1 Correspondence
	Scope and Content:These are items of correspondence from John and Madeline McGahern to Niall and Phil Walsh.
	Date:1971-2007	Extent:100 items

P102/1	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John McGahern, Cleggan, County Galway, to Niall [Walsh], hoping to see them there before next September.
	Date:18 May 1971	Extent:1 p

P102/2	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Cleggan, County Galway, to Niall [Walsh], inviting him and the family; instructions to find it. Informing him that his marriage ended 2 and a half years ago, and that he remarried.
	Date:26 May 1971	Extent:1 p

P102/3	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Cleggan, County Galway, to Niall [Walsh], making arrangements for meeting again. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:12 June 1971	Extent:2 items

P102/4	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Cleggan [County Galway], to Niall [Walsh], agreeing to Saturday and asking them to come for lunch; Mary Hutchinson came last night.
	Date:18 August 1971	Extent:1 p

P102/5	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from Madeline [McGahern], [ ], to Niall [Walsh], in thanks for the book and for their company. They move into the London House on 1 October; inviting them.
	Date:21 September [1971]	Extent:1 p

P102/6	Scope and Content:Printed bill with handwritten insertions from the Prince Albert Hotel, 5 Rue Saint-Hyacinthe, Paris, for overnight stays by "Walsh".
	Date:26 September - [4] October 1971	Extent:1 p

P102/7	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], 27 Blomfield Road, London (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, on their living conditions in London; references to their travels, and his teaching; Ligne de Fond comes out in November. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:20 October 1971	Extent:2 items

P102/8	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Blomfield Road, London, to Niall [Walsh]; referring to their impending visit. Stating that the Evening Herald "has gone a little crazy and is replicating a story of mine from the London Magazine". Not looking forward to the US (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:3 December 1971	Extent:2 items

P102/9	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], London, to Phil and Niall [Walsh], stating they have missed them since they left.
	Date:14 December 1971	Extent:1 p

P102/10	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern] [ ], to Niall [Walsh], advising him he has written to Pierre Leyris, and also to Robert Rothchild (the Belgian Ambassador) in Paris, on his behalf, who both expect him to make contact. Looking forward to seeing them in London, giving their address in 27 Blomfield Road.
	Date:[1971]	Extent:1 p

P102/11	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Keem Road [Achill Island, County Mayo], to Niall [Walsh], in thanks for his medical advice; further alluding to certain "pages" good to visit in London. Enclosing handwritten directions for a sojourn in London; laying out a walk through central London from Bank underground station; additionally mentioning a Victoria and Albert Museum branch and other favourite places.
	Date:[1971 or 1972]	Extent:3 pp

P102/12	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (US), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, delighted with their phone call. About his whereabouts: "it depresses me already, even more than the last time, this morality of success, bright hopefuls of all ages or bewildered hopefuls of later age searching for the absent next move. I suppose it works though, it is their phrase." Determinded to let nothing stop his work. "The carrot is: if you're a nice fellow they may have you back." (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:6 January 1972	Extent:2 items

P102/13	Scope and Content:Holograph postcard from John [McGahern], Paris, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, in thanks for their great kindness last week. He will be filming until December. [Image of Notre Dame and Ile St.Louis.]
	Date:19 January 1972	Extent:1 p

P102/14	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (US), to Niall [Walsh, Ballinasloe]. He will be glad when they leave in two months' time; the teaching leaves little room for his own work and life. Describing the abyss between the new and old generation among the Boston Jesuits at whose university he gave a lecture: "young Jesuits all swingers, dress closer to Carnaby Street than the round collars of my youth..." Weighing social and moral perceptions of self in the US by comparison to Ireland; "I doubt if there ever was any sense of religion in this country, as we came to know it..." Television and press are full of the north: "Brian Friel has suggested that Nero and his fiddle should be hired for a long Irish season". References to nature; practical hints for [acquiring property].
	Date:25 March 1972	Extent:2 pp

P102/15	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (US), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. They are more keen on Leitrim now that the Walshes have land nearby. Asking whether they would come to Paris rather than London. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:27 March 1972	Extent:2 items

