962	Extent:1 p

A35/76	Scope and Content:Press cutting from the Irish Press of a column by Patrick Lagan, entitled "The book of all knowledge about Ireland", including a section on the next Thomas Davis Lecture Series. Dealing with Ireland between 1916 and 1926, it features a lecture by G.A. Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:29 December 1962	Extent:1 p

A35/77	Scope and Content:Press cutting from the RTV- Guide by G.A. Hayes McCoy entitled "The Arms Hunt"; excerpt from his Thomas Davis lecture "The conduct of the Anglo-Irish war" on Raidió Éireann.
	Date:February 1963	Extent:1 p

A35/78	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The RTV- Guide by G.A.Hayes-McCoy entitled "Culloden", and referring to a forthcoming television documentary on the battle.
	Date:12 March 1965	Extent:1 p

	3.2.2.3 "Irish battles" (Teilifís Eireann) 1965
		Extent:9 items

A35/79	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The RTV- Guide of letter from A. Mitchell, County Tyrone, on their documentary on Culloden.
	Date:26 March 1965	Extent: 1 p

A35/80	Scope and Content:File of handwritten and typescript notes by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, and draft essays, in preparation of the television series on Irish battles; with drafts for the battles of Clontarf, for Norman battles, battle of Farsetmore.
	Date:[September 1965]	Extent:7 items

A35/81	Scope and Content:File of correspondence between producer Michael Johnston of Raidió / Teilifís Éireann, and G.Hayes-McCoy, regarding a television programme entitled "Irish battles", written by Hayes-McCoy. Including a letter from J.R.Stevenson, Dromore, County Donegal, adding additional information on the programme on the battle of Farsetmore, being the current landholder of the site.
	Date:June -October 1965	Extent:4 items

A35/82	Scope and Content:File of copy scripts (nos.1-3, 5) by [Raidió/Teilifís Éireann] team under Michael Johnston for four parts of the series "Irish battles", with G.A.Hayes-McCoy engaged as a speaker. Containing battles of Clontarf, Waterford and Dysart O'Dea, Farsetmore, and Benburb. (One handwritten correction.)
	Date:September -November 1965	Extent:4 items

A35/83	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Times by Ken Gray entitled "Battles long ago", reviewing the documentary on the battle of Clontarf narrated by G.A.Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:30 September 1965	Extent:1 p

A35/84	Scope and Content:File of press cuttings from The RTV- Guide by G.A.Hayes-McCoy entitled "Irish battles", introducing a new series on Teilifís Éireann, and dealing with the battles of Dysert O'Dea and Farsetmore respectively.
	Date:24 September 1965	Extent:3 items

A35/85	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Independent, containing a complimentary review by Brian Devenney of the documentary on Farsetmore in 1567, delivered by G.A. Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:30 October 1965	Extent:1 p

A35/86	Scope and Content:File of press cuttings from The Evening Herald, the RTV- Guide and other papers, with listings for instalments of the weekly series "Irish battles".
	Date:27 September - 19 November 1965	Extent:6 items

A35/88	Scope and Content:File of press cuttings from The RTV- Guide featuring the first instalments of a documentary television series on the course of Irish history "The Long Winter", written in collaboration with G.A.Hayes-McCoy. First part focuses on "The Great O’Neill".
	Date:25 February-1 April 1966	Extent:2 items

	3.2.2.4 "The long winter" (Raidió/ Teilifís Eireann) 1965-1966
		Extent:4 items

A35/87	Scope and Content:Handwritten draft scripts by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] for a television programme entitled "Prelude to 1916", comprising parts 1 ("Enduring Ireland c.1595-1652") and 2 (no title).
	Date:1965	Extent:2 items

A35/89	Scope and Content:Press cuttings from The RTV- Guide with listings for "The Course of Irish History" series, with the episode on the Tudor Conquest written by G.A. Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:1 April 1966	Extent:2 items

A35/90	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Times containing an advertisement for "Two centuries of Irish history", adapted from the recent BBC Northern Ireland radio programmes, with Gerard Hayes-McCoy listed among the contributors.
	Date:8-9 April 1966	Extent:1 p

	3.2.2.5 Thomas Davis Lecture series (Raidió Eireann) 2 1966-1971
		Extent:4 items

A35/91	Scope and Content:File of press cuttings from The Irish Times and [ ], compiled by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], presumably in preparation for his lecture on Irish defence policy. Including Denis Ireland "In time of the breaking of nat[ions]" (Irish Times 3 February 1968).
	Date:1968-1971	Extent:3 items

A35/92	Scope and Content:File of notes compiled by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], from John W.Blake Northern Ireland in the second World War (1956), the Dáil Debates 1939-1945, and press articles including Denis Ireland "In time of the breaking of nat[ions]" (The Irish Times 3 February 1968) and Aidan Hennigan "Roosevelt's bid for Irish bases" ([ ] 2 January 1971). Compiled in preparation for his lecture on Irish defence policy.
	Date:[1966]-1971	Extent:2 items

A35/93	Scope and Content:File of correspondence between G.A. Hayes-McCoy, Kevin B. Nowlan, RTÉ, Gill & MacMillan. Relating to Hayes-McCoy's Thomas Davis Lecture (part 4) on "Irish Defence Policy, 1939-45", later included in a book edited by Kevin B. Nowlan based on the programmes. Also including review by Augustine Martin (The Irish Press 4 February 1967).
	Date:1966-1971	Extent:13 items

	4 Foundation of the Military History Society of Ireland 1949 and editorship of "The Irish Sword"
	Date:1949-[1975]	Extent:10 items

