MS 2272; MS Acc03.282; MS Acc09.038; .MS Acc11.099; MS Acc11.150
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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 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...
Magnetic 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
'Diary of a Madman' (Item NLA.MS-SAV004306) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
Side 1: 'Elvira <Madigan' by Mozart. Side 2: Egmont, Cant? Reading 'Mary Queen of Scots' (Item NLA.MS-SAV004307) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
Side 1: Yeats, Beckett. Side 2: 'Purgatory', 2 Beckett Pieces?; Trout (Item NLA.MS-SAV004308) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
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
[unlabelled audio reel] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004310) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
[unlabelled audio reel] (Item NLA.MS-SAV004311) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
Sibelius E? Saga? Symphony 6 ??? (Item NLA.MS-SAV004312) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
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
Actual 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
Anna Livia's Daughter - Sons (Item NLA.MS-SAV004315) - Cassette-Box 219
Discovering Shakespeare Part 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004317) - Cassette-Box 219
Mono L
A. Discovering Shakespeare Part 2. B. Shakespeare end./Krapps Last Tape (Beckett) (Item NLA.MS-SAV004318) - Cassette-Box 219
Mono 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
A. While I live I'll crow - Frank the poetB. Yeats - General, 1/07/2000 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004320) - Cassette-Box 219
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
Mono
A. Footfalls - Samuel Beckett Dublin,B. Schubert Quintet, Oct. 1978 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004322) - Cassette-Box 220
Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (Item NLA.MS-SAV004323) - Cassette-Box 220
W B Yeats 'Coole Park', 'Thoor Ballylee', 'The Burren', 1999 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004324) - Cassette-Box 220
Side 1: 'Will' Pt 1 Broadcast Radio Telfis Eire. 'Will' Pt 2., 1/04/1978 (Item NLA.MS-SAV004325) - Cassette-Box 220
This 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
Notes included
Side A: 'Troilus and Cressida' Part 2. Side B: Alternative recording of the end (Item NLA.MS-SAV004327) - Cassette-Box 220
Side A: 'Troilus and Cressida' Part 1 and 2. 'He who leads the bear'. (Item NLA.MS-SAV004328) - Cassette-Box 220
Side : W B Yeats 'Crazy Jane', 'Prayer for my Daughter', 'The Tower' poems (Item NLA.MS-SAV004329) - Cassette-Box 220
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
Side A: Excerpt 'The Pope's Balls'., Side B: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' (Item NLA.MS-SAV004331) - Cassette-Box 220
Class 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
Mozart No 38 'The Music Makers' (Item NLA.MS-SAV013563) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
St John's Passion (Item NLA.MS-SAV013564) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
Ravel Daphnis et Chloe (Item NLA.MS-SAV013565) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
Krapps Last Tape (Item NLA.MS-SAV013566) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
Fidelio Pt 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013567) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
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
Kenneth Slessor poetry (Item NLA.MS-SAV013569) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
Restless Years Reel 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013570) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
1/2 tape
Bernard Shaw on Love and War (Item NLA.MS-SAV013571) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
3 and 3/4
[not marked] (Item NLA.MS-SAV013572) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
[not marked] (Item NLA.MS-SAV013573) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
K' on tape. Case says 'Clear Tape' (Item NLA.MS-SAV013574) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-047
Obelius Tempest Swan. Illegible (Item NLA.MS-SAV013092) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
No Information (Item NLA.MS-SAV013095) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
No Information (Item NLA.MS-SAV013096) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
No information (Item NLA.MS-SAV013097) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
Five visions of Captain Cook (Item NLA.MS-SAV013236) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
More information on casing
Noel Raynes. Thatcher. The mangoes Fine. Jolly Puddlers Song (Item NLA.MS-SAV013237) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
No information (Item NLA.MS-SAV013238) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
Frank O'Brien interview, R Iredale at the end of the side. (Item NLA.MS-SAV013239) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
The Flute 1 + 5. J.M> Thomson (Item NLA.MS-SAV013240) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
Concert by Gabrielli. Introduction of Allegro (?) Ravel (Item NLA.MS-SAV013241) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-046
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
Lady with the Toy Dog. No 373. Overlander (Item NLA.MS-SAV013819) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
More information on reel.