P102/16	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (US), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Asking whether they may meet in London in June; they will be in Paris afterwards. Observing "the students have started to panic. Their papers will be no easy wading." (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:2 May 1972	Extent:2 items

P102/17	Scope and Content:Holograph postcard from Madeline [McGahern], London, to Niall and Mrs.Walsh, Ballinasloe, with details of their stay in London, plans for taking possession of the Paris flat in July.
	Date:10 [June] 1972	Extent:1 p

P102/18	Scope and Content:Holograph postcard from Madeline [McGahern], Rue Christine, Paris, to Niall and Phil Walsh, Ballinasloe, referring to the safe arrival of the package; the building works, and remarking "I stare at the Leitrim map stolidly". [Image of Île St.Louis]
	Date:2 December 1972	Extent:1 p

P102/19	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Rue Christine, Paris, to Niall and Phil, Ballinasloe. Reference to their impending wedding in January or February. Asking whether they could move to Achill in April to be able to supervise work on the house. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:24 December 1972	Extent:2 items

P102/20	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Paris, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, reference to [mutual friend] Dick. Some remarks about them signing the translation papers in the town hall: "...the whole ceremony is basically about property, which is carefully obscured from young love by the ROMANCE INDUSTRY." His father had a heart attack, and all his sisters "HARED home"; beyond female drama it is hard to see reality. Looking forward to shared weekends with them on Achill. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:30 January 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/21	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Rue Christine, Paris, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe; commenting on his father's present ill health and his siblings. Their plans for going to Ireland. Thinking the Joyce film was well received. Hoping to receive the visiting professorship for Boston from January, which would be financially very reassuring; worrying about Nixon's cutbacks on education however. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:23 February 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/22	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], London, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, about the arrangements for their return to Ireland via Liverpool. Adding that in Leitrim the ploughing has begun. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:7 March 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/23	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], [London], to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, postponing their meeting, stating he is "sick of the social rounds". (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:11 March 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/24	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Dooagh [Achill Island, County Mayo], to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, stating their great gratitude for using the house; housekeeping points. Reference to rowing and fishing yesterday - "but the bonhommie- in spite of the best will in the world- was even more crushing than the rowing". (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:20 March 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/25	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], Gob a'choire, County Mayo, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, relating conversation with a man called O'Malley about a piece of bog land, potentially a prize site. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:26 March 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/26	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (4 pp) from Madeline McGahern [Achill Island, County Mayo], to Phil Walsh, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in thanks for the Bewley's coffee. They will visit "the poet Murphy" in Cleggan; arrangements for leaving them the house in good order. Relating that a discussion in O'Malley's tackled the question "what is man?", and that a local woman had an early morning fight on main street, arousing comment from the elders. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:"Monday" [April 1973]	Extent:2 items

P102/27	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (3 pp) from Madeline [McGahern], [Dooagh, County Mayo], to Phil Walsh, Ballinasloe, personal comments; BBC having visited; local colour; work on the house. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:16 May [1973]	Extent:2 items

P102/28	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Keen Road [ ], to Niall [Walsh]; arrangements to pay telephone bill. News of the planned building work on the house in Leitrim. Reference to "Capon woman"; to the television play he just finished; his fly-fishing.
	Date:21 May 1973	Extent:1 p

P102/29	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Keen Road [County Mayo], to Niall [Walsh], having had local information about Walsh's cottage and the land and rights attached. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:3 June 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/30	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], London, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Their social life is busy since their presence in London was discovered; points of gossip about Charles who is about to become chairman of Faber. He has cut down the part of the woman in the novel which he is handing in tomorrow; Faber's now employ a copy editor. Madeline's prospective job; his probable Arts Council award. Regretting The Book and Flogger public house closing down; regretting also not seeing them for some time. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:4 November 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/31	Scope and Content:Typescript letter signed Madeline [McGahern], [Walthamstow postmark], to Niall and Mrs.Walsh, Ballinasloe. About small errands; their satisfactory living arrangements; John's visiting friends and enemies; her securing a job at the Observer. Points about John's sisters - "there is a special extravaganza coming up around the gout pills and we watch with interest." Remarks about Ian [Hamilton] who "seems to be more at the center of power than ever"; the enlargement of The Review which will be "the literary magazine of the period" and will have extracts from The Leavetaking; possible Arts Council award for John. Her plans for a visit to Paris. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:8 November 1973 (postmark)	Extent:2 items