	4.1 The Military History Society of Ireland
	Date:1949-1968	Extent:4

A35/96	Scope and Content:Beginnings of the Society: File of correspondence, statutes, minutes of meetings, and promotional material concerning foundation and first meetings of The Military History Society of Ireland. Including letters from Diarmuid Murtagh outlining scope and potential presidency of the Society, first bulletin of the Society (December 1949) with a list of c.40 members.
	Date:January 1949-[ ] 1950	Extent:8 items

A35/97	Scope and Content:Photocopies of programme and map issued for a visit by The Military History Society to Galway, prepared by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, with purpose of visiting scenes of the capture of Galway by the Williamite forces in 1691. Including a page of maps.
	Date:9-10 June 1962	Extent:3 pp

A35/98	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Times with a photograph and article on the investiture of Sir Charles Petrie with the insignia of the President of The Military History Society of Ireland, featuring Colonel P. J. Hally, Sir Charles Petrie, G.A.Hayes-McCoy and Lieutenant-Colonel R.W. Bunworth.
	Date:30 November 1963	Extent:1 p

A35/99	Scope and Content:Proposal Museum for Military History: File of documents regarding a proposal to found a Museum of Military History for Ireland, mooting Athlone as a location. Including correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy and other members of The Military History Society of Ireland council, and text of proposal for a museum.
	Date:May - December 1968	Extent:14 items

	4.2 "The Irish Sword"
	Date:1949-[1975]	Extent:6

A35/100	Scope and Content:File of correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy, Diarmuid Murtagh, Athlone, and Percy White, Folkestone, England, regarding certain graphic material to be used for The Irish Sword [vol.1] no.3. Including pencil and coloured drawings by Percy White of the Fitzjames Cavalrymen (1738), and others.
	Date:September 1949-July 1951	Extent:9 items

A35/101	Scope and Content:Irish Sword editorship- correspondence : File of correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy as the editor of The Irish Sword, co-editor Diarmuid Murtagh, and contributors and reading public, including Percy White (Essex), Joseph V.Carroll (Long Island USA), Liam Ó Briain (Galway), H.Malcolm McKee (Bangor, County Down). Dealing with past or forthcoming issues of the periodical, offering or commenting on copy, making research suggestions. Including sketch by White of an Irish fusilier in Bourbon Irish brigade c.1801; information by Ó Briain on a newly-discovered programme for Kirwan's Lane Theatre for a 1783 play that Wolfe Tone acted in. (Enclosures mostly separated and now in A35/7/18.)
	Date:July 1950- May 1954	Extent:16 items

A35/102	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Illustrated London News by Cyril Falls entitled "A window on the world - The Irish Sword", with an appreciation of The Military History Society of Ireland and its journal. Praising particularly head of the Society Sir Charles Petrie, and the editor G.A.Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:23 January 1954	Extent:1 p

A35/103	Scope and Content:File of drafts for articles by G.A.Hayes-McCoy for inclusion in The Irish Sword; one of which unpublished: "Robert Emmet's folding pikes" (undated).
	Date:undated	Extent:3 items

A35/104	Scope and Content:Irish Sword editorship - preparing copy: File of textual and graphical copy, research material, and handwritten drafts for various contributions to The Irish Sword during Hayes-McCoy's editorship. Much with handwritten instructions for the printer. Including cuttings parts of Human interest stories of the battles at Gettysburg (undated); an original song by Diarmuid Murtagh "Walter Bourke's men"; photograph of painting of officer of the Louth militia, at the Drogheda Municipal Art Gallery. (Including some material originally enclosed with covering letters now at A35/ 101).
	Date:[1950s]	Extent:69 items

A35/105	Scope and Content:Hand-drawn map by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], entitled "Killiney Bay, 1793-1815", to accompany an article by Ó Duibhir. [Likely Pól Ó Duibhir's "The French are on the sea: a military history of Killiney Bay 1793-1815, in The Irish Sword vol.xii no.46 (Summer 1975) 55-61.]
	Date:[1975]	Extent:2 items

	5 Other academic work and related interests
	Date:(1910) 1956-1965	Extent:31 items

	5.1 Participation at conference, delegations
	Date:1956-1965	Extent:4 items

A35/106	Scope and Content:Copy of printed programme for See also the Irish Exhibition in Portsmouth, promoted by Portsmouth Irish Society. A35/ 12 Detailing 13 sections of the exhibition.
	Date:10 September-7 October 1956	Extent:20 pp

A35/107	Scope and Content:Photoalbum compiled by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, containing postcards, stationery, and other mementoes such as receipts, illustrating his journey by boat and train to Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen, and attendance at the 11th Congrès International des Sciences Historiques in Stockholm. Postcards including items from institutions visited, as the Armémuseum, Stockholm. Also including programme for an event celebrating the salvage work on the sunken ship Wasa, Stockholm, 26 August. Enclosing some blank postcards, and one from (illegible), Uppsala, to Hayes-McCoy, with season's greetings.
	Date:August [-December] 1960	Extent:39 pp (and 5 enclosures)

A35/108	Scope and Content:Printed programme for the Irish Conference of Historians, University College, Galway, for which Hayes-McCoy acted as Organising Secretary, and at which he gave the inaugural lecture; other papers given by J.G.Simms, Trinity College, Dublin; Hugh Trevor-Roper, Oxford.
	Date:25-27 May 1961	Extent:4 pp