War Effects. Very Good. Retain. (Item NLA.MS-SAV013820) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
Enigma Variations-Elexar. Dramatic Music of Purcell (Item NLA.MS-SAV013821) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
Hamlet- Gielgud 1948, 1948 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013822) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
A little Love the Angels. Compliant Love (Item NLA.MS-SAV013823) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
Yeats original. Work print (Item NLA.MS-SAV013824) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
Duration 9.38
Originals Side 1 Yeats, Side 2 Beckett (Item NLA.MS-SAV013825) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
Beckett, Yeats-Faulty Recording Waterloo. University of Waterloo. Linguaphone. Tape B Frenzy. (Item NLA.MS-SAV013826) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-048
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.
44 Audiocassettes, c. 1978-2004 (File)
Yeats: dreaming of the bones. Oedipus at Colonnus (Item NLA.MS-SAV001086) - Cassette-Box 70
Side A: Beckett Premiers Dublin 1978. Side B: Yeats 1st 1/2, 1978 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001087) - Cassette-Box 70
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
Rock'n Reel Revve, 1958 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001089) - Cassette-Box 71
Yeats - Coole (Item NLA.MS-SAV001090) - Cassette-Box 71
John Mitchel: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? (Item NLA.MS-SAV001091) - Cassette-Box 71
Side A:Bernard Shaw: Marriage, Divorce. Side B: While I live I'll crow. Frank the Poet (Item NLA.MS-SAV001092) - Cassette-Box 71
Bernard Shaw: Woman, Marriage, Divorce (Item NLA.MS-SAV001093) - Cassette-Box 71
Yeats 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001094) - Cassette-Box 71
King Lear (Item NLA.MS-SAV001095) - Cassette-Box 71
Why should hot old men be mad? (Item NLA.MS-SAV001096) - Cassette-Box 71
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
Restless Years (Item NLA.MS-SAV001098) - Cassette-Box 71
Holt ABC (Item NLA.MS-SAV001099) - Cassette-Box 71
Cellagh and Tales of Guaire (Item NLA.MS-SAV001100) - Cassette-Box 71
Ovid Metamorphoses (Item NLA.MS-SAV001101) - Cassette-Box 71
Frank the Poet (Item NLA.MS-SAV001102) - Cassette-Box 72
W. B. Yeats (Item NLA.MS-SAV001103) - Cassette-Box 72
Ovid Odyssey (Item NLA.MS-SAV001104) - Cassette-Box 72
The Old Lady Says Yes (Item NLA.MS-SAV001105) - Cassette-Box 72
Notes: King Lear, Yeats (Item NLA.MS-SAV001106) - Cassette-Box 72
Getting to know Shakespeare (Item NLA.MS-SAV001107) - Cassette-Box 72
Side A: Bobby Lee (?) Coole Park (?) the Burrow (?) Side B: A.D 2000: The Asses' Tale (Item NLA.MS-SAV001108) - Cassette-Box 72
Chesterfield 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001109) - Cassette-Box 72
John Mitchel: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? (Item NLA.MS-SAV001110) - Cassette-Box 72
Yeats - General, July 2000 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001111) - Cassette-Box 72
Gobel O'Glug (Item NLA.MS-SAV001112) - Cassette-Box 72
Ovid Metamorphoses book 3 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001113) - Cassette-Box 72
Metamorphoses (Item NLA.MS-SAV001114) - Cassette-Box 72
Yarns of early Australia- Peter O'Shaughnessy (Item NLA.MS-SAV001115) - Cassette-Box 72