P102/32	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Forest Glade, London, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Comments on the Walsh's house, Madeline's work and citizenship; his health. He will need to teach - "It'll probably quickly restore to me the sense of the luxury it is to be free to do the work I loathe and I suppose love". Hosting Francie from Clifden. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:21 November 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/33	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], London, to Niall [Walsh], enclosing advertisement for The New Review, a new literary monthly, to include fiction by John McGahern and others. Trouble with a neighbour [in Leitrim]; references to his having almost finished a novella; life in London.
	Date:14 December 1973	Extent:2 items

P102/34	Scope and Content:Holograph postcard from Madeline [McGahern], Paris, to Niall and Phil Walsh, Ballinasloe; they suffer from food poisoning.
	Date:[December 1973]	Extent:1 p

P102/35	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (3 pp) from John [McGahern], London, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, with family news and their recent stay in Paris; the Walsh's own house. He finished a long story and works on something new; not sure whether to go teaching or not. Some unfavourable remarks about Ballinamore. A confirmation came from the Arts Council for £1,000. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:2 January 1974	Extent:2 items

P102/36	Scope and Content:Typescript letter signed Madeline [McGahern], The Observer, London (England), to Phil and Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. With family news regarding her father; the satisfactory arrangements with John's father and sisters; a sketch of her secretarial work for five reporters; John's great form and prolific writing; their social lives, meeting Donald Gordon, Ian Hamilton - "the magazine will cause quite a stir". News from their Leitrim house; planning to be there for Easter. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:25 January 1974	Extent:2 items

P102/37	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], London, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, in thanks for their hospitality, and the blood test. They are going home at the end of the month; he will camp [in the old house] even if his uncle has done nothing there. Reference to a party for Ian's venture. All work since The Leavetaking has been bought and had he stayed in teaching he would have earned less: "it doesn't allay the guilt, neither would the other: our minds must have come out of a desperate inheritance". (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:8 April 1974	Extent:2 items

P102/38	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], London, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, about their preparations for [going to the US]. "Finito" has been published in Stubbs. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:11 April 1974	Extent:2 items

P102/39	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Aughaboeneil, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh, Ballinasloe], describing state of affairs with the bulding work; inviting them. They saw the Walshes' house and are impressed.
	Date:10 May 1974	Extent:2 pp

P102/40	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to [Niall Walsh], inviting him and his wife to come and meet the architect, after looking the house over.
	Date:10 August 1974	Extent:1 p

P102/41	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, details of their whereabouts; Madeline will join him this week; a local anecdote about locals painting their family gravestones with car oil. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:29 September 1974	Extent:2 items

P102/42	Scope and Content:Typescript letter signed Madeline [McGahern], "The Observer", London, England, to Phil and Niall [Walsh], sending them the Faber catalogue. Mentioning John checking The Leavetaking for the last time, and describing her work, doing secretarial work for a pool of reporters.
	Date:17 November [1974]	Extent:1 p

P102/43	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from Madeline [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Phil and Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, hoping they will meet in the New Year; praising Newcastle and the apartment. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:21 December 1974	Extent:2 items

P102/44	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to Niall [Walsh]. Relating that there is "a certain frost on all things Irish" in the University because of Murphy's "filching" the first wife of a professor of Philosophy; varying stories; other observations concerning Murphy. His book is out on 6 January; sceptical of its beeing the critics' choice of the week, but delighted he received the Society of Authors' Award for it unexpectedly. Having gone past a critical point with his new novel. Inviting them over; plans for shared travel; recommending Newcastle as a destination.
	Date:26 December 1974	Extent:2 items

P102/45	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Remarks on his "bloody trade", engendered by the recent four [reviews]; De Vere White dismisses him as lacking talent and basing his success on the ban, and on being sacked from work. News of Madeline; the house; mutual friend Emmett; Murphy. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:4 January 1975	Extent:2 items