A35/109	Scope and Content:Photoalbum and scrapbook of press and magazine cuttings, travel tickets, cards, correspondence, programmes for events, collected by G.A.Hayes-McCoy documenting his part in the Irish delegation to the Admiral Brown Centenary Celebrations in Buenos Aires, March 1957, headed by Minister of Defence General Mac Eoin. Hayes-McCoy travelled representing President Ó Ceallaigh, and as the President of the Irish Committee of Homage to Admiral Brown. With press material from The Irish Press, La Prensa, La Nación, The Standard (Buenos Aires), La Razon, and others. Correspondence including letters from Department of Education, Argentinean Legation (Dublin), Comisión de homenaje al almirante Guillermo Brown (Buenos Aires), Argentinean Departments of the Defence and of Foreign Affairs, Rotary Club (Buenos Aires), and others. Illustrating journey, festive receptions, parade of troops, a Te Deum, and other events. Containing c.55 black-and-white photographs from events, and of museum artefacts, few with captions. Also including special envelopes and stamps; letters from children Ian, Robert, Mary (and two items removed). Enclosing Christmas cards, calling cards (F.G.Sonvico, Norberto Silva D'Herbil), photograph of commemorative medal in Spanish for Mayor McSwiney. Enclosing also report by [Hayes-McCoy] for the Department of External Affairs, listing events and stressing the warm and extensive hospitality given by all groups, and the high respect for Brown evident everywhere. [partly in Spanish]
	Date:1957-1965	Extent:c.100 pp (and 13 enclosures)

	5.2 Collaboration over Dublin pageants
	Date:1945-1956	Extent:17 items

	5.2.1. Military Tattoo and Exhibition 1945
		Extent:1 item

A35/110	Scope and Content:Copy of The illustrated book of the military tattoo and exhibition (Dublin 1945), for the events held at the R.D.S., Dublin, 27August - 8 September. Listing G.A.Hayes-McCoy, National Museum, as "honorary historical adviser". Aside from programme, also including contextualising pieces on army and national themes; essays on Owen Ruadh O'Neill, on the battle of Benburb (by J.Dowling), a short story.
	Date:July 1945	Extent:76 pp

	5.2.2 "Trumpet call" 1953
		Extent:6 items

A35/111	Scope and Content:File of correspondence (including draft) between G.A.Hayes-McCoy, Major-General Aodh Mac Néill, organiser of An Tóstal, and Louis Elliman, managing director Irish Cinemas Ltd., over Hayes-McCoy's role as advisor and script-writer for the first Irish An Tóstal and its stage production at the Theatre Royal entitled "Trumpet Call". Enclosing several memoranda with draft programmes for the show. Hayes-McCoy's advice was taken particularly on costumes, and he furnished organisers with drawings.
	Date:January - April 1953	Extent:15 items

A35/112	Scope and Content:Early handwritten draft script by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] entitled "Scene Three", dealing with the arrival of the Danes. Setting scene, suggesting action and costumes. (Corresponding to part III in the "Trumpet Call"-programme.) Adding note on the liberty taken with historical fact.
	Date:[1953]	Extent:6 pp

A35/113	Scope and Content:Handwritten memorandum and draft scripts by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] entitled "Scene Five", offering a history of Dublin over 1,000 years, told by the River Liffey. Detailed stage directions and dialogue, introducing Silken Thomas, Hugh O'Neill, King James, and John Mitchel. (Corresponding to part VII in the "Trumpet Call")
	Date:[1953]	Extent:3 items

A35/114	Scope and Content:Handwritten draft script by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] entitled "Scene Seven: The fighting race", dealing with Irish brigades in foreign engagements over the centuries, breaking off with Papal Brigade of 1860. [Not eventually used for "Trumpet Call".]
	Date:[1953]	Extent:7 pp

A35/115	Scope and Content:Printed programme for the first national An Tóstal run by Bórd Fáilte and the Irish Defence Forces, detailing local events. ("The Trumpet Call" is here listed under "Variety" and quoted as "Pageant Revue: The Four Green Fields".)
	Date:April 1953	Extent:32 pp

A35/116	Scope and Content:Printed programme for the "Trumpet Call" at the Theatre Royal, presented by T.R.Royle with co-operation of the Department of Defence. "Featuring officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Defence Forces, army bands with drums and pipes and a galaxy of Irish vaudeville stars". (Not listing Hayes-McCoy's involvement.)
	Date:April 1953	Extent:16 pp

	5.2.3. An Tóstal "Pageant of St.Patrick" 1954 and 1955
		Extent:7 items

A35/117 See Also A35/ 68	Scope and Content:Typescript first draft script by G.A.Hayes-McCoy of "The pageant of Saint Patrick" in three episodes (70 pp), to be staged in Drogheda April 17. Set in Drogheda, Slane, and Tara. Enclosing handwritten notes to be inserted in the text, and separate notes with further additions. (Including full copy of episode 3).
	Date: [Spring] 1954	Extent:2 items

A35/118	Scope and Content:Typescript letter from Major-General Aodh Mac Néill, organiser of An Tóstal, Bord Fáilte, Dublin, to G.A.Hayes-McCoy, Dublin, in thanks for the script of the third episode of the "Pageant of St.Patrick"; promising duplicates; asking him to contact the trustees regarding the financial aspect. With handwritten notes by Hayes-McCoy; the trustees had not replied by late March.
	Date:5-21 March 1954	Extent:1 p

A35/119	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Press entitled "Tóstal pageant will be record", relating of plans for "one of the biggest pageants ever to be staged in Europe", to be staged in Drogheda, Slane, and Tara, with a cast of 2,000, and very exacting logistics for Slane and Tara. Mentioning the script written by Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:3 April 1954	Extent:1 p

A35/120	Scope and Content:Copy typed script by [Micheál Mac Liammóir] entitled "A pageant of St.Patrick", in two acts and seven episodes, set on Sliabh Mis, in Slane, and on Croagh Patrick.
	Date:[Spring 1955]	Extent:37 pp

A35/121	Scope and Content:File of correspondence and draft notes for letters between E.P.Kearney, Assistant Secretary An Bord Fáilte (An Tóstal Section), G.A.Hayes-McCoy, Micheál Mac Liammóir. Hayes-McCoy is engaged as technical consultant for the preparation of the script by Mac Liammóir, and comments on specific historical points in the script, Mac Liammóir taking some on board. Particular advice is given on "changelings", on "straw boys", the unhistorical nature of clerical headdress (mitre) for the saint. Mac Liammóir disagrees on withholding use of word "druid" which holds a "vital portion of dramatic function"; agreeing on a point that will appear anti-English but arguing he did not act out of racial prejudice and that "the intelligent English would be the last to deny that their portion (sic) in Ireland's history has been on the whole unfortunate" (25 March).
	Date:29 January - 21 April 1955	Extent:9 items

A35/122	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Press entitled "700 to act Tóstal Pageant - festival opening at Croke Park", with details of the pageant, but also the other sporting and arts events. Mentioning director Hilton Edwards, script-writer Micheál Mac Liammóir, and G.A.Hayes-McCoy acting as historical advisor.
	Date:15 March 1955	Extent:1 p

A35/123	Scope and Content:Printed programme for "A pageant of St.Patrick", to be staged at Croke Park, Dublin, with a list of the cast, a synopsis, and the text of "The breastplate of St.Patrick". Listing Hayes-McCoy as historical consultant to the pageant.
	Date:8-29 May 1955	Extent:12 pp

	5.2.4. An Tóstal "Pageant of Cú Chulainn" 1956
		Extent:6 items

A35/124	Scope and Content:Copy typed script by Denis Johnston entitled "Táin Bó Cuailgne - a pageant of the great Cattle Raid of Cooley and of the high deeds of Cúchulainn, champion of Ulster", with few pencil corrections [by Johnston]. Written for Bord Fáilte for performance during An Tóstal 1956. Falling into four parts and 28 sections; including notes on "general approach", list of parts, notes on costumes, and on the sequence; set in Rathcroghan and various parts of southern Ulster.
	Date:[Spring] 1956	Extent:63 pp

A35/125	Scope and Content:File of correspondence and draft notes, between G.A.Hayes-McCoy, Bord Fáilte Éireann and the organisers of An Tóstal, scriptwriter Denis Johnston, concerning the Cúchulainn pageant for 1956. Hayes-McCoy is engaged as technical consultant for the preparation of the script by Johnston. Praise from him for the script and its "timeless" story (16 February), and for its eventual performance. Also referring to plans for the 1957 Pageant, with Hayes-McCoy suggesting certain unnamed themes. Including notes listing books of reference (e.g. Myles Dylon, T.F. O'Rahilly), particular points about Lug.
	Date:18 November 1955-late May 1956	Extent:14 items

A35/126	Scope and Content:Printed programme for "Glóirréim Chú Chulainn - The pageant of Cuchulainn", organised by An Tóstal. Including a "Note on the theme" by Denis Johnston, a lists of scenes, and of the cast. Listing Hayes-McCoy as consultant.
	Date:16-21 May 1956	Extent:6 pp

	5.3 Galway interest
	Date:1958-1964	Extent:10

	5.3.1 General, and lecturing aids
		Extent:3 items

A35/127	Scope and Content:File of pencil and ink drawings of maps of Galway by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], made for teaching purposes. All maps of city centre, marking out particular features such as the old city walls, two maps identifying old and new street names. Some numbered as part of a series.
	Date:undated	Extent:9 items

A35/128	Scope and Content:File of pencil and ink maps of Galway by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], made for teaching or lecturing purposes. All with elevations of buildings, two identified as extracts from Speed's map of Galway, and from the 1651 map of Galway.
	Date:undated	Extent:4 items

A35/129	Scope and Content:Handwritten numbered list and notes by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] of 17 coats of arms and other carved heraldic features on Galway's buildings, seemingly for a public lecture accompanied by photographic images, adding sketches and notes by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] on two heraldic features in carved stone; fireplace in Sir Peter French's house, tomb of same French in Franciscan church, both Galway.
	Date:undated	Extent:3 pp

	5.3.2 Lion's Tower campaign
		Extent:7 items

A35/130	Scope and Content:File of notes, drawings, maps, by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], from his research on the Lion's Tower bastion, Galway. With notes on the maps consulted at the National Library, Dublin, sketching relevant sections of these with regard to the bastion. Also including two more elaborately copied maps - one from 1790, one of a property map regarding Thomas Staunton, Esq.
	Date:(1940) [1960s]	Extent:4 items

A35/131	Scope and Content:File of notes and correspondence regarding subscriptions for a fund set up by G.A.Hayes-McCoy to preserve the Lion's Tower. Listing subscribers, and including a letter from Fr.L.J.Taheney, Claddagh Church, Galway, praising Hayes-McCoy for fighting a battle for a national treasure "solus in Israel".
	Date:December 1961- March 1962	Extent:6 items

A35/132	Scope and Content:File of memoranda, agenda, and circular by G.A. Hayes-McCoy, pertaining to the advisory involvement of The Military History Society of Ireland in the campaign to preserve the Lion's Tower, Galway. Protesting that the demolition of the bastion "would be a national disgrace", although in its present unpreserved state it resembles merely a "mouldy old ruin". Including list of recipients of letters from the Society, including A.Blake [owner], Lord Rosse, Lord Killanin.
	Date:undated	Extent:4 items

A35/133	Scope and Content:Handwritten draft lecture by G.A.Hayes-McCoy, given to the Irish Countrywomen's Association, Galway branch, on the subject of the Lion's Tower. Summarising history of the structure, and current attempts to preserve it for the future.
	Date:Autumn 1962	Extent:24 pp

A35/134	Scope and Content:File of memorandum and draft press statement, entitled "Case for preservation made before Borough Council by Old Galway Society".
	Date:undated	Extent:2 items

A35/135	Scope and Content:File of correspondence between G.A.Hayes-McCoy and The Military History Society, and Galway Corporation, The Office of Public Works, and private parties concerned with the future of the landmark "The Lion's Tower"; also correspondence between other interested parties such as Lord Killanin and Bord Fáilte [forwarded to Hayes-McCoy]. All regarding the campaign for saving the Tower, in the hope to acquire the property from succeeding owners A.Blake and John Higgins, including presentations of The Old Galway Society to the Corporation. Including an earlier letter from Matilda Redington, Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, to Dr.Costello, asking his opinion on the Society leasing Lion's Tower from the landlord to establish an outdoor museum (8 October 1910). Also including a report in letter form by Hayes-McCoy about the campaign and its ultimate failure (30 July 1964).
	Date:(1910) March 1958- July 1964	Extent:55 items

A35/136	Scope and Content:File of press cuttings collected by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy ] from the Connacht Tribune, Evening Herald, Galway Observer, The Irish Press, Connacht Sentinel, and other papers, all regarding the proposed part demolition of the "Lion's Tower", and the reaction of Galway Borough Council when contractor Higgins left the site idle for some period in 1965.
	Date:May 1958- May 1965	Extent:68 items

	5.4 Involvement with The Bureau of Military History
	Date:[January 1948]	Extent:1

A35/137	Scope and Content:Copies of material printed by The Bureau of Military History (Department of the Defence), regarding the 1916 Rising. Comprising copy of the questionnaire given to participants, and the chronologies for pre-1916, and from the surrender 1916 to 1920. Inscribed partly G.A.Hayes-McCoy. [Only one chronology is dated; the Military Archives date the questionnaire to 1948 onwards.]
	Date:[January 1948]	Extent:4 items

	6 Private interest: drawings and exhibitions
	Date:1925-1969	Extent:42 items

	6.1 Drawings
	Date:1925-1969	Extent:41

A35/138	Scope and Content:Two drawing books by G.A.Hayes McCoy containing rough sketches in ink, and coloured scenes from land and sea battles, plans of ships, fortresses, machinery. Also enclosing unrelated colour painting (a drawing room).
	Date:1925-1926	Extent:3 items (210 x 335 cm)

A35/139	Scope and Content:Two drawing books by G.A.Hayes-McCoy entitled "Battle scenes books I and IV", with ink and colour drawings. First comprising 17th-19th c.British land battles (with index), second European sea battles from Antiquity to 18th c. Enclosing loose sheet with another battle scene [Napoleonic].
	Date:[1920s]	Extent:2 items (310 x 240 cm)

A35/140	Scope and Content:Pencil and crayon drawing by G.A.Hayes-McCoy of Terryland Castle, Galway, looking west. (Numbered "3")
	Date:March 1927	Extent:190 x 188 mm

A35/141	Scope and Content:File of pencil and crayon drawings by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] with nautical subjects, usually naming ships and their original ports, most seemingly done in Galway, one specified "from the Long Walk". Among the ships are the SS.Maique, Limerick, SS. Wheatcrop, Cardiff, SS. Paris, Glasgow.
	Date:January - [ ] 1928	Extent:13 items (227 x 172 and 1 at 172 x 112)

A35/142	Scope and Content:Watercolour painting by G.A.Hayes-McCoy entitled "Dún Laoghaire, West Pier".
	Date:1931	Extent:255 x 178 cm

A35/143	Scope and Content:Pencil and coal drawing by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) subscribed "[Rez] The Oaks 1936".
	Date:1936	Extent:226 x 175 mm

A35/144	Scope and Content:Pencil and ink drawing by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] entitled "Buttermilk Lane 1850 c."; looking towards St.Nicholas Cathedral.
	Date:20 February 1940	Extent:224 x 140 mm

A35/145	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Windemere at Dun Laoghaire.
	Date:Summer 1953	Extent:250 x 300 mm

A35/146	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketches by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of a Slaney cot, Enniscorthy.
	Date:August 1955	Extent:2 items (250x300mm)

A35/147	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of The Harvest King at Arklow docks.
	Date:August 1955	Extent:150x300mm

A35/148	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) entitled "At Beaver Row", Clonskea, Dublin.
	Date:2 April 1956	Extent:250 x 300mm

A35/149	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Arran Monarch at Watchet Quay.
	Date:July 1956	Extent:300 x 250m

A35/150	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of Brixham docks.
	Date:July 1956	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/151	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy](unsigned) of the Lady Dorothy of Glasgow at Waterford Docks.
	Date:3 July 1956	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/152	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Eilian of Barnstable, drawn at Ilfracombe.
	Date:4 July 1956	Extent:330 x 250mm

A35/153	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Mary Steward and Lilian at Ilfracombe.
	Date:4 July 1956	Extent:330 x 250mm

A35/154	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy](unsigned) of Dublin docks, showing the Wimbourne of Poole, the Mercator of Antwerp and the Ballykirk of Belfast.
	Date:31 July 1956	Extent:330 x 270mm

A35/155	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Windermere and Invermore of Arklow.
	Date:22 August 1956	Extent:250 x 300mm

A35/156	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Seabank of Dublin at Youghal.
	Date:1958	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/157	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the De Wadden at Youghal.
	Date:1958	Extent:250 x 300mm

A35/158	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of a Galway Street.
	Date:Summer 1960	Extent:250 x 300mm

A35/159	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Sisyphus dredger at Dunmore East.
	Date:14 July 1960	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/160	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Norden Kalmar in Stockholm.
	Date:August 1960	Extent:250 x 300mm

