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Consists of drafts, notes, proofs, and source materials for McCarthy's poetry and novels, as well as for his nonfiction writings and play and film treatments. Of note are his extensive poetry workbooks that contain early drafts of many of his published poems.
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Consists of McCarthy's personal journals, diaries, and planners spanning five decades. There is an extensive run of personal journals, which McCarthy labeled as his "notebooks" and kept by year from 1982 through 2010. In these notebooks, he wrote detailed entries about his own thoughts and opinions on literary, political, and personal topics, as well as pasted or tucked in various invitations, ephemera, and photographs, which are often accompanied by his captions. His writings are largely literary in nature and concern reactions to his own poetry and the poetry of others, as well as happenings in the Irish literary scene. While there are occasional drafts of poems enclosed, McCarthy kept most of his poetry drafts in a separate set of poetry workbooks, which are included in the Writings. These notebooks end in 2010, which is around the time that McCarthy began using his personal Facebook page for similar content in a digital format. In addition to the notebooks, there is also a run of pocket diaries that spans from 1972 through 2007, which were used as daily planners and contain more abbreviated notes.
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Consists of business and personal correspondence with poets, writers, editors, and publishers such as Molly Keane, Sally Phipps, Dervla Murphy, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Jennifer Johnston, Terence de Vere White, Geraldine Kennedy, Carlo Gebler, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Padraic Fiacc, Gerald Dawe, Medbh McGuckian, John Montague, Robert Greacen, Desmond O'Grady, Dennis O'Driscoll, Seán Dunne, Theo Dorgan, William Wall (Liam deBhal), Patrick Galvin, Joan McBreen, Harry Clifton, Paul Durcan, Peter Fallon, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Gerard Smyth, Paula Meehan, Paul Engle, August Kleinzahler, and Peter Jay; as well as politicians, public figures, and scholars including Lady Clementine Beit of Russborough House, Sir Adrian FitzGerald, Princess Grace de Monaco, Brigadier D.H. FitzGerald, the Countess Michalowski, Sir Richard Keane, W.E.D. Allen, Michael D. Higgins, William V. Shannon, Eugene J. McCarthy, Gerald Y. Goldberg, and John Bernstein. McCarthy's correspondence from the 1970s and 1980s, in particular, contains a number of letters from other emerging Irish poets of the time. While some correspondents have been indicated at the file-level, researchers should note that correspondence from the same person may be found in multiple folders.