P102/46	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], to Niall [Walsh], enclosing photocopies of covering letter and enclosures, from Faber & Faber Publishers, London, to John McGahern, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England), with eight reviews of The Leavetaking, from papers including The Listener, Publisher's Weekly, The Times, The Guardian, New Fiction Society. The publishers congratulate him, saying that the Irish Times article could do nothing but good where sales are concerned. Further commenting on both the covering letter, and the American segment.
	Date:1-22 January 1975	Extent:2 items

P102/47	Scope and Content:Photocopy of press cutting from the Houston Post by Tanner Hunt, entitled "A son's story", being a review of The leavetaking by John McGahern.
	Date:2 February 1975	Extent:1 p

P102/48	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], University of Newcastle upon Tyne, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Remarks about recent praise received; inviting him and Phil to stay [in Leitrim] for Easter; expecting scholarly visitor.
	Date:27 February 1975	Extent:2 items

P102/49	Scope and Content:Press cutting from the National Observer by Bruce Cook, entitled "The Irish: pugnacious, powerless, and bored", reviewing Thomas J.O'Hanlon's The Irish, and commenting on John McGahern's The leavetaking, and Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth.
	Date:1 March 1975	Extent:1 p

P102/50	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, commiserating on the "L.C.", asking what compensation they will give them; remarks about their own place in Aughaboneil. His lecturing engagements in Belfast and Coleraine. He met Charles Monteith; The Leavetaking sells well and will be published in the Netherlands; brief remarks about the land and places they have visited, singling out Durham. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:21 April 1975	Extent:2 items

P102/51	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, in thanks for hospitality, and offering their Paris flat for use during the summer. He will go to the Society of Authors' "do" in July; referring to a good review of "the novel" in The Encounter. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:6 June 1975	Extent:2 items

P102/52	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Department of English, Durham, England, to Niall Walsh, Achill, County Mayo, confirming the dates in August when they will have the flat; their own travel plans; some hints about living in Paris and encouraging them to call "Pops" [his father-in-law]. Adding that they will go to America for five months from January 1977. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:26 [June] 1975	Extent:2 items

P102/53	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from Madeline [McGahern], University of Durham, Department of English, England, to Phil and Niall [Walsh]arranging for their stay in the Parisian flat. With recommendations and practical tips, also regarding "the French": "The only thing to do is fire away (and) bully back".
	Date:'Thursday' [summer 1975]	Extent:4 pp

P102/54	Scope and Content:Handwritten notes (8pp) by [Madeline] McGahern, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Drs P. and N. Walsh, Ballinasloe, with private tips for visiting Paris, including hand-drawn maps, a recipe. stating also that Mary Hutchinson hopes to see them in London. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:7 August 1975	Extent:3 items

P102/55	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne, to Niall [Walsh], much appreciating his and Phil's telephone calls. Not looking forward to going to Paris; having business with a lawyer. Commenting on DeV who "by now, must be drinking cold tea with all his true blues up in Flaitheas na Naomh. I'm sure you've had your fill of the 'Chief' all last - and this – week". Giving Dublin number of Tom Jordan if they need help with the garden; telephone number for them in Paris.
	Date:4 September 1975	Extent:2 items

P102/56	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (3 pp) from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Details about their Paris property which they are letting for now. Meeting Madeline 's stepmother. Relating at length the way his brother-in-law died while his sister out of guilt tried to nurse him at home; satirical dialogue between her and her twin (his sisters). Gossip about Charles, Lennon, and Hamilton, whom they met in London. Séamus Heaney's permanent post in Carysfort Training College; an anecdote regarding him and his neighbour who mistook him on the radio for Séamus Twomey, then on the death list of the Ulster Defence Association. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:22 September 1975	Extent:2 items

P102/57	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], University of Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, congratulations on their "new acres". Hoping to arrange their visit; he will give an address in Queen's, Belfast. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:24 October 1975	Extent:2 items

P102/58	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1p) from John [McGahern], Newcastle- upon-Tyne, to Niall P. Walsh, Ballinasloe. Reference to coming over for the trees; hoping the cattle are thriving. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:15 February 1976	Extent:2 items

P102/59	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], University of Newcastle upon Tyne to Niall and Phil Walsh, Ballinasloe, referring to an apartment they could rent for 2 months. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:23 March 1976	Extent:2 items