Lanson (Item NLA.MS-SAV001116) - Cassette-Box 73
Yeats, 2004 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001117) - Cassette-Box 73
Side A: Wasteland/Magi/ Song of Simeon/ Marcus/ Cannibal/ Sle (?). Side B: Pru Frocks (Item NLA.MS-SAV001118) - Cassette-Box 73
W.B Yeats Poetry (Item NLA.MS-SAV001119) - Cassette-Box 73
Side A: I will part 1, Side B: I will part 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001120) - Cassette-Box 73
Hail and Farwell - G. Moore (Item NLA.MS-SAV001121) - Cassette-Box 73
Beckett Reeve (Item NLA.MS-SAV001123) - Cassette-Box 73
Daniel O'Shaughnessy - Peta Symonds College (Item NLA.MS-SAV001124) - Cassette-Box 73
Will. RTE 1978 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001125) - Cassette-Box 73
John Mitchel's Holy Rage (Item NLA.MS-SAV001126) - Cassette-Box 73
The Gardens of Hell (Item NLA.MS-SAV001127) - Cassette-Box 73
Side A: Will part 1 Side B: Will part 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001128) - Cassette-Box 73
44 Audiocassettes, c. 1978-2003 (File)
Irish Poetry (Item NLA.MS-SAV001129) - Cassette-Box 74
John Mitchel's Holy Rage (Item NLA.MS-SAV001130) - Cassette-Box 74
Side A: Gospel, Side B: (?) (Item NLA.MS-SAV001131) - Cassette-Box 74
S. John (Item NLA.MS-SAV001132) - Cassette-Box 74
Yeats. Tin (?) Ballylee. Cole Park. 1st version (Item NLA.MS-SAV001133) - Cassette-Box 74
Retain (Item NLA.MS-SAV001134) - Cassette-Box 74
Olivier interviews (Item NLA.MS-SAV001135) - Cassette-Box 74
Ovid Metamorphoses. Raeburn (Item NLA.MS-SAV001136) - Cassette-Box 74
Peter O'Shaughnessy reading 'Lon's Chesterfields Letters' (Item NLA.MS-SAV001137) - Cassette-Box 74
Matthew 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001138) - Cassette-Box 74
Beckett Review, Beethoven Pastoral (Item NLA.MS-SAV001139) - Cassette-Box 74
Yeats: Thor Ballylee. Coole Park (Item NLA.MS-SAV001140) - Cassette-Box 74
Yeats (Item NLA.MS-SAV001141) - Cassette-Box 74
Luke 2 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001142) - Cassette-Box 75
Shakespeare Sonnets (Item NLA.MS-SAV001143) - Cassette-Box 75
Side A: Rehearsal Tape 2003 Side B: Will Performance (Item NLA.MS-SAV001144) - Cassette-Box 75
Will Shakespeare (Item NLA.MS-SAV001145) - Cassette-Box 75
Joseph Holt talks (Item NLA.MS-SAV001146) - Cassette-Box 75
Hail and Farewell (Item NLA.MS-SAV001147) - Cassette-Box 75
Heidelberg (Item NLA.MS-SAV001148) - Cassette-Box 75
T. S. Elliot (Item NLA.MS-SAV001149) - Cassette-Box 75
The Gardens of Hell (Item NLA.MS-SAV001150) - Cassette-Box 75
John Mitchel's Holy Rage (Item NLA.MS-SAV001151) - Cassette-Box 85
[untitled] (Item NLA.MS-SAV001152) - Cassette-Box 85
Getting to know Shakespeare (2) (Item NLA.MS-SAV001153) - Cassette-Box 85
An Ass Remembers on the Assess Tale (Item NLA.MS-SAV001154) - Cassette-Box 85
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
Schubert: Liermann, Lindenbaum, Shepherd on the Rock. Interview BBC: talk with Pat Sexton (Item NLA.MS-SAV001156) - Cassette-Box 85
John Mitchel's Holy Rage/ Ballad (Item NLA.MS-SAV001157) - Cassette-Box 86
My Life as Me (Item NLA.MS-SAV001158) - Cassette-Box 86
George Moore (Item NLA.MS-SAV001159) - Cassette-Box 86
Side A: Joseph Holt: Graveside Oration: 10/5/98 Side B: The Asses Tale- Master (Item NLA.MS-SAV001160) - Cassette-Box 86
The Old Lady Says Yes- part 2 A/B (Item NLA.MS-SAV001161) - Cassette-Box 86
Con RTE (Item NLA.MS-SAV001162) - Cassