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Collection Overview
- Title:
- Anne Fitzgerald Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0k225n313
- Dates:
- 1982-2021 (mostly 2000-2021)
- Size:
- 9.6 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-7
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of correspondence, drafts of poems, ephemera, and photographs documenting the working career of the Irish poet, Anne Fitzgerald.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The majority of the collection is correspondence with ephemera and a small amount of photographic prints and a few photographic negatives. The ephemera are largely promotional and publicity materials for launches, readings, and other publication-related events. Of note in the collection are drafts of Anne Fitzgerald's work; materials regarding her various publications and work; some correspondence and planning and promotional materials from Fitzgerald's publishing house, Forty Foot Press; and materials documenting the Thornfield Poets, including correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, and ephemera.
- Arrangement
Materials are arranged in the order in which they were received.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Fitzgerald
Anne Fitzgerald is a poet, editor, and publisher from Sandycove, Dublin, Ireland. She studied law at Trinity College and received her MA in Creative Writing from Queen's University, Belfast. Fitzgerald founded Forty Foot Press in 2006, as well as two educational publishing houses for schools, MET Press and Loreto Abbey Dalkey Press. She has edited, produced, and designed anthologies of young adult poetry, and has facilitated creative writing workshops with children and adults in schools and universities across the world, including in Iceland, Taos, Idaho, and Beara Island. Fitzgerald was a member of the Thornfield poets, and was a recipient of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Writer-in-Residence.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Kenny's Bookshop and Art Galleries in 2021 (AM 2022-096).
- Appraisal
Four record cartons and two oversized folders of out-of-scope materials were removed from the collection. Deaccessioned materials include newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals; unannotated programs, brochures, posters, handouts, pamphlets, order catalogs, and other ephemera from conferences, events, and organizations; travel tickets, documents, and ephemera; duplicate materials, handouts, and printouts of webpages; financial and legal documents such as jury summons, applications, insurance documents, bank statements, utility bills; and a large amount of personal documents and objects such as grade school uniforms and correspondence, autographs, locks of hair, medical prescriptions, jewelry, and other materials.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Amy C. Vo in 2022. Where appropriate, materials were rehoused in archival folders and boxes with any creator-supplied titles transcribed. Materials were also rehoused in archival folders and boxes in instances where materials were loose in containers, or binders were damaged.
Finding aid written by Amy C. Vo in 2022.
The born-digital materials in this collection have been processed according to Princeton University Library's Born-Digital Processing Workflows. For more information on the workflow, please read our full Born-Digital Processing Information Note.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research, except for a journal in box 7 which will be open after Anne Fitzgerald's death.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. No further duplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to Special Collections Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- 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.
This collection contains digital files, which may require specific software or hardware for access. Refer to our Tips on Accessing Born-Digital Content for information on how to render these file formats.
- Credit this material:
Anne Fitzgerald Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0k225n313
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-7
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- Separated Materials
Commercial books, periodicals, and audiovisual media have been separated from the collection.
- Subject Terms:
- Authors, Irish -- 21st century -- Sources
Irish literature -- 21st century -- Sources
Irish poetry -- 21st century -- Sources.
Poetry -- Publishing -- 21st century
Poets, Irish -- 21st century -- Sources.
Small presses. - Genre Terms:
- Drafts (documents) -- 21st century
- Names:
- Thornfield Poets (Dublin, Ireland)
Forty Foot Press
