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Writings, 1935-2016
Consists of drafts of both individual works and full-length books and book projects by John Ennis in various stages of completion, along with proofs, poem lists, notebooks and loose notes, source materials, research, photographs, cover designs, publicity materials, reviews, correspondence, and press clippings related to Ennis's writings. While the vast majority of materials relate to his poetry, both published and unpublished, a smaller number pertain to musical works created in collaboration with composer Eric Sweeney for which Ennis composed lyrics, drafts of unpublished short stories from the 1970s, and Ennis's 1997 PhD thesis on the use of myth and archetypes in his own poetry.
Materials related to Ennis's poetry are split into three file groups: those arranged by poetry collection, those arranged by individual poem, and notebooks and loose notes containing drafts of various poems. Other materials are arranged into file groups by type of writing.
Poetry Collections, 1935-2016
"The Bolted Door", circa 1967-1976
"The Shore Dwellers", 1967-1968
Night on Hibernia: Early Drafts, undated
Night on Hibernia: Early Drafts, undated
Night on Hibernia: Drafts, undated
Dolmen Hill, 1976-1979
Dolmen Hill: Poem Drafts, undated
Dolmen Hill: Notes, undated
A Drink of Spring, 1980
"Ray Daly" Draft, undated
"Ray Daly" Corrected Draft, undated
"Ray Daly" Corrected Draft, undated
"Ray Daly" Corrected Draft, undated
"Ray Daly" Draft, undated
"Ray Daly" Revision Sheets, undated
Arboretum, 1980-1992
Arboretum: Notes and Outlines, undated
Arboretum: Early Drafts, undated
"Gan Adhmad" Draft, undated
"Gan Adhmad" Draft, undated
"A Wexford Arboretum" Draft, undated
Arboretum: Corrected Draft, undated
Arboretum: Corrected Draft, undated
Arboretum: Draft, undated
Arboretum: Press Release, circa 1990
In a Green Shade, 1977-1993
In a Green Shade: Poem Drafts, undated
In a Green Shade: Poem Drafts, undated
In a Green Shade: Poem Drafts, undated
"Decisions" Drafts, undated
"Pale Venus" Drafts, undated
Telling the Bees, 1987-2000
"The Inward Spiral" Draft, undated
"This Other Umbria" Draft, undated
"This Other Umbria" Drafts, undated
"Telling the Bees" Drafts, undated
Tráithníní, 1998-2001
Tráithníní: Notes, undated
Tráithníní: Drafts, 1999 February 11
Tráithníní: Draft, 1999 November 12
Tráithníní: Drafts, 2000 January 9
Near St. Mullins: Draft, undated
Near St. Mullins: Draft, undated
Near St. Mullins: Drafts, undated
Near St. Mullins: Drafts, undated
Goldcrest Falling, 2004-2008
Óisín's Journey Home, 2005-2007
Postponing Ásbyrgi, 2010-2013
Midlandia, 2010-2015
Midlandia: Source Materials, undated
Midlandia: Poetry Notebook, 2010
Midlandia: Poem Drafts, 2014 Summer
Midlandia: Corrected Draft, 2015
Midlandia: Publicity, 2015
Eurydice 29, 1935-2016
Eurydice 29: Source Materials, 1935-2016
Eurydice 29 / New Poems Drafts, 1998
Eurydice 29: Poem Drafts, undated
Eurydice 29: Draft, 1998 March-August
Eurydice 29: Draft, undated
Eurydice 29: Book, 2016
"The Blessed Business", 2013-2016
Individual Poems, 1969-1995
"5 Lucas Court", undated
"Above to Clowne", undated
"Account", undated
"Ad Originem", undated
"Addiction", undated
"address", undated
"Admiring Roses...", undated
"Advice to Icarus", undated
"Aengus on Aran", undated
"After the Accident", undated
"After Seoul", undated
"The Age of Mirages", undated
"Agnus Dei", undated
"Alice of Daphne", undated
"All Over", undated
"Allegro Maestoso", undated
"Amergin Revisited", undated
"Amos Gexella", undated
"Andante Moderato", undated
"Animal in Court, No. 2", undated
"Ann,", undated
"Apostate", undated
"April Fool", undated
"Aquel Mal Aire Traidor", undated
"The Arriving", undated
"Around Christmas", undated
"Ars Poetica", undated
"Ashes in the Park", undated
"At Cashel", undated
"At a prayer dream...", undated
"At Sandymant Strand", undated
"Atlantic Inlet", undated
"Avieno (Revised)", undated
"Bad Friday", undated
"The Ballad of Sam Rusnam", undated
"Ballinabracky", undated
"Bananas", undated
"Bar Woman", undated
"Of Bars and Barriers", undated
"Bay Hall", undated
"The Becalmed", undated
"Beech in Winter", undated
"Beehives, South Kilkenny", undated
"Bernard", undated
"Big Wednesday", undated
"Birth at Airmount", undated
"Black Head", 1977
"Blossoms", undated
"Blue for the Washed Up", undated
"Blue Polyclens", undated
"The Bolted Door", undated
"Boy on a Table", undated
"Break on a Bog", undated
"Bright Days", undated
"Buiochas", undated
"Bulb in the Ground", undated
"Bulldozer", undated
"Burial", undated
"By O'Hara Streams", undated
"Cage in Concert", undated
"The Cajolement", undated
"Caavaggio's Taking", undated
"Careers Expo", undated
"Carpe Diem", undated
"Cecessant Spirit", 1995
"Cemetary", undated
"Charybdis", undated
"Children", undated
"The Child's Prayer", undated
"Chorus and Drunks", undated
"Christmas", undated
"(Mrs.) Chrysanthemum", undated
"Cigarette Ash", undated
"Click", undated
"Cloch", undated
"Clouds at Evening", undated
"Comic Lynching", undated
"The Coming (Of Night)", undated
"Conditions", undated
"Consternation", undated
"Corbetstown", undated
"Country Funeral", undated
"Cousin, I visit you...", undated
"Cousins", undated
"Coynes", undated
"The Croppy Boy", undated
"Dangerous Driving", undated
"Day Trip", undated
"Days at Umbridge", undated
"The Dead Conquistadors", undated
"Death by Drowning", undated
"Death of the Whales", 1974
"Death's Eve", undated
"Deciduous", undated
"Decisions", undated
"Deirdre on Departing Alba", undated
"Deirdre's Song", undated
"Deported", undated
"Deposure", undated
"Depressions", undated
"Descending the Well", undated
"Dioses" and other poems, undated
"Dividers, Cutterbars", undated
"Dolmen Hill", undated
"Doris and Ernst", undated
"Dorthea Claire", undated
"Dream Summer", undated
"Dreams and Visions", undated
"A Drifty White", undated
"A Drink of Spring", undated
"Drive in the Afternoon", undated
"Dublin Airport", undated
"Dun Laoghaire Again", undated
"During the Storm", undated
"The Dying Generations", undated
"Early", undated
"The Early Years", undated
"Economic War", undated
"Elegy in Autumn", undated
"Emmet Ennis", undated
"Eustonwards", undated
"Exit", undated
"Extracts", undated
"Faces", undated
"The Fallen Walls", undated
"Falling Leaves", undated
"Feet", undated
"Fifth Movement", undated
"Fire", undated
"Fire in the Palm", undated
"First Day", undated
"First Day Again", undated
"Fisherstudent", undated
"The Fissured Rock", undated
"Flashes from Sinai", undated
"Flawed", undated
"The Flower Children", undated
"Footnotes on I Samuel 20", undated
"The Four Horsemen", undated
"Free Class", undated
"Freya", undated
"Friday", undated
"Frightfully tedious...", undated
"From Slieve Coillte", undated
"Full Fathom", undated
"Galaxy in White", undated
"The Garden", undated
"Gathering Ourselves", undated
"Gaze...", undated
"Get Tumble", undated
"Girl", undated
"Girl at a Match", undated
"Girl, Bar, Swan", undated
"Gloria", undated
"Goat Milking", undated
"The Golden Bird", undated
"Goldsmiths", 1994
"The Good King", undated
"Grand Union Canal", undated
"Habemus Papam", undated
"Hang-Gliders", undated
"The Harrowed Corner", undated
"Harsh in Lents", undated
"Hart Gane", undated
"Hay-Field", undated
"Hibernia", undated
"Hibiscus", undated
"The Hives", undated
"Holy Hour", undated
"Homage", undated
"Home", undated
"Huddle in the Garden", undated
"Hughes", undated