A35/161	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Sascha II of Stockholm in Stockholm.
	Date:August 1960	Extent:250 x 300mm

A35/162	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Glenbride and Glencullen at Dublin.
	Date: 1 May 1961	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/163	Scope and Content:File of pencil and paper sketches by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) with various boating and sailing scenes off Inishboffin, County Galway.
	Date:August 1961	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/164	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) entitled "The Dolleys' back-garden", Kingston, Middlesex.
	Date:14 July 1962	Extent:250 x 300mm

A35/165	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of boat in a backyard of Ballyhack, tower in the background.
	Date:August 1962	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/166	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of seafront or riverside buildings in Duncannon.
	Date:August 1962	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/167	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of stone fortress and lighthouse at Duncannon.
	Date:August 1962	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/168	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of Ballyhack quays and fronting houses.
	Date:August 1962	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/169	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the quays and fronting houses at Ballyhack.
	Date:August 1962	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/170	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the quay at Duncannon.
	Date:2 August 1962	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/171	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the 4th Motor Squadron at Duncannon Fort.
	Date:10 August 1962	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/172	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the docks at Passage East.
	Date:9 August 1963	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/173	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the Barbara of Duncannon.
	Date:3 August 1963	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/174	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] (unsigned) of the riverbank at Enniscorthy.
	Date:August 1964	Extent:300 x 250mm

A35/175	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch of the CIE Goods yard, Galway.
	Date:19 March 1969	Extent:230 x 175mm

A35/176	Scope and Content:Pencil and paper sketch of the CIE Goods yard, Galway.
	Date:19 March 1969	Extent:230 x 175mm

A35/177	Scope and Content:Coloured sketch of an Irish musketeer (Foot Guards), Battle of Aughrim 1691, by G.A.Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:undated	Extent:252 x 166 cm

A35/178	Scope and Content:File of copies of contemporary drawing of an Irish swordsman and a gallowglass. Original drawing from National Library of Ireland; copy drawing by G.A.Hayes-McCoy of the gallowglass, late 16th century. [This and the preceding item may have been used for copy for The Irish Sword.]
	Date:undated	Extent:3 items

	6.2 Exhibitions
	Date:1960	Extent:1

A35/179	Scope and Content:Catalogue for the Galway Art Club exhibition See also which includes three works by G A Hayes-McCoy entitled "The Metal A35/ 11 Man", "Appledore" and "Bridgewater Dock" (in ink and wash).
	Date:10-24 August 1960	Extent:8 pp

	7 Collected material
	Date:1800-1976	Extent:51 items

	7.1 Historical sources and copies: general
	Date:(1644-1884)	Extent:26

A35/180	Scope and Content:File of handwritten notes by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] from The composition of Connacht, and from Eoin Mac Neill Early Irish law and institutions, with reference to page numbers.
	Date:1585	Extent:2 items

A35/181	Scope and Content:Handwritten transcript of printed pamphlet by Lord Monroe, A full relation of the late expedition of...Lord Monr...e with their severall marches and skirmishes with the bloody Irish re...els (Bristol 1644). Note on folder, given to G.A.Hayes-McCoy by W.O'Sullivan in 1957.)
	Date:1644 (1957)	Extent:38 pp

A35/182	Scope and Content:Topographical map by D.Tomàs Lopez of the Spanish/Basque province of Guipuzcoa, offering scales of [Spanish] and Catalan leagues, a legend, and a key to religious houses contained in the map. Accompanying envelope with notes by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy]; map belonged to Sir Ulick Burgh, aide-de-camp to Wellington [in War of the Peninsula], later Lord Downes; later given to Hayes-McCoy by Sir Eric de Burgh June 1955.
	Date:1770 (and 1955)	Extent:305 x 305 mm (and envelope)

A35/183	Scope and Content:Fragment of Walker's Hibernian Magazine with article (unsigned) offering the "authentic memoirs" of Charles Vereker, MP for City of Limerick. Portrait of Vereker, also Colonel of the Limerick City Militia [and later Lord Gort]. With handwritten caption and signature of G.A.Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:May 1800	Extent:6 pp

A35/184	Scope and Content:Offprint of a calendar by Marguerite Hayes-McCoy entitled "The Eyre documents in University College, Galway" from the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society. [Comprising the second instalment of four.]
	Date:1800-1820 [1943]	Extent:28 pp

A35/185	Scope and Content:Handwritten transcripts of letters [made for G.A.Hayes-McCoy] of 1819 and 1824 by L.O'Brien, Woodfield, to William [his nephew], Warwickshire, advising him not to follow a military career, and arranging financial support.
	Date:1819/1824	Extent:4 pp

A35/186	Scope and Content:Press cutting from [ ] with a woodcut or engraving entitled "A captive Mitchelite, sketched from life on the hills of Tipperary", depicting handcuffed prisoner seated on a rock, a weeping woman, two government militia men and another pointing the way. (Dated by historical detail on reverse, Pius IX at Gaeta.)
	Date:[November 1848]	Extent:1 p

A35/187	Scope and Content:Three press cuttings from The Historic Times, with various articles on Californian gold mining, "The deluders and the deluded of Ireland", and Irish emigration. Enclosing copy [woodcut] also featured in the paper, depicting a scene of [shipwreck], "The convict Mitchel in the island of Bermuda".
	Date:19 January-2 March 1849	Extent:4 items

A35/188	Scope and Content:Black and white photograph of [painting/ etching] of Edward Hayes, Dublin, 6th Dragoon Guards. Figure standing in full regalia, holding helmet in the right hand and resting left on hilt of [sword], looking to the left of centre. (Information through original inscription on the item, and caption by G.A.Hayes-McCoy.)
	Date:1852	Extent:304 x 252 mm

A35/189	Scope and Content:Typescript copy of article from Nation (vol.XVI no.31 p.485), with articles entitled "Gavazzi in Galway" and "Great excitement and outbreak".
	Date:2 April 1859	Extent:1 p

A35/190	Scope and Content:Copies of three documents of 1861/1862 regarding the career of Captain Myles Keogh.
	Date:1861-1862	Extent:4 pp

A35/191	Scope and Content:Copy of The manual and firing exercises for the Snider artillery carbine, published by the Horse Guards, War Office. (With handwritten names R.Seymour Stewart, 1873, and [illegible], 1931.)
	Date:1871	Extent:56 pp

A35/192	Scope and Content:Copy of Reports of proceedings at the Special Commissions (1867) for the county and city of Cork and the county and city of Limerick in cases of high treason and treason-felony...at the summer assizes of the same year for the counties of Clare and Galway (Dublin 1871). With some notes by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy] indexing the occurrence in the book of flags, parts of clothing, arms - e.g. "Fenians have green pouches p.697".
	Date:1871	Extent:886 pp

A35/193	Scope and Content:Authenticated copy "conditional order for sale" regarding land held by John Vize and Lady Catherine Anne O'Donnell. Certain lands in County Clare are to be sold to pay debts due to the Plaintiffs Scottish Union and National Insurance Company.
	Date:January 1884	Extent:3 pp

A35/194	Scope and Content:Handwritten transcription of early modern text, marked "Sp.63 vol.64 no.23", incipit "it is further to be considered that her [Mates] gallowglas whoo are an anncient nation of the Scotisshe Irishe of the race and surname called Clandonells...".
	Date: undated	Extent:5 pp

	7.2 Material on Galway
	Date:1838-1966	Extent:12

A35/195	Scope and Content:Transcript of a statement by "LC" [ ] from 1838 relating to the state of preservation of Warden Bodkin, the last Roman Catholic Warden of the Church of St. Nicholas. (Copied from another copy held by F.Bailey, Eyre Square, by Marguerite Hayes-McCoy.)
	Date:1838 (1940)	Extent:5 pp

A35/196	Scope and Content:File of letters from T.P.O'Connor, House of Commons, London, and Arthur Lynch, London, to Mr.Hayes-McCoy, regarding Galway constituency matters.
	Date:14 June 1880-2 August 1892	Extent:3 items

A35/197	Scope and Content:Copy of D.Travers & M.J.Tighe (eds) The Gailliv [an illustrated history of the ancient city of Galway (Galway, 1901). Covers and introduction missing.
	Date:[1901]	Extent:116 pp

A35/198	Scope and Content:Copy of the Illustrated and descriptive souvenir of Galway City (Galway 1915), published by the Forthill Bazaar Committee. With black and white photographs of the city, mostly buildings and topographic features, complemented by short précis (no authors named). Also containing c.30 pages of advertisements "of reliable houses where first-class goods may be had at reasonable prices" including T.Dillon & Sons (jewellers), Campbell & Sons (flour merchants), Frank McDonagh & Co.(drapers).
	Date:1915	Extent:75 pp

A35/199	Scope and Content:File of copies of The Western Express- subtitle "Éire saor Gaedhealach atá uainn". One item (6 December) bears note from "M", and marks out an article on visitors to Ireland such as the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
	Date:21 November - 27 December 1930	Extent:7 items

A35/200	Scope and Content:Copies of the UCG Annual, hardbound.
	Date:1929/30-1934/35	Extent:c.520 pp

A35/201	Scope and Content:Bound copies of volumes 1-4 of The Galway Reader, ed.S.J. Magennis, with a dedication by the editor to "my friend Hayes-McCoy". Enclosing holograph letter from Patrick K.Egan, Ballinasloe, County Galway, to Gerry (G.A.Hayes-McCoy), listing volumes of The Galway Reader as published, pointing to gap in National Library set. [This is a complete set of the volumes published.]
	Date:1948-1954	Extent:5 items

A35/202	Scope and Content:Copy of An Beac (vol.1 no.1), U.C.G. Student paper.
	Date:December 1951	Extent:4 pp

A35/203	Scope and Content:Printed pamphlet by Colm Ó Lochlainn (ed) The fishery at Casla, Conamara - its history and records 1684-1956 (Dublin 1957). With handwritten signature of editor.
	Date:1957	Extent:30 pp

A35/204	Scope and Content:Black and white aerial photographs by [ ] of Galway city, roughly circumscribed by the Claddagh, Lenaboy, Letteragh, Jordan's Island, and Townparks; one view further northwest (Parknagopple), one further east (Renmore, Wellpark). (Dated by caption on envelope.)
	Date:[1962]	Extent:6 items

A35/205	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Connacht Sentinel with an editorial entitled "City square", and an artist's impression of Eyre Square as planned by Bord Fáilte.
	Date:13 November 1962	Extent:2 pp

A35/206	Scope and Content:Printed coloured drawing by [ ] entitled "David and Goliath - design for the Connaught Rangers' Memorial Window, Galway Cathedral -1966".
	Date:[1966]	Extent:1 p

	7.3 Other printed material
	Date:1881-1976	Extent:24

A35/207	Scope and Content:Reproduction of Claude-Oscar Monet's [Lavacourt under snow, 1881], belonging to the Lane Bequest.
	Date:undated [1881]	Extent:310 mm x 236 mm

A35/208	Scope and Content:Handwritten excerpts from Douglas Hyde Literary history of Ireland [Dublin 1890], with verse regarding Manannán, giving page numbers.
	Date:undated [1890]	Extent:4 pp