P102/60	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], University of Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, arranging for Walsh to take their Paris flat in June. Finishing a book of stories and finding it hard going.
	Date:1 April 1976	Extent:2 items

P102/61	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Newcastle upon Tyne (England), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, with their plans for moving to Ireland. Some critical remarks about the poet Murphy (quoting Keats) who called and excelled himself. Enclosing press cutting from [ ], with an article entitled "Cafés de Paris" based on The Good Food Guide 1976. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:1-4 May 1976	Extent:3 items

P102/62	Scope and Content:Holograph postcard from Madeline [McGahern], Newcastle on Tyne, to Drs N. and P Walsh, Ballinasloe, describing herself "eased gently toward the rigours of Leitrim".
	Date:8 June 1976	Extent:1 p

P102/63	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Achill Island, County Mayo. Reference to housekeeping and timber. Very uncomfortable visit from Dick and Ursula. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:15 June 1976	Extent:2 items

P102/64	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, to Niall P Walsh, Ballinasloe, in thanks for note and Hogan's enclosure. Reference to obtaining cartridges. Difficulty of getting hold of a [builder]. Hoping he can do a blood test for him some time. Enclosing letter from Madeline, in thanks for their account of the travelogue from France; their own plans. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:19 October 1976	Extent:3 items

P102/65	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], Augaboneil [County Leitrim, but Dublin postmark], to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, with some instructions on cutting timber [near the house in Leitrim]; giving name of the forestry man. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:26 December 1976	Extent:2 items

P102/66	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (US), to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. He tries working in the mornings; teaching takes its toll and students are "quite different. Self expression is out. Explanatory writing is in...". Some humorous remarks about Murphy, who called with his fiancée and who will be at Inishbofin Arts Week. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:18 February 1977	Extent:2 items

P102/67	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh], having come home for his father's funeral - he died of his heart, and the sisters had apparently dramatised a case to some degree. Remarks about their farming activities; timber for Walsh to take. Asking about the Ballinasloe house. Referring to an enclosure sent by Walsh with a less than truthful pen picture of Mary Hutchinson. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:10 July 1977	Extent:2 items

P102/68	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, in thanks for good wishes for the publication on Monday - following experience with the novel he is not even apprehensive anymore. Arrangements for their visit; referring to their own home refurbishment. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:10 June 1978	Extent:2 items

P102/69	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from Madeline [McGahern], to Phil and Niall [Walsh], asking for help in a medical matter. In thanks for the roast and port.
	Date:13 July [1970s]	Extent:1 p

P102/70	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from Madeline [McGahern], [ ] to Phil and Niall [Walsh], in thanks for the pheasants hunted and sent by them. They never enjoyed London more. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:"Sunday" [1970s]	Extent:2 items

P102/71	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Cleggan (County Galway), to Niall [Walsh] looking forward to seeing them on Saturday.
	Date:"Wednesday" [1970s]	Extent:1 p

P102/72	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], University of Dublin, Department of Modern English, to Niall [Walsh], about his room at UCD, his journeys to Leitrim to look after livestock, his uncle dying in Beaumont [Hospital]: "he'll be the last of that generation".
	Date:[1970s]	Extent:1 p

P102/73	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, about a new post at Trinity that will allow him rooms in the college. He will commute a fair bit between the two places; he has kept some livestock. Appreciating his words about The Shoot; director and others were easy to work with.
	Date:9 December 1987	Extent:2 items

P102/74	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Phil and Niall [Walsh]. In reference to the Booker evening; it was hard although they did not expect to win; it made an extraordinary difference to the sales.
	Date:26 October 1990	Extent:1 p

P102/75	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh], having missed him at the Mater, and enclosing a document he meant to give him [not extant]; remembering a shared incident. Wishing him good luck with the treatment; encouraging him. Hoping to see them. He is just returning "from this foolish conference in Dublin".
	Date:21 June 1991	Extent:2 pp

P102/76	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Phil and Niall [Walsh], in thanks for the meal. Referring to John Fortune in connection to a television script; casting difficulties at The Abbey. Possibility of [Landon's] daughter going to Galway for a university year.
	Date:28 July 1991	Extent:2 pp

P102/77	Scope and Content:Holograph card from John [McGahern], Foxfield, to Niall [Walsh], with good wishes after his return, and hoping to meet and celebrate at around Christmas - he will teach in the States during the Fall term. [Dating by context.]
	Date:2 August [1991]	Extent:2 pp

P102/78	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Colgate University, Hamilton, New York [US], to Niall and Pat Walsh, Ballinasloe. Referring to a play which he thought had been sunk when he left; glad the controversy turned it around and that despite problems with Hynes, ranks closed. He will be home for Christmas. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:17 December 1991	Extent:2 items

P102/79	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall and Phil [Walsh]. Their dealings with sheep and cattle were welcome changes from the Abbey and transatlantic travel. Collected Stories are out in October; in a fortnight he has to give a talk about the Catholic Church. His recent stay at the Mater; anecdote involving a Sister of Mercy.
	Date:20 April 1992	Extent:2 pp

P102/80	Scope and Content:Holograph postcard from John McGahern, St.Germain-des- Prés [France], to Dr N.P.Walsh, Ballinasloe, referring to an evening with Paddy Hogan who remembered him; advising him of their arrival in Galway.
	Date:[2 July] 1992	Extent:1 p

P102/81	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Offering his and Madeline's sympathy over the loss of his mother, whom they met.
	Date:4 December 1992	Extent:1 p

P102/82	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh], sending enclosure which came originally from Linda [ ] (not extant). Teaching in U.C.G.; going to New York for a week. A New York Times reporter interviewed him over the telephone: "He went on and on as to why there was so little happiness in my work. I don't see large stacks of it around..."
	Date:15 February 1993	Extent:1 p

P102/83	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh]. Reference to their travelling plans to France and the United States; hoping to see them.
	Date:23 September 1993	Extent:1 p

P102/84	Scope and Content:Holograph postcard from Madeline [McGahern], Rome, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe, with holiday commentary, John having finished "his chores".
	Date:16 April 1994	Extent:1 p

P102/85	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh]. Offering sympathy for the death of Dick [ ], having already expressed the same to Oonagh; they last saw him in August. Remarks about their generation being near the end now - "I have always felt and feel it even more now that a lot of life is luck". Brief comments on Ian [ ] whose book "Money" he thought very fine.
	Date:22 January 2002	Extent:2 pp

P102/86	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh], enclosing a document as promised (not extant). Comments on his chemotherapy. Pleased with the unexpected fact that Knopf had to reprint [his work] three times in the last month.
	Date:17 May 2002	Extent:1 p

P102/87	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. In response to his letter and commentary on the article; not having read Being and Time, he still finds his comments make sense and is reminded of Homer's world. Comments on his chemotherapy, and public commitments. Hoping Niall is well in Budapest. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:27 May 2002	Extent:2 items

P102/88	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Referring to meeting in Boyle, and their companions there. His treatment - "unpleasant but very tolerable". His plans for travelling, including Paris and Toronto. (Envelope establishes details.)
	Date:4 August 2002	Extent:2 items

P102/89	Scope and Content:Restricted document. Not available for consultation.
	Date:	Extent:

P102/90	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (1 p) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Some remarks about his forthcoming book, and a journey to Santa Fé in April. His treatment at the Mater. Hoping to meet soon. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:10 January 2004	Extent:2 items

P102/91	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. References to his and Madeline's journey and reading tour in Japan. Details of his new treatment; wary of it. Asking him to keep "these adventures" quiet. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:22 November 2004	Extent:2 items

P102/92	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to [Niall Walsh]. Commenting on the television programme which Niall liked, and Madeline found well put together, but which he was disappointed with in that the footage from Japan remained in it. On his second course of treatment. When he began the memories he did not expect to be able to finish the work - "in some mysterious ways these years have been more [rich] and full than any others"; the disease is something in the background - "maybe it is just the old body's plenitude". Enclosing [a text] that appeared at Christmas.
	Date:20 January 2005	Extent:2 pp