"Hydroturbines", undated
"If", undated
"In His Eyes", undated
"In Memoriam", undated
"In Memory of Jan Power", undated
"In the Trees", undated
"Incident at Drumcliff", undated
"Incubus", undated
"Indian Boy", undated
"Interim", undated
"The Irish Mind", undated
"The James", undated
"JC" and other poems, undated
"Joie de Vivre", undated
"The Journey", undated
"Journey All Day", undated
"Journey in May", undated
"Judgement Days", undated
"Kilcock", undated
"Kings Cross, Old Lady", undated
"The Knights", undated
"Knock", undated
"Knockers of Maricon", undated
"Kynie", undated
"The Lady is Protestant", undated
"Lake Evening", undated
"The Lakes", undated
"Lament", undated
"Landscape", undated
"Last Blue, Blue Hours", undated
"The Last Dinosaurs", undated
"Last Friday", undated
"Last Way", undated
"Late Autumn", undated
"A Legacy of Linden", undated
"Leper's Passage at Cashel", undated
"Leveret", undated
"Lights Out", undated
"Lines to a Moth", undated
"Little Ascension Day", undated
"Living Room", undated
"London Garden", undated
"Londonderry", undated
"Loss", undated
"Mad Boy, and Thaw", undated
"Maire", undated
"Mama Fiesta for Summer", undated
"Manifesto", undated
"Marketing the Scrolls", undated
"Markham Sunday", 1995
"Martin Scally", undated
"The Match(es)", undated
"Maura", undated
"Maurice and the Bull", undated
"Meeting at a Salesyard", undated
"Meetings", undated
"A Memory", undated
"A Memory of Hay", undated
"Michael Ennis", undated
"Midland Water", undated
"Miserere", undated
"Missionary on the Highway", undated
"Moinin", undated
"Monosexuality", undated
"Monuments", undated
"Mortuary", undated
"Mother", undated
"Mother Grow", undated
"Mothtime", undated
"Mushrooms at Dusk", undated
"My Brother", undated
"Naim", undated
"Night All Over", undated
"Night Journeys", undated
"A Night's Thunder", undated
"No Change", undated
"Nor Miss Me", undated
"Nora" / "Death By Cancer", undated
"Nosanna", undated
"November", undated
"November Field", undated
"November Mountain Field", undated
"Novitiate Lakes", undated
"Now, Calendered...", undated
"O better to Hasphere", undated
"O Miss...", undated
"O Roschen Rot", undated
"Official", undated
"Old Fevers", undated
"Old House", undated
"The Old Mines", undated
"Old Wars...", undated
"On the Rise of Neo-Nazism", undated
"Orpheus", undated
"Orpheus in Thrace", undated
"The Other Kings...", undated
"Our Fathers there...", undated
"Over Reisk", undated
"Over the Ocean", undated
"Owel" / "Lough Owel", undated
"Palmerstown to Clonard", undated
"Parable of the Odd Baby", undated
"Park Seat View", undated
"The Party", undated
"Passing the Garden", undated
"Passover Night", undated
"Paternity", undated
"Patient", undated
"The Pipe", undated
"The Piper", undated
"Pine Song", undated
"Plight of the Whales", undated
"Poem", undated
"Poem for David", undated
"Poem for Donagh", undated
"Poisoned", undated
"Policy", undated
"Pond Ice", undated
"Portrait", undated
"Post-Wodwo Days", undated
"Preparations", undated
"The Price of Books", undated
"A Priest.", undated
"Professor", undated
"Recognition", undated
"Reductio ad Mahockey", undated
"Request", undated
"Request of the Dying", undated
"Retreat by Clew Bay", undated
"Rev. John", undated
"Revenge of the Dyads", undated
"Ronald Barzee", undated
"Rondeau Pasd Woodstown", undated
"Roses at Coralstown", undated
"Run, Hare, Run", undated
"Sabotaging...", undated
"Sack of Shortfall", undated
"Sanctus", undated
"Sanna Und Conrad", undated
"Sarsfield's Ghost", undated
"Scorpious", undated
"The Sea Never Dies", undated
"Second Movement", undated
"Secondary Private Marm", undated
"Seek the Fain Land", undated
"Sgaruint na Grompanach", undated
"Shakespeare in Mid Season", undated
"She Looks for a Kindling", undated
"A Shiver in the Grass", undated
"Showband", undated
"Shudder the Day", undated
"The Skulling", undated
"Sliere Coillte", undated
"To Sligo", undated
"Sligowards", undated
"The Slow Bell", undated
"A Small Forest", undated
"Solar", undated
"Soliloquy", undated
"Solutions, For Edom", undated
"Song", undated
"A Song for Sinah", undated
"Song of the Ash Barrens", undated
"Sons of Booth", undated
"Sojourning now...", undated
"Southward in May", undated
"Speech for a Dream", undated
"Spem in Alium", undated
"Sports at the Tele", undated
"Staffman", undated
"The Stone Corridor", undated
"The Stone Flags", undated
"The Storm Begins", undated
"Strand Dump Scavenger", 1969
"Strong Rope", undated
"Strong Water", undated
"Summer", undated
"The Summons", undated
"The sun on the horizon...", undated
"Sunday Walk", undated
"Swallows", undated
"Sweeney", undated
"Talking to the Skin", undated
"Te Deuar", undated
"Temptation at Lismore", undated
"Thanks", undated
"Therese", undated
"Thermopylae", undated
"The Thirty Days", undated
"Thorton", undated
"Those Last Few Hours", undated
"Time", undated
"A Tin of Sardines", undated
"To Jonathan", undated
"To Market, To Market", undated
"Tragedy", undated
"Treatment by Suction", undated
"The Trojan Women", undated
"Turn Out", undated
"Two Eyes in May", undated
"Two Men on a Bog", undated
"Two Nieces and a Nephew", undated
"Union Canal", undated
"Up Against", undated
"Vacancy", undated
"Venetian Holiday", undated
"Vincent's Ball", undated
"Visit to a Lakeside", undated
"Visit to Athlone", undated
"Visitation", undated
"Visitors", undated
"Vistas", undated
"Voice Under the Elm", undated
"Voices in the Night", undated
"Votive", undated
"A Walk", undated
"Wall of Trust", undated
"Ward", 1975
"Wary Caesar", undated
"Water", undated
"The Weeks Go By", undated
"We had met...", undated
"Weather", undated
"What Orbit Ours?", undated
"What the Silence Said", undated
"Where Memory Unhinges", undated
"Where Men Ate", undated
"White Crows", undated
"White Frosty", undated
"White Hyacinth", undated
"White Laughter", undated
"White Vitriol", undated
"Who Takes Care", undated
"Wind From the East", undated
"Winetown", undated
"Winter Scene", undated
"With the Bowmen", undated
"With Tutenkamen", undated
"Wood Green", undated
"Woodquest in the Sky", undated
"Woodstown", undated
"Words with Simon", undated
"Work on Wrens Day", undated
"The Years", undated
Unidentified Poem Drafts, undated
Early Poetry Notes, undated
Poetry Notes and Poem Lists, undated
Notebooks, 1960s-1970s
Notebook, 1969
Drafts Notebook, 1992-1993
Notebook, 1995
Standard Exercise Notebook, undated
Notebook, undated
Poetry Sheets Notebook, undated
Drafts Notebook, undated
Notebooks, undated
Musical Works, 1974-2011
Deise Dei, 1983-1997
The Struggle, 1974-1989
Mise Henry, circa 1984
Shouting, 1985-1990
Come the Sails, 2011
Short Stories, 1970-1979
"Between Two Masses", circa 1970s
"A Day in the Country", circa 1970s
"Mass Drowning", circa 1970s
"The Play", circa 1970s
"Report from Elysium", circa 1970s
"The Sand Boy", circa 1970s
"A Study of the Use of Myth and Archetype in the Work of a Contemporary Irish Poet", 1997 May
From 2002 to 2009, John Ennis co-edited a trilogy of anthologies of Canadian and Irish poetry and one anthology consisting entirely of Canadian poetry. Ennis's interest in Canadian poetry initially grew out of his responsibility as the Head of the School of Humanities at the Waterford Institute of Technology to further the college's overseas relationships, and in particular, to revitalize the long-standing cultural ties between Ireland's South-East region and Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada.
Arranged by anthology in chronological order.
The Backyards of Heaven: Permissions / Biographical Information, 2002 October-2003 February
The Backyards of Heaven: Permissions - Newfoundland and Labrador Poets, 2002 December-2003 January
The Echoing Years, 2005-2009
The Echoing Years: Correspondence, 2005
The Echoing Years: French Canadian Poetry and Correspondence, 2006 January 22-2006 January 24
The Echoing Years: Canadian Poetry, 2006
The Echoing Years: Permissions, 2007
How the Light Gets In, 2007-2009
Correspondence, 1967-2016
Consists of correspondence of John Ennis from the 1960s through the 2010s, much of which has to do with matters related to poetry, both his own work and the work of others. Correspondents include fellow poets and authors, editors, publishers, and friends. Among them are Seamus Heaney, John F. Deane, Des Hogan, Dennis O'Driscoll, Brendan Kennelly, Macdara Woods, Neil Jordan, Michael Hartnett, Chris Agee, Noel Monahan, Seán Dunne, Paul Durcan, Frank Ormsby, Padraic Fiacc, Seán Lucy, Francis Stuart, Michael Longley, Peter Fallon (The Gallery Press), David Marcus (New Irish Writing, The Irish Press), James and Janice F. Simmons (The Poets House, Ireland), and others. There are both incoming letters, as well as copies of outgoing letters, often in the form of handwritten drafts.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
A, 1976-1996
A., John, 1989-1994
Agee, Chris, 1988-2015
B, 1976-2010
Bizimana, Jean, undated
Boland, Eavan, undated
Boran, Pat, 2002-2006
Burnside, Sam, 1997-1998
C, 1975-2016
Caball, Marc, 1997-2000
Cashman, Seamus, 2003-2008
Chadha, Vijay (Mosaic), 1980-1981
Clure, Anne, 1994
Conneely, Martin, 1981-1982
Counihan, Deirdre, 1983-1984
Creighton, Edna, 1978-1981
D, 1971-2008
Deane, John F., 1980-2015
Dooley, Con, 1977-1980
Doorty, John, 2001
Dorgan, Theo, 1991-2008
Drury, Ronan, 2002
Dunne, Dan, 2003
Dunne, Seán, 1980-1995
Durcan, Paul, 1976-1978
Ennis, Brenda, 1997
Ennis, Fiona, 2002-2006
Ennis, "Mother", 1971-1975
Ennis (Casey), Therese, 1984-2016
F, 1980-2005
Farrell, Anne, 1993-1995
Fiacc, Padriac, 1979
G, 1971-1995
Goodby, John, 1997
Groeger, J.A., 1978-1979
H, 1968-2007
Hartnett, Michael, 1976-1977
Heaney, Seamus, 1979-2009
Henry, Maurice, 1975-1976
Hogan, Desmond, 1977-1979
Hughes, Harry, 2001-2002
I, 1990
Irish Writers' Center, 2007
Irish Writers' Union, 1987-1995
Italian Cultural Institute, 1998
J, 1980-2003
Jay, Peter, 1977-1984
Johnston, Dillon, 1975-1976
K, 1976-2016
Kay, Ernest, 1980
Kelly, Christopher, 1991
Kennelly, Brendan, 1974-1994
L, 1993-2009
Larlin, Ronnie, 2003
Lazcano, Ana Cecilia, 2002
Livewell, David (Janus), 1997
Longley, Michael, 1996
Loughlin, Bernard, 1984-1985
Lucy, Seán, 1967-1976
M, 1977-2015
Maggs, Randal, 2008
Marks, Patricia H., and Waterman, Susan (Princeton University Library Chronicle), 1977-1978
Matsumura, Kenchi, 1984
McCarthy, Patricia, 2003
McCormack, Niall, 1993-2001
McKenzie, Stephanie, 2002-2007
McLeod, Niall, 1984-1994
McMillan, Peter, 2000
Miller, Liam, 1976
Monahan, Noel, 1989
Moore, Esteban, 1997
Morris, Niamh, 1996-1998
Murphy, Fran, 1976
Murphy, Liam, 1973-2000
Murray, Philip, 2000-2001
N, 1974-1983
"Neil", 1977-2007
Nolan, Colm, 1975-1977
O, 1976-2007
O'Briain, Colm, 1978
O'Brien, Michael, 2004-2008
O'Driscoll, Dennis, 1987-2010
O'Mahony, John, 1980
P, 1975-2006
"Philip", 1978-2000
Power, Eileen, 1975-1976
Praga Terente, Ines, 1997
Q, 1995-2002
Quinn, Antoinette, 2003-2004
R, 1976-2014
Rumens, Carol, 1997
S, 1967-2012
Sweeney, Liz, 1986
T, 1990-2016
Treacy, Maura, 1978
Van de Kamp, Peter, undated
W, 1975-2006
Walsh, Barbara, 1980
Woods, Macdara, 1978
Y, 1983-2001
Outgoing Letter Drafts, 1976-2010
Miscellaneous Memos, 2002-2003
Miscellaneous Envelopes, 1973-2006
Miscellaenous Notes, 1973-2003
Poetry Ireland, 1970-2013
Irish poet and novelist John F. Deane founded Poetry Ireland (Éigse Éireann), a Dublin-based nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting poetry throughout Ireland, in 1978. John Ennis was a founding member of the group, as well as an executive member for the first eleven years. In 1988 and 1989, Ennis also served as an editor for issues 22, 23, 24, and 25 of the Poetry Ireland Review, a literary journal published by the organization three times per year. Materials present in this file group include correspondence with directors of Poetry Ireland, as well as with poets and reviewers submitting work, agendas for meetings and related planning documents, draft manuscripts for the issues of the Poetry Ireland Review that Ennis edited, copies of newsletters and mass mailings to members and directors, letterhead and rejection slips, advertisements and event announcements, and two of Ennis's membership cards from 1979 and 1980. These files shed light on the organizational dynamics of Poetry Ireland from its inception through the 1990s, as well as on Ennis's editorial work for the Poetry Ireland Review.
Arranged by material type.
Poetry Ireland Review, 1987-1989
Letters to the Editor, 1987-1988
Editorial Notes and Drafts, 1988
Poetry Ireland Review 22, 1988
Poetry Ireland Review 24, 1988
Poetry Ireland Review 25, 1988-1989
Poetry Ireland Newsletter, 1978-2000
Poetry Ireland News, 2001-2013
Poetry Ireland Clippings, 1979-1991
Poetry Ireland Notes, 1980s
During his career as a poet and administrator, Ennis also served as a facilitator for creative writing workshops and courses, including a creative writing group for the Liberal Studies Program at Waterford Regional Technical College, where he was the Head of the School of Humanities. Materials consist primarily of reading assignments (some of which are heavily annotated) and notes for lectures or discussions, along with some copies of assignments and drafts of his own poems, which were likely used as examples. Topics include the basics of composition, as well as specific forms including poetry, novels, and short stories. Though the majority of materials in this file group are undated, most are likely from the late 1970s through the 1980s.
Arranged by topic.
Poetry Workshop Reader, undated
Research Paper Assignment, undated
Notes on "The Novel", undated
Notes on The Rainbow, undated
Notes on "The Short Story", undated
Readings: Short Stories, undated
Student Short Stories, undated
Notes on Browning, undated
Readings: Poems, undated
Readings: Japanese Poetry, undated
Notes on Dylan Thomas, undated
Notes on W. B. Yeats, undated
Readings: John Dryden, undated
Readings: Thomas Kinsella, undated
Readings: T. S. Eliot, undated
Thematic Analysis, undated
Notes for Introductory Talk, undated
Student Poems, undated
Vocabulary Test, undated
Readings: "On Language", undated
Readings: Poets and Authors, undated
Writings by Others, 1981-2008
Consists of drafts of writings by others that John Ennis accumulated throughout his career. These include drafts of the work of known poets such as Eavan Boland, Thomas Kinsella, and Medbh McGuckian, mostly collected through Ennis's involvement in the selection of poetry collections for Poetry Ireland's book club, Poetry Ireland Choice (PIC); as well as writings by poets and authors, such as Chris Agee and Stephanie McKenzie, whom Ennis mentored informally or through his work as a creative writing workshop facilitator. In addition, there are some book-length drafts of poetry collections and longer works submitted for Ennis's Irish-Canadian anthologies. Drafts are occasionally annotated or accompanied by related letters, clippings, and other printed materials.
Arranged alphabetically by the name of the author.
Agee, Chris, 1997
Archer, Nuala, undated
Boland, Eavan, 1982
Coady, Michael, undated
Coles, Don, 1993
Dawe, Gerald, 1982
Dawe, Tom, undated
Deerchild, Rosanna, undated
Dempster, Barry, undated
De Paor, Louis, undated
Dunne, Seán, undated
Ennis, Therese, undated
Fiacc, Padriac, undated
Fryatt, Kit, 2005
Garvey, Alan, undated
Hartnett, David, undated
Herbert, M., undated
Hewitt, John, 1983
Higgins, Rita Ann, 2005
Hynes, Joel, 2003-2004
Kelly, Maeve, 1986
Kidd, Monica, 2005
Kinsella, Thomas, 1990
Lordan, Dave, 2007
Manicom, David, undated
McFadden, Roy, undated
McGuckian, Medbh, 1984
McKenzie, Stephanie, undated
McWhirter, George, undated
Moore, Alan, 1986
Murray, Paul, 1981
Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean, 1981
Ni Dhomhnaill, Nuala, 1998
O'Loughlin, Michael, 1985
Peters, Anne, 1982
Proulx-Turner, Sharon, 2008
Quigley, Martin, 2002
Ramsell, Billy, undated
Reidy, Gerrard, 1999-2002
Seng, Goh Poh, 2007
Sheerin, Joe, 1984
Simmons, James, undated
Smart, Carolyn, undated
Sweeney, Matthew, undated
Tremblay, Mildred, undated
Wade, Tom, undated
Unidentified Authors, undated
Subject Files, 1967-2016
Subject files consist of miscellaneous topical files containing documents, printed materials, correspondence, clippings, and notes, related to various aspects of Ennis's professional career. Materials pertain to organizations with which Ennis was involved, including the Waterford Institute of Technology (Waterford Technical College) and regional and transatlantic arts organizations. There are also biographical materials profiling Ennis and his career, awards he received, press catalogs from his publishers, and clippings and printed materials he collected on various topics.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Arts Council, 1977-1980
Biographies, undated
The Cork Review, 1980-1999
Dedalus Press Catalogs, 1987-1998
Financial, 1975-2015
Finton Powell, undated
The Gallery Press, 1980-1990
ICSC 1967 Carlow 1st Prize, 1967
Listowel Print Biennial, 1985
John Joe Nevin Clippings, 2012
Poetry Clippings, 1970s
Profile, 1976-2016
Eric Sweeney Publicity, 1983
Teacher's Union of Ireland, 2009
City of Waterford, 1973-1991
Waterford Technical College, 1968-1990
Miscellaneous Clippings, 1973-2013
Miscellaneous Notes, 1990-2003
Consists of audiovisual and digital media collected by John Ennis, including 50 audiocassette tapes, 2 VHS tapes, and 1 3.5" floppy disk of various content, such as recorded interviews, poetry readings, lectures, and events, as well as several commercial recordings. Some recordings appear to pertain to Ennis's own work, while others relate to the work of other poets and writers. While additional audiovisual materials are also occasionally present elsewhere in the collection, these materials were received as a group from the collection creator and were maintained as such. Titles and dates for individual items were taken from information written on physical media, but materials are otherwise unidentified. Most are undated.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
Poems Recorded, undated
Coriolanus, 1965
Harnegy, 1991
Anarony Cord, undated
Robert Lowell, undated
"Hatchett", undated
"The Great H.", undated
Ardan Higgin, undated
P. Colum, undated
D.H. Lawrence, undated
The Brontes, undated
Neil Poems, undated
Unlabeled Tape, undated
Poems, undated
Her Poems, undated
Poetry Thursday, undated
Various Names, undated
Yeats, undated
John Ennis, undated
- Scope and Contents
The papers consist of Irish poet John Ennis's writings, working files related to his role as an editor of four anthologies of Irish and Canadian poetry and the Poetry Ireland Review, correspondence pertaining to poetry and other professional activities, files of the Irish arts organization Poetry Ireland, teaching materials, drafts of writings by others, subject files, and audiovisual and digital media. Materials span the length of Ennis's career of over five decades as a poet and literary editor and also document to a lesser extent his work as a creative writing teacher and university administrator.
Ennis's writings include manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, publicity, source materials, and other papers related to his published poetry and unpublished work from the late 1960s through 2016. While most of this material pertains to Ennis's poetry, there are also drafts of lyrics he wrote for musical collaborations with composer Eric Sweeney and unpublished short stories, as well as a bound copy of Ennis's PhD thesis on the use of myth and archetype in his own work. Additional editorial files document the conception, assembly, and publication of the four anthologies of Irish and Canadian poetry Ennis edited between 2002 and 2009; these files consist of correspondence, submissions, permissions, drafts, proofs, editorial notes, publicity, and financial documents.
Ennis's papers also include materials documenting the activities of Poetry Ireland from its inception in 1978 through the 1990s, as well as its journal Poetry Ireland Review, which Ennis edited from 1988 to 1989; correspondence with fellow poets, editors, publishers, and colleagues; readings, handouts, and lecture drafts from Ennis's tenure as a creative writing lecturer and workshop facilitator; drafts of writings by others that Ennis collected throughout his career; professional subject files containing correspondence, documents, and printed materials related to Irish poetry and various local and international organizations with which Ennis was involved; and a small number of recorded poetry readings, interviews, and other events.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Ennis
John Ennis was born in Westmeath, Ireland, in 1944. He is a graduate of University College Cork and University College Dublin, where he completed his MA in English and American Studies. Ennis's first book of poetry was published by Peter Fallon of the Gallery Press in 1976 and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. He has also won the Listowel Open Poetry Competition eleven times and the Irish American Cultural Institute Award in 1996. In addition to publishing nineteen books of poetry between 1976 and 2016, Ennis has been editor of Poetry Ireland Review, and served on the board of Poetry Ireland for eleven years. Ennis also worked for forty years at the Waterford Institute of Technology as Lecturer and Head of the School of Humanities. At Waterford, Ennis received his PhD in 1997, and also served as Chair of the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. From 2002 to 2007, he co-edited three anthologies of Irish and Canadian poetry, and edited a further all-Canadian anthology in 2009. In 2008, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Laws by Memorial University of Newfoundland, for fostering links between Ireland and Newfoundland, and for his poetry. Ennis retired from education in 2009 and now focuses on poetry and activism. He divides his time between Waterford and Westmeath.
- Acquisition:
Purchase, 2017 (AM 2017-131).
- Appraisal
No materials were separated during 2017 processing.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Kelly Bolding in Spring-Summer 2017, with assistance from Kathryn Antonelli, Julia English '19, Fiona Bell '18, Sophia Alvarez '18, and Rachel Dubin '17. Finding aid written by Kelly Bolding in Spring-Summer 2017, with assistance from Julia English '19.
- Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
- Credit this material:
John Ennis Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/qz20sw374
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes B-000912 to B-000990
- Subject Terms:
- Canadian poetry. -- 21st century -- Sources
Creative writing (Higher education) -- Ireland. -- 20th century -- Sources
Editors -- Ireland. -- 21st century -- Sources
Irish poetry. -- 20th century -- Sources
Irish poetry. -- 21st century -- Sources
Poets, Irish. -- 20th century -- Sources
Poets, Irish. -- 21st century -- Sources
Political poetry. -- 21st century -- Sources - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
Drafts (documents). -- 20th century - Names:
- Dedalus Press.
Gallery Press (Loughcrew, Ireland)
Poetry Ireland (Group)
Agee, Chris
Deane, John F. (1943)
Ennis, John (1944)
Fallon, Peter (1951)
Heaney, Seamus (1939-2013)
Hogan, Desmond (1951)
Lucy, Seán.
Marcus, David - Places:
- Ireland.
