Guide to the Papers of Peter O'Shaughnessy
MS 2272; MS Acc03.282; MS Acc09.038; .MS Acc11.099; MS Acc11.150
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- O'Shaughnessy, Peter
- Title
- Papers of Peter O'Shaughnessy
- Date Range
- 1812-c. 2011
- Collection Number
- MS 2272; MS Acc03.282; MS Acc09.038; .MS Acc11.099; MS Acc11.150
- Extent
- 12.18 metres (30 boxes + 20 cartons + 1 A3 carton + 3 folio boxes + 1 folder + 172 sound/av carriers)
- Physical Facet
- MS 2272: (17 ms boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 1 large folio box)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary drafts and notes, research material, newspaper clippings, sound recordings and photographs.
The correspondence documents O'Shaughnessy's associations with numerous theatrical and literary figures. The major correspondents include Phillip Adams, Samuel Beckett, Margaret Beveridge, Dorothy Bradley (Collopy), Sylvia Buzzard (Lock), Louis Cullen, Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries, Claude Marks, Barry Oakley, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Desmond O'Shaughnessy, Nora O'Shaughnessy, Wynn Roberts and Ian Rose. The Humphries letters form a significant part of the collection, and reveal the influence that O'Shaughnessy had on Humphries' early career.
The literary drafts represent a small proportion of O'Shaughnessy's theatrical works and writings. There is draft material for various plays, musicals, novels, memoirs, lectures and other writings, including works that have not yet been published or produced. The bulk of the draft and research material relates to Joseph Holt, a United Irish military leader involved in the 1798 rebellion in County Wicklow (Ireland).
The collection includes little original material relating to O'Shaughnessy's 1967 libel suit against Mirror Newspapers, although O'Shaughnessy gives an account of the matter in his unpublished memoirs, 'How I beat Rupert Murdoch, and how I brought down the Whitlam Government, with some other yarns'.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2788067).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Peter O'Shaugnessy, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file number]'.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Drafts of The restless years (1968) were donated to the National Library in 1969. Extracts from a transcript of a 1986 interview with O'Shaughnessy were added to the collection in 1986. The bulk of the collection was purchased from O'Shaughnessy in five instalments between November 2000 and May 2001, with a further donation of material in June 2001.
Related Materials
The Ian Rose Papers (MS 2767) include letters of O'Shaughnessy and a draft mock-up by David Boyd for the cover of A rum story (1988). There are also programs and other ephemera relating to O'Shaughnessy in the Library's Australian Performing Arts (PROMPT) Collection. A recording of a 1986 interview with O'Shaughnessy by Bob Brissenden is held in the Library's Oral History Collection (ORAL TRC 1979).
Further recordings of performances and readings by O'Shaughnessy are held by ScreenSound Australia (Canberra), and costume and set designs for various productions by O'Shaughnessy are held by the Museum for Performing Arts (Melbourne).
Arrangement
The papers were received from O'Shaughnessy in relatively good order. Wherever possible, the Library has tried to retain this arrangement.
Biographical / Historical
As an actor, director and producer for the stage, Peter O'Shaughnessy presented the work of playwrights ranging from Shakespeare, Shaw, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov to modern dramatists, such as Ionesco, Pinter and Samuel Beckett. He was a pioneer in the production of the plays of Beckett, and directed the Irish premieres of Not I and Footfalls (1978), Rockaby and Theatre I (1984); the Australian premieres of Waiting for Godot (1957) and Krapp's last tape (1959); and the English and world premieres of Theatre I and Theatre II, at Cambridge (1977). As a writer, editor and lecturer, he promoted early Australian history and folklore. In January 2013 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the performing arts. Resident in Britain since the 1970s, O'Shaughnessy died at Winchester in July 2013.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 2272. Original Consignment
The literary drafts in MS 2272 represent a small proportion of O'Shaughnessy's theatrical works and other writings, which range from classical works to Australian and Irish history and folklore. There is draft material for various plays, musicals, novels, memoirs, lectures and other writings, including works that have not yet been published or produced. The bulk of the draft material relates to Joseph Holt, a United Irish military leader involved in the 1798 rebellion in County Wicklow, Ireland (17 boxes, 3 fol. boxes).
Series 1. Correspondence, 1941-2001
This series features letters to and from O'Shaughnessy regarding literary and theatrical projects family matters travel arrangements and other aspects of his life and work. O'Shaughnessy's letters provide a picture of the routine of his life as a director writer and actor. They include comments on family friends colleagues and contemporary Australian public figures. There is minimal editorial correspondence apart from notes by Louis Cullen regarding a File on Joseph Holt and comments by Phillip Adams on various writings.
The major correspondents include Phillip Adams Samuel Beckett Margaret Beveridge Dorothy Bradley (Collopy) Sylvia Buzzard (Lock) Louis Cullen Germaine Greer Claude Marks Brian O'Shaughnessy Desmond O'Shaughnessy Nora O'Shaughnessy Wynn Roberts and Ian Rose.
The letters of Samuel Beckett were previously held by Reading University 1995-2001 and are annotated with their accession number of MS 4294 which has been crossed out. O'Shaughnessy directed the world premieres of Beckett's plays Theatre I and Theatre 11 at Cambridge (England) in 1976 and the letters concern further productions of works by Beckett at the Triskel Theatre in Cork.
The Library has identified and maintained two sequences of correspondence. Most of the letters were roughly arranged according to the correspondent and these have been sorted in an alphabetical sequence by the correspondent's surname. There were also several bundles of miscellaneous correspondence which have been grouped together. Correspondence with Barry Humphries is located in Series 5.
Subseries 1.1. Alphabetical files, 1943-2001
The British Council 1981-1986 together with papers regarding tours through Eastern Europe 1982-1987. (File 6) - Box 1 (MS 2272)
May Fitzgerald 1960-1962; Eilis Geary 1977; Germaine Greer (3 letters) 1998-1999. (File 14) - Box 2 (MS 2272)
Subseries 1.2. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1941-2000
Letters of O'Shaughnessy to Sylvia Buzzard (Lock) 1943-1953 together with typescript carbon copy drafts of poems (File 3) - Box 5 (MS 2272)
Miscellaneous letters 1941-1949 including letters of Phil Carne and Shirley O'Shaughnessy (File 4) - Box 5 (MS 2272)
Series 2. Diaries, 1948-1979
O'Shaughnessy's diaries contain often sparse and sporadic entries of notes and arrangements for performances travel appointments and other general matters. They relate to his activities both in Australia and England.
Series 3. Notebooks
The notebooks in this series contain notes and drafts of short stories poems reminiscences and other writings by O'Shaughnessy. There are notebooks titled 'Sheela-na-gig' 'Denis O'Shaughnessy's going to Maynooth' 'Two young lovers' 'Cora dialogues' 'Blood brothers' 'Totem' 'The lady with the toy dog' 'Mac Con Glin' (2) 'Castello Oz' (2) 'The young Irelanders' (4) and 'Joseph Holt' (6). Many notebooks are untitled and relate to a variety of projects.
Series 4. Literary drafts
O'Shaughnessy's writings range from classical works to Australian and Irish history and folklore. His theatrical productions include original Files as well as adaptations of works by such writers as Samuel Beckett Geoffrey Chaucer Nikolai Gogol Eugene Ionesco William Shakespeare and August Strindberg.
This series includes draft material relating to various plays musicals novels memoirs lectures articles and other writings including works that have not yet been published or produced. Much of the material comprises single photocopied drafts with few annotations.
The bulk of the draft and research material relates to Joseph Holt a United Irish military leader involved in the 1798 rebellion in County Wicklow (Ireland). Featured among the other writings are drafts and notes for Rock 'n reel revue a 'controversial' representation of the reality of Australian life. This production had its origins in O'Shaughnessy's pioneering lunchtime theatre productions in Melbourne in the 1950s. There are also autobiographical writings that relate to various aspects of O'Shaughnessy's life and career including his family his work with Barry Humphries the 1967 libel suit involving Katharine Brisbane and Mirror Newspapers and a proposed libel suit in 1996 involving Barry Oakley and Mirror Newspapers.
Further draft material may be found in the notebooks in Series 3. Related reviews sound recordings and photographs may be found in Series 8-10.
Subseries 4.1. Writings relating to Joseph Holt
Research material (File 1-6) - Box 8 (MS 2272)
Including a photocopy of the original Holt journal (incomplete); annotated photocopy transcript of 'Politics and rebellion: County Wicklow in the 1790s' by Luke Cullen; photocopy of 'General Joseph Holt and the rebellion of 1798 in County Wicklow' and 'Roundwood in 1798' by Ruan O'Donnell
Text section prefaces and notes: annotated typescript photocopy draft (File 11-12) - Box 9 (MS 2272)
Photographs (3) of prints: 'Cove Harbour'; 'Castle of Dublin'; 'Pigeon House' (File 14) - Box 10 (MS 2272)
Typescript annotated typescript and typescript photocopy drafts of various writings regarding Holt primarily by O'Shaughnessy (File 16-17) - Box 10 (MS 2272)
Roundwood and District History and Folklore Journal no. 6 1994 edited by O'Shaughnessy (File 18) - Box 10 (MS 2272)
Subseries 4.2. Other writings
'Miss Julie' (also 'Lady Mary and the Irish conquest'): typescript photocopy draft (File 1) - Box 11 (MS 2272)
'Rock 'n reel revue': manuscript typescript and annotated typescript draft fragments (File 3) - Box 11 (MS 2272)
'Rock 'n reel revue': typescript photocopy draft fragments; miscellaneous photocopied material relating to Barry Humphries c. 1950s; photocopied letter of Meg Labrum 2000 (File 4) - Box 11 (MS 2272)
'Mumba Jumba and the bunyip': annotated typescript draft; 'The bunyip' and 'It's beaut to be the bunyip: how the bunyip found himself': typescript photocopy drafts; 'Djinboon and the bunyip: a bush musical': typescript notes (File 6) - Box 11 (MS 2272)
'The lady with the toy dog': typescript and typescript photocopy drafts (File 12-13) - Box 12 (MS 2272)
'Let's get a divorce (Divorcons)': typescript draft; 'Divorce? Ooh! La la!': typescript photocopy drafts (File 15-16) - Box 12-13 (MS 2272)
'The dance of death': typescript draft; photocopied newspaper clippings of reviews (File 17) - Box 13 (MS 2272)
'Dark roisin': typescript photocopy draft; 'The Pope's balls' (featuring 'Dark roisin' and 'According to Saint Paul'): typescript photocopy draft (File 18) - Box 13 (MS 2272)
'Con's fabulous journey to the land of Gobel O'Glug or The fabulous journey of Mac Con Glin': typescript and typescript photocopy drafts (2) (File 19-20) - Box 13 (MS 2272)
The fabulous journey of Mac Con Glin Sabrainne 1985; Con's fabulous journey to the Land of Gobel O'Glug The Children's Press 1992 (File 21-22) - Box 13 (MS 2272)
'Castello Oz' (also 'The curse of Santa Scorpio'): annotated typescript drafts and notes (File 23) - Box 13 (MS 2272)
'How I beat Rupert Murdoch and how I brought down the Whitlam Government with some other yarns': typescript and typescript photocopy draft (File 24) - Box 14 (MS 2272)
'Little Dinny in Berlin': typescript photocopy draft; 'The darlings': manuscript notes (File 25) - Box 14 (MS 2272)
'Jane' (also 'Jane: Queen of Quoin'): annotated typescript photocopy draft (File 26) - Box 14 (MS 2272)
'Seven young Irelanders in Van Diemen's Land': typescript photocopy draft; 'Ned Kelly in Ireland': typescript photocopy notes (File 27) - Box 14 (MS 2272)
'Denis O'Shaughnessy's going to Maynooth' (also 'O'Shaughnessy's boy' 'Godsway' and 'Dinny O'Shaughnessy's cock-eyed colt'): typescript and typescript photocopy drafts (File 28) - Box 14 (MS 2272)
'Kitty O'Mara' (also 'O'Shaughnessy's boy' and 'Godsway'): annotated typescript photocopy draft and notes; 'Sheela-na-gig or The tongues of angels' (also 'That O'Mara woman'): typescript draft (File 29) - Box 14 (MS 2272)
'Blow ins and blowouts: the Hag of Beare meets Fionnoula': annotated typescript photocopy draft; 'Fionnoula's swan song': typescript draft (File 30) - Box 14 (MS 2272)
'Finn Barre: the flaming crest' 'Fionn Barre: the lad with the golden hair' and 'The song of Finbarre': typescript photocopy drafts (File 31) - Box 14 (MS 2272)
'Imtheacht na tromdhaimhe' and 'Imtheachta na noinmhideadh': typescript photocopy drafts (File 32) - Box 15 (MS 2272)
'The asses' tale': annotated typescript drafts and annotated typescript photocopy draft; 'Anno Domini 2000: donkey's years or An ass remembers': typescript photocopy drafts (File 33) - Box 15 (MS 2272)
'Tina Michalthwaite (nee Date)' 'Hey diddle dee dee!' 'JB' and 'Finnegans wake and The Deadman's Inn: James Joyce's fabulous cycle': typescript photocopy drafts and notes; letter of Phillip Adams 2001 (File 34) - Box 15 (MS 2272)
Miscellaneous typescript and annotated typescript drafts and draft fragments of plays (File 35) - Box 15 (MS 2272)
Series 5. Papers relating to Barry Humphries, c. 1956-2000
O'Shaughnessy and Humphries began corresponding in 1956 when O'Shaughnessy was working with the Independent Theatre and Humphries with the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney. In 1958 they collaborated on Rock 'n reel revue a 'controversial revue reflecting some of the reality of Australian life'. Humphries' characters of Edna Everage and Sandy Stone originated from this production. O'Shaughnessy and Humphries also wrote and presented the children's musicals The bunyip and the satellite and Mumba Jumba and the bunyip.
This series features 34 original letters and postcards from Humphries to O'Shaughnessy together with writings by O'Shaughnessy regarding Humphries draft fragments of writings by Humphries photographs and other papers. The letters mostly date from Humphries' move to England 1959-1960 although there are also items from Sydney Melbourne Greece Italy New Zealand and New York. Humphries discusses such topics as the Phillip Street Theatre Sydney social life his early days in London and his work on Oliver in New York.