P102/93	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Arranging to meet; suggesting his attending a reception at opening a new Irish Studies Centre at Galway university. His new treatment; family news. (Envelope establishes detail.)
	Date:4 August 2005	Extent:2 items

P102/94	Scope and Content:Holograph letter (2 pp) from John [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall Walsh, Ballinasloe. Further arrangement to meet at NUIG. His treatment. Publicity has become a "small monster", inviting him to a launch at Trinity. News about Madeline. (Envelope establishes details.)
	Date:8 September 2005	Extent:2 items

P102/95	Scope and Content:Holograph card from Madeline [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh], in reply to his letter of sympathy on [John's death]. Speaking of her husband's marvellous ability to balance the public and the private, staying generous and focussed "without indulgence or vanity".
	Date:1 May 2006	Extent:2 pp

P102/96	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from Madeline [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh]. Referring to impending work on the house. She has not suffered so much from grief because of the three years' preparation the two had before John's death. Local news.
	Date:16 January 2007	Extent:2 pp

P102/97	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from Madeline [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh]. Enclosing an article [not extant]; referring to works done on the house; inviting him and [Carina]. [Dating by context.]
	Date:7 June [2007]	Extent:1 p

P102/98	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from Madeline [McGahern], Foxfield, County Leitrim, to Niall [Walsh]. Sending him back Manhunt, commenting on it being a "racy read" with wonderful stories, and some strange references. Reference to building work; the evening with him and Corinna. [Dating by context.]
	Date:[2007]	Extent:2 pp

P102/99	Scope and Content:Handwritten memorandum by [John McGahern], regarding a certain cottage, once owned by Pat Lavelle, but without a will made for it; after him it was owned by his wife, a niece (who lived "at the Sound" [Achill]), a sister.
	Date:undated	Extent:1 p

P102/100	Scope and Content:Fragment handwritten letter from [John McGahern], 56 Ennafort Park, Raheny, Dublin, to Niall [Walsh], regretting they cannot see them in London (end missing).
	Date:"Monday" [ ]	Extent:1 p

P102/102	Scope and Content:Holograph letter from John [McGahern], London, to [Niall Walsh], in thanks; their living arrangements in London; inviting them to their rather large place in Blomfield Road. Written onto title page of draft typescript radio play "Sinclair" by John McGahern, produced by Ronald Mason with cast of Cyril Cusack and Norman Rodway. (With handwritten amendment at end. Printed for use by broadcaster Radio 3 [BBC].)
	Date:2 May 1972	Extent:2 items

	2 Drafts and publications by John McGahern
	Scope and Content:This comprises some works by John McGahern which he sent to Niall Walsh - covering letters (with the exception of P102/ 102) are not extant.
	Date:1971-1989	Extent:6 items

P102/101	Scope and Content:Copy of of John McGahern, Ligne de Fond (Paris, Mercure de France 1971) - first edition in French of Nightlines, translated by Pierre Leyris. With holograph dedication by the author to Niall and Phil Walsh, 27 Bloomfield Road, 12 December 1971. [Pages uncut]
	Date:[1971]	Extent:227 pp

P102/103	Scope and Content:Photocopy typescript draft for [first three quarters of 1974- edition of The Leavetaking by John McGahern], with a few handwritten corrections. [Draft paginated 1-211; breaks off on what is p.140 of published edition (London, 1974). The book is dedicated to Niall Walsh.]
	Date:[1974]	Extent:211 pp

P102/104	Scope and Content:Photocopy typescript [last draft] of "A Slip-Up" [by John McGahern]. [Nearly identical to published version, reprinted in John McGahern, Creatures Of The Earth (London: Faber, 1992) 83-89.]
	Date:[1975]	Extent:8 pp

P102/105	Scope and Content:Photocopy [of a proof copy] of John McGahern's "All Sorts Of Impossible Things" under the heading "Encounter U126". [This short story was first published by Encounter 6, December 1975.]
	Date:[1975]	Extent:1 pp

P102/106	Scope and Content:Photocopy of essay by John McGahern, entitled An t-Oileánach, with handwritten additions, also copied, on pp. 55, 57-58. [This is the version printed in The Irish Review 6 (Spring 1989) 55-62.]
	Date:[1989]	Extent:8 pp