A35/209	Scope and Content:Printed brochure entitled "A brief bibliography of Irish history".
	Date: [post-1910]	Extent:14 pp

A35/210	Scope and Content:Black-and-white photographs of two maps and two plates from [Attilio] Vigevano's book La fine dell'esercito pontificio [Rome 1920], comprising maps 4 and 6, plates 31 and 37.(Pencilled title on reverse "R.G.Storia III 1628".)
	Date:undated (1920)	Extent:4 items

A35/211	Scope and Content:Copy of Colonel Charles Francis Bates Custer's Indian battles (New York [1936]).
	Date: [1936]	Extent:40 pp

A35/212	Scope and Content: Press cutting from The Irish Press by "Roddy the Rover" (Aodh de Blacam) from the column "Seen, heard and noted", commenting on wider implications of article by G.A.Hayes-McCoy in the Galway Archaeological Journal on the Battle of Aughrim.
	Date:26 November 1942	Extent:1 p

A35/213	Scope and Content:Offprint of article by J.G.Mann "A late medieval sword from Ireland" from The Antiquaries Journal vol.24 nos.3, 4 (1944) 94-99. With handwritten compliments. Enclosing five images mounted on card, comprising three photographs (two in the article) and two cuttings from the Journal; captions by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy].
	Date:July-October 1944	Extent:6 items

A35/214	Scope and Content:File of memoranda by Colonel Anthony T.Lawlor, Director of Cavalry, in preparation for a reconnaissance visit of the Boyne battlefield with Sir Charles Petrie, in 1947.
	Date:1947	Extent:2 items

A35/215	Scope and Content:Printed souvenir programme for the Military Tattoo commemorating the Battle of Ross, New Ross, County Wexford 5-6 June, including a historical commentary by Patrick Donovan. With handwritten dedication by "M.K." [ ].
	Date:June 1948	Extent:36 pp

A35/216	Scope and Content:Offprint of article by William O'Sullivan "The earliest Irish coinage" from the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland [no.79, 1949] 1-47. With handwritten dedication by author to Marguerite Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:4 November [1949]	Extent:49 pp

A35/217	Scope and Content:Printed pamphlet News Bulletin no.11 of the Anti-Partition of Ireland League, Scottish Council.
	Date:March 1951	Extent:4 pp

A35/218	Scope and Content:Printed advertisement for E.W.Gladstone The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795-1945 (Manchester [1953]).
	Date:[1953]	Extent:4 pp

A35/219	Scope and Content:Press cutting from Amárach - guth na Gaeltachta, with the text of Amhrán Máirtín Mhóir (14 verses). [in Irish]
	Date:13 March 1958	Extent:1 p

A35/220	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Times of a letter by "P.B.O'D" responding to Frank O’Connor’s view that the Irish Censor has ensured that the Irish have no access to their own literature.
	Date:19 December 1961	Extent:1 p

A35/221	Scope and Content:Copies of An tÓglach (ed.Major General Piaras Beaslaí), vol.1 nos.2-5.
	Date:Summer 1961 - Summer 1962	Extent:4 items

A35/222	Scope and Content: Press cutting from The Irish Press by Cathal O'Shannon entitled "Flutter among the historians", commenting on Hayes-McCoy's "recent criticism of the Irish history textbooks in our schools". Concurring with this, and pointing to a series of monographs published by the Dundalgan Press that set parametres for good history writing.
	Date:9 February 1962	Extent:1 p

A35/223	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Independent by M.J.Costello entitled "The Irish in the American Civil War - Sheridan, the greatest soldier of them all".
	Date:21 September 1963	Extent:1 p

A35/224	Scope and Content:Erin's Hope: File of postcard and photographs with caption by [G.A.Hayes-McCoy], having collected information from Denis J.Murray, Dundalk, about Erin's Hope and her pilot boat and skippers. Including 1912- photograph of crewman of pilot boat Paddy Gaughran, Kilcar, County Donegal; and reproduction of painting by Bernard McDonagh of Erin's Hope in Sligo Bay.
	Date:1964/1965	Extent:3 items

A35/225	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Independent of photograph and short article on the presentation of new colours to the Second Brigade, Eastern Command, noting that the flag was designed by G.A. Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:6 April 1966	Extent:1 p

A35/226	Scope and Content:Press cutting from The Irish Times of photograph of the 1916 Commemoration at Arbour Hill, Dublin.
	Date:25 April 1966	Extent:1 p

A35/227	Scope and Content:Offprint of article by Florence O'Donoghue "The failure of the German arms landing at Easter 1916" from the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society vol.lxxi (1966) 49-61. With handwritten dedication to Hayes-McCoy.
	Date:March 1967	Extent:15 pp

A35/228	Scope and Content:Copy of Michael Gassman Czechoslovakia- death of a dream (private publication, London). (Newspaper tabloid format.)
	Date:August 1968	Extent:24 pp

A35/229	Scope and Content:Copies of three books, identified as gifts made by Marion Stokes, in 1916 Cumann na mBan member at Enniscorthy Garrison, to G.A.Hayes-McCoy. Comprising Philip Fitzgerald A narrative of the proceedings of the Confederates of '48 (Dublin 1868); Padric (sic) Gregory (ed) The poems of John Francis MacEntee (Dublin 1917); P.J.McCall Selected ballads and poems (Wexford 1955). Two books are inscribed by Hayes-McCoy as received in 1972 and 1975 - one with Stokes's signature of 1956. [Marion Stokes was cousin to Mary Margaret Hayes-McCoy, née O’Connor.]
	Date:1956-1975	Extent:4 items

A35/230	Scope and Content:Copy of Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society vol.35, including an obituary for G.A. Hayes-McCoy by Nicholas Canny.
	Date:1976	Extent:168 pp