Letters of Humphries c. 1956-1963 together with letters of Rosalind Hollinrake 1960 and 1995-1998 and a letter of O'Shaughnessy 1996 (File 1) - Box 16 (MS 2272)
Papers regarding Humphries, 1958-2000 (File 2) - Box 16 (MS 2272)
Including O'Shaughnessy's 'Portrait of Barry Humphries as the young Tid' typescript and 'Full of quiet harm: More please by Barry Humphries' typescript photocopy; photocopied fragments from letters of Humphries (3); manuscript typescript and typescript carbon copy notes and draft fragments of writings by Humphries including lyrics of songs for Mumba Jumba and the bunyip; photographs (8) of Humphries on stage; newspaper clippings
Series 6. Legal papers, 1979-2001
In 1967 O'Shaughnessy produced and performed in Othello at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Katharine Brisbane reviewed the production for The Australian newspaper and O'Shaughnessy subsequently sued Mirror Newspapers for defamation. Although the suit was initially unsuccessful a retrial was ordered by the High Court in 1970 and the matter was eventually settled out of court. This series includes several pages of summary notes concerning the case. O'Shaughnessy discusses the matter further in his unpublished memoirs 'How I beat Rupert Murdoch and how I brought down the Whitlam Government with some other yarns' a draft of which may be found in Series 4.
O'Shaughnessy considered a second libel suit against Mirror Newspapers in 1996 following an article by Barry Oakley in The Australian Magazine. O'Shaughnessy had sent a draft of his memoirs to Oakley for advice regarding potential publication. There is correspondence with Des Fennessy Brian Gallagher Stuart Littlemore and Barry Oakley regarding the matter.
The series also features correspondence statements transcript summaries and notes relating to other legal matters such as traffic offences divorce and dealings with the British Department of Social Services.
Series 7. Miscellaneous papers, 1812-1992
This small series includes letters envelopes biographical material receipts drawings posters and printed material. The biographical material features notes by O'Shaughnessy regarding his life and career together with extracts from a transcript of a 1979 interview with O'Shaughnessy by Bob Brissenden.
Miscellaneous papers 1934-1992 including receipts envelopes and ephemera (File 1) - Box 17 (MS 2272)
Photocopied extracts of interview transcripts (File 3) - Box 17 (MS 2272)
Including 'J.B. Beresford and the Melbourne Art Theatre Players' (ORAL TRC 1979) and 'Peter O'Shaughnessy and Barry Humphries: some fruitful collaborations' (ORAL TRC 1979) together with biographical notes c. 1981
Photocopied letters from Michael Collins to Minnie Daly (O'Shaughnessy's grandmother), 1875-1884 (File 4) - Box 17 (MS 2272)
John Poole's Hamlet travestie (1812) and Verdi's grand opera of Ernani as given by Lyster's Grand Opera Company (1863) (File 5-6) - Box 17 (MS 2272), Folio 1 (MS 2272)
Series 8. Newspaper clippings, 1954-2000
This series features clippings of articles and reviews primarily concerning O'Shaughnessy and his works. There are also clippings relating to people or topics of interest including Barry Humphries together with clippings of articles and reviews that O'Shaughnessy wrote as a guest theatre critic for The Argus newspaper in 1955.
Series 9. Photographs, 1945-1990s
This series comprises photographs and negatives featuring O'Shaughnessy and others including studio portraits by Helmut Newton. There are photographs relating to various theatrical productions in Australia and overseas including A village wooing The caretaker Courtship through the ages Diary of a madman Hamlet The importance of being earnest The lady with the toy dog The lesson Miss Julie Othello Summer in the country Swansong and Waiting for Godot. Many of the items are annotated with such information as photographer subject(s) performance and date.
Series 10. Sound recordings, c. 1965-1999
This series features sound recordings of several notable performances and readings by O'Shaughnessy. Included among these is an album of readings released with The restless years (1968) a book on the history of Australia and the development of the characteristics of the Australian people co-authored by O'Shaughnessy Graeme Inson and Russel Ward.
There are also recordings of works by or about Samuel Beckett Geoffrey Chaucer Charles Dickens Nikolai Gogol William Shakespeare Bernard Shaw William Butler Yeats and others.
'The Restless Years' sound recording (Jacaranda Press), 1968 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004304) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-008
1 item, Commercial vinyl 331/3rpm, Vinyl discsMagnetic tapes (8) (File 2-9)
Including recordings titled 'Diary of a madman' c. 1965 'Rock 'n reel revue' 1958 and 'Yeats/Beckett'
Side 1: ? Something unspoken?. Side 2: Australian Legend T1 'Gold Fever' (Upshaw?) T2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004305) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
1 item, Philips 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
'Diary of a Madman' (Item NLA.MS-SAV004306) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
1 item, BASF 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Side 1: 'Elvira <Madigan' by Mozart. Side 2: Egmont, Cant? Reading 'Mary Queen of Scots' (Item NLA.MS-SAV004307) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
1 item, Scotch 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Side 1: Yeats, Beckett. Side 2: 'Purgatory', 2 Beckett Pieces?; Trout (Item NLA.MS-SAV004308) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
1 item, EMITape 7", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Side 1: Nov 1960 Revue O'Shaughnessy. Side 2: Nov 1960 free? ?? Recording ?? 584 Barry Humphries Theatre performance?, 1960 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004309) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
1 item, BASF Magnetophon 7", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
[unlabelled audio reel] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004310) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
1 item, EMITape 7", Magnetic tape reel (any size)Audio cassettes (19) (File 10-28) - Folio 3 (MS 2272)
Including 'A christmas carol' 'Beckett' 'Discovering Shakespeare' 'Eliot' 'Krapp's last tape' 1985 'Anna Livia's Daughters - sons' 'Ovid's Metamorphoses' 'The pope's balls' 1978 'Bernard Shaw' 'Troilus and Criseyde' c.1978-1979 'Yarns' 1999 'Yeats' 'While I live I'll crow' and 'Will'
The Importance of being Irish, Bernard Shaw addresses the English people on the subject of Home Rule and the Unification of Ireland (Item NLA.MS-SAV004313) - Cassette-Box 219
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tapeActual cassette labelled 'Bernard Shaw' on Side A and 'Shaw on Marriage and Divorce' on Side B.
Yarns - Lawson, Paterson, Thatcher, 1999 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004314) - Cassette-Box 219
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tapeYarns Rock n Reel Revue, 1. Sandy Stone, 2. White Sandshoes, 3. Voice of Trawella, 4. Finale, 1958 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004316) - Cassette-Box 219
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tapeMono- L. speaker
Discovering Shakespeare Part 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004317) - Cassette-Box 219
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tapeMono L
A. Discovering Shakespeare Part 2. B. Shakespeare end./Krapps Last Tape (Beckett) (Item NLA.MS-SAV004318) - Cassette-Box 219
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tapeMono L
A. Anna Livia's Daughta - Sons : Beckett/Joyce/Shaw/YeatsB. Yeats Poetry/916/Circus animals desertion/Old man Ben Bulben/Prayer for my Daughter/Second coming (Item NLA.MS-SAV004319) - Cassette-Box 219
1 item, Maxell, Compact cassette tape
A. While I live I'll crow - Frank the poetB. Yeats - General, 1/07/2000 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004320) - Cassette-Box 219
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tape
A. Beckett: Krapp's last tape - an abandoned work B. Peter O'Shaughnessy: While I live I'll crow (Frank the poet) (Item NLA.MS-SAV004321) - Cassette-Box 219
1 item, TDK D90, Compact cassette tapeMono
A. Footfalls - Samuel Beckett Dublin,B. Schubert Quintet, Oct. 1978 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004322) - Cassette-Box 220
1 item, Agfa-Gevaert C90, Compact cassette tape
Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (Item NLA.MS-SAV004323) - Cassette-Box 220
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tape
W B Yeats 'Coole Park', 'Thoor Ballylee', 'The Burren', 1999 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004324) - Cassette-Box 220
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tape
Side 1: 'Will' Pt 1 Broadcast Radio Telfis Eire. 'Will' Pt 2., 1/04/1978 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004325) - Cassette-Box 220
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tapeThis is n early version of my Shakespeare lecture/recital entitled 'Will'. It was broadcast in 2 separates) by Radio Telefis Eire April 1978'
Side A: 'Metamorphoses' by Ovid translated by Golding (1567), recited by Peter O'Shaughnessy (Item NLA.MS-SAV004326) - Cassette-Box 220
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tapeNotes included
Side A: 'Troilus and Cressida' Part 2. Side B: Alternative recording of the end (Item NLA.MS-SAV004327) - Cassette-Box 220
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tape
Side A: 'Troilus and Cressida' Part 1 and 2. 'He who leads the bear'. (Item NLA.MS-SAV004328) - Cassette-Box 220
1 item, Philips FS90, Compact cassette tape
Side : W B Yeats 'Crazy Jane', 'Prayer for my Daughter', 'The Tower' poems (Item NLA.MS-SAV004329) - Cassette-Box 220
1 item, Agfa F-DXI90, Compact cassette tape
T S Eliot. Side A: : 'Waste Land', 'Magi', 'Song of Simeon', 'Marina', 'Cannibal Isle'. Side B: 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock', 'Portrait of a Lady', 'Preludes', 'Conversation Galante', 'La Figlia', ' Gerontion', 'Burbank', Sweeney', 'Whisper of Immortality' (Item NLA.MS-SAV004330) - Cassette-Box 220
1 item, TDK ferric 90, Compact cassette tapeClass MS Acc03.282. Consignment received December 2003
The Acc03.282 instalment comprises many manuscript, typed and printed scripts of plays, television productions and films, together with other manuscripts, reviews, programs, correspondence, research material on Australian and Irish history, notebooks, newspaper cuttings, posters, sketchbooks, photographs, tape recordings, cassettes and films (20 cartons, 1 A3 carton).
Series. Audiovisual
Thorndike (Item NLA.MS-SAV013562) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, Agfa Magnetonband 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Mozart No 38 'The Music Makers' (Item NLA.MS-SAV013563) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, Agfa Magnetonband 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
St John's Passion (Item NLA.MS-SAV013564) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, Agfa Magnetonband 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Ravel Daphnis et Chloe (Item NLA.MS-SAV013565) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, Agfa Magnetonband 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Krapps Last Tape (Item NLA.MS-SAV013566) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, Scotch 7", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Fidelio Pt 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013567) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, Unbranded 7", Magnetic tape reel (any size)Tape case says 'Krapp's Last Tape'
no marking on tape. Case says R Robinson - Poems. Dictation of book. Wipe (Item NLA.MS-SAV013568) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, Unbranded 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Kenneth Slessor poetry (Item NLA.MS-SAV013569) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, EMI 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Restless Years Reel 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013570) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, EMI 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)1/2 tape
[not marked] (Item NLA.MS-SAV013572) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, Agfa 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
[not marked] (Item NLA.MS-SAV013573) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, BASF LP35 LH super 5", Magnetic tape reel (any size)
K' on tape. Case says 'Clear Tape' (Item NLA.MS-SAV013574) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1 item, Agfa 7", Magnetic tape reel (any size)Spectrum-half hour interview Television 1966, 1966 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013091) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-010
1 item, 12 1/4 inch reel, 16mm filmDuration: 29.03 min
Obelius Tempest Swan. Illegible (Item NLA.MS-SAV013092) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
1 item, AGFA 5 inch reel, Magnetic tape reel (any size)HI-17188. 8 tracks. Information in other language (Item NLA.MS-SAV013093) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-019
1 item, 10 1/2 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)HI-17187. Information in other language (Item NLA.MS-SAV013094) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-019
1 item, 10 1/2 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
No Information (Item NLA.MS-SAV013095) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
1 item, National 3 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
No Information (Item NLA.MS-SAV013096) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
1 item, 3 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
No information (Item NLA.MS-SAV013097) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
1 item, Scotch 3 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Five visions of Captain Cook (Item NLA.MS-SAV013236) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
1 item, 3 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)More information on casing
No information (Item NLA.MS-SAV013238) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
1 item, BASF 6 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Frank O'Brien interview, R Iredale at the end of the side. (Item NLA.MS-SAV013239) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
1 item, EMITAPE 6 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
The Flute 1 + 5. J.M> Thomson (Item NLA.MS-SAV013240) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
1 item, AGFA-Gevaert, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Concert by Gabrielli. Introduction of Allegro (?) Ravel (Item NLA.MS-SAV013241) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
1 item, Scotch 5 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Side 1 Guest of Honour-The Gold Field Says. Side 2-Shirley rehearsing Halian woman for TV. (Item NLA.MS-SAV013818) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
1 item, BASF 5 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Lady with the Toy Dog. No 373. Overlander (Item NLA.MS-SAV013819) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
1 item, Deutsche Welle 5 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)More information on reel.
War Effects. Very Good. Retain. (Item NLA.MS-SAV013820) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
1 item, EMITAPE 5 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Enigma Variations-Elexar. Dramatic Music of Purcell (Item NLA.MS-SAV013821) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
1 item, Soni-Tape Type 7, 7 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Hamlet- Gielgud 1948, 1948 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013822) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
1 item, Scotch 7 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
A little Love the Angels. Compliant Love (Item NLA.MS-SAV013823) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
1 item, EMITAPE 7 inch, Magnetic tape reel (any size)
Yeats original. Work print (Item NLA.MS-SAV013824) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
1 item, 7 inch reel, Magnetic tape reel (any size)Duration 9.38
Class MS Acc09.038. Consignment received February 2009
The Acc09.038 instalment includes typescripts of O'Shaughnessy's autobiography, and manuscripts of other works including Irish fables, Totem AA, Sheela-na-gig, Diary of a madman, Troilus and Cressida (abridged from Nevill Coghill's translation of Chaucer's work), and Con and the Lannan Shee (1 box).
Class MS Acc11.099. Consignment received June 2011
The Acc11.099 instalment comprises a revised undated version of the play The dance of death, originally written by August Strindberg, translated and adapted by O'Shaughnessy in 1978 (1 folder).
Class MS Acc11.150. Consignment received November 2011
This consignment comprises script drafts, film treatments, research notes, poetry, correspondence, audio cassettes, news article clippings and programs pertaining to the life and work of Peter O'Shaughnessy.
Box numbering
Please note this consignment no longer comprises Boxes 1 and 2, as contents (audio cassettes) were removed from the box run and stored seprately for preservation purposes. See Finding Aid for listing of individual audio items previously contained in Boxes 1-2.
44 Audiocassettes, c. 1978-2004 (File)
Side A: Beckett Premiers Dublin 1978. Side B: Yeats 1st 1/2, 1978 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001087) - Cassette-Box 70
1 item, Fuji, Compact cassette tape
Side A: Saint Cellach and Guaire. Side B: 1. The Burren: St Colman's Cell, 2. Rhinach gives birth to Colman, 3. Brother na Mis- the story, 4. Foundation of Kilmacduagh, 5. Guaire's daughter, Creide: two poems (Item NLA.MS-SAV001088) - Cassette-Box 70
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Rock'n Reel Revve, 1958 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001089) - Cassette-Box 71
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Side A:Bernard Shaw: Marriage, Divorce. Side B: While I live I'll crow. Frank the Poet (Item NLA.MS-SAV001092) - Cassette-Box 71
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Bernard Shaw: Woman, Marriage, Divorce (Item NLA.MS-SAV001093) - Cassette-Box 71
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Why should hot old men be mad? (Item NLA.MS-SAV001096) - Cassette-Box 71
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Side A: All Livia's Daughter-Sons: Beckett. Joyce/Shaw/ Yeats. Side B: Yeats 1916/The Tower/Circus Animals/ Old Men/ Ben Bulben/ Player-Daughter/ 2nd Coming (Item NLA.MS-SAV001097) - Cassette-Box 71
1 item, Sony, Compact cassette tape
Cellagh and Tales of Guaire (Item NLA.MS-SAV001100) - Cassette-Box 71
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
The Old Lady Says Yes (Item NLA.MS-SAV001105) - Cassette-Box 72
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Getting to know Shakespeare (Item NLA.MS-SAV001107) - Cassette-Box 72
1 item, Phillips, Compact cassette tape
Side A: Bobby Lee (?) Coole Park (?) the Burrow (?) Side B: A.D 2000: The Asses' Tale (Item NLA.MS-SAV001108) - Cassette-Box 72
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Yeats - General, July 2000 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001111) - Cassette-Box 72
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Ovid Metamorphoses book 3 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001113) - Cassette-Box 72
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Yarns of early Australia- Peter O'Shaughnessy (Item NLA.MS-SAV001115) - Cassette-Box 72
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Side A: Wasteland/Magi/ Song of Simeon/ Marcus/ Cannibal/ Sle (?). Side B: Pru Frocks (Item NLA.MS-SAV001118) - Cassette-Box 73
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Side A: I will part 1, Side B: I will part 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001120) - Cassette-Box 73
1 item, Fuji, Compact cassette tapeSide A: Shakespeare - Part 2 1998. Side B: Notes: Prospero's Speech - cuts out (Item NLA.MS-SAV001122) - Cassette-Box 73
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Daniel O'Shaughnessy - Peta Symonds College (Item NLA.MS-SAV001124) - Cassette-Box 73
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape44 Audiocassettes, c. 1978-2003 (File)
John Mitchel's Holy Rage (Item NLA.MS-SAV001130) - Cassette-Box 74
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Side A: Gospel, Side B: (?) (Item NLA.MS-SAV001131) - Cassette-Box 74
1 item, AFGA, Compact cassette tape
Yeats. Tin (?) Ballylee. Cole Park. 1st version (Item NLA.MS-SAV001133) - Cassette-Box 74
1 item, BBC, Compact cassette tape
Ovid Metamorphoses. Raeburn (Item NLA.MS-SAV001136) - Cassette-Box 74
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Peter O'Shaughnessy reading 'Lon's Chesterfields Letters' (Item NLA.MS-SAV001137) - Cassette-Box 74
1 item, Compact cassette tape
Beckett Review, Beethoven Pastoral (Item NLA.MS-SAV001139) - Cassette-Box 74
1 item, EMI, Compact cassette tape
Yeats: Thor Ballylee. Coole Park (Item NLA.MS-SAV001140) - Cassette-Box 74
1 item, BBC, Compact cassette tape
Side A: Rehearsal Tape 2003 Side B: Will Performance (Item NLA.MS-SAV001144) - Cassette-Box 75
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
John Mitchel's Holy Rage (Item NLA.MS-SAV001151) - Cassette-Box 85
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Getting to know Shakespeare (2) (Item NLA.MS-SAV001153) - Cassette-Box 85
1 item, Sony, Compact cassette tape
End of Frank the Poet/Beckett/Joyce/Shaw/Yeats. Frank the Poet: while I live I'll crow (Item NLA.MS-SAV001155) - Cassette-Box 85
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Schubert: Liermann, Lindenbaum, Shepherd on the Rock. Interview BBC: talk with Pat Sexton (Item NLA.MS-SAV001156) - Cassette-Box 85
1 item, Pyral, Compact cassette tape
John Mitchel's Holy Rage/ Ballad (Item NLA.MS-SAV001157) - Cassette-Box 86
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Side A: Joseph Holt: Graveside Oration: 10/5/98 Side B: The Asses Tale- Master (Item NLA.MS-SAV001160) - Cassette-Box 86
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
The Old Lady Says Yes- part 2 A/B (Item NLA.MS-SAV001161) - Cassette-Box 86
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Side A: Pru Frock/ Portrait of Lady/ Burnt Norton/ East Cocker/ Dry Sulages Side B: T.S Eliot: 4 Quartets (Item NLA.MS-SAV001164) - Cassette-Box 86
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Discovering Shakespeare 1998 Part 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001165) - Cassette-Box 86
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Side A: An Ass Remembers/ A Christmas Carol. Side B: Poetry of W.B Yeats/ Peter O'Shaughnessy (Item NLA.MS-SAV001167) - Cassette-Box 86
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Side A: W. B. Yeats: Coole Park, etc. Late poems. Side B: Poetry read by Peter O'Shaughnessy (Item NLA.MS-SAV001168) - Cassette-Box 86
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tapeMiscellaneous loose papers, including news cuttings, reviews and music scores, correspondence, art valuations, scripts, curriculum vitae. Works included: Cora and the Men; Djinboon and the Bunyip; Diary of a Madman; Getting to Know Shalespeare; Television drafts - Off to the Diggins, n.d. (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc11.150)
Articles, clippings, poetry, artwork, valuations, scripts, typescripts of reports and other writings including partial autobiography, notes, n.d. (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc11.150)
Writings and correspondence, scripts, articles, lecture notes, film treatments including Troilus and Crisyde script and articles pertaining to Ned Kelly/'Red Kelly', c. 1990-1992 (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc11.150)
21 Audiocassettes, 1998; various (File)
Chesterfield - Def, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001172) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Side A: Part one of Discovering Shakespeare, Side B: Part one, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001173) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Chesterfield (67 1/2), 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001175) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Tales of Finbarre, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001176) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
W.B Yeats: Ballylee, Coole Park, Gent (?) the Brunner, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001178) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Side A: A Christmas Carol, Side B: Peter O'Shaughnessy, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001179) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, Hitachi, Compact cassette tape
Bardell V Patrick, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001180) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Krapps last tape from an abandoned work, while I live I'll crow, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001181) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, BBC, Compact cassette tape
Shakespeare: Rogues to (?), 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001514) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Getting to Know Shakespeare, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001515) - Cassette-Box 87
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Side A: Discovering Shakespeare part 2, Side B: Frank the Poet, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001517) - Cassette-Box 88
1 item, TDK, Compact cassette tape
Popular Poems, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001518) - Cassette-Box 88
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tape
Ovid - Metamorphoses, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001519) - Cassette-Box 88
1 item, Alpha Plus, Compact cassette tape
Hail and Hanewell - G Moore, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001521) - Cassette-Box 88
1 item, Compact cassette tape
Ovid - Metamorphoses, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001522) - Cassette-Box 88
1 item, Maxwell, Compact cassette tapeSundry' includes correspondence, clippings, library request forms, invitations, programs, notes, articles, drafts, 1962-1982 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc11.150)
Lyrics, sonnets, personal correspondence including with Barry Humphries, drafts, photographs (copies), writing, notes, c. 1954-2002 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc11.150)
Miscellaneous loose papers, including correspondence, litigation records and writings, c. 1989-1999 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc11.150)
Young Irelanders' research notes, scripts, treatments, correspondence and notes, 1976-1998 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc11.150)
Miscellaneous loose papers, including scripts and typescripts of writings, articles, clippings, correspondence, poetry, programs, sketches, 1964-1998 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc11.150)
Scripts, including 'The devil's general' and 'The Pope's balls' and 'Fabulous Journey of Mac Con Glin', n.d. (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc11.150)
Theatre reports, scripts, correspondence, clippings, typescript and handwritten drafts, poetry, academic papers, notes, c. 1940-1992 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc11.150)
Miscellaneous loose papers, including ephemera, correspondence, rehearsal drafts, clippings, scripts, 2002 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc11.150)
Miscellaneous loose papers, including news cuttings, some with photographs of O'Shaughnessy, programs, biographical information, some writing, 1953-1981 (File) - Box 10 (MS Acc11.150)
Correspondence, printouts from websites, handwritten notes, 1945-2002 (File) - Box 10 (MS Acc11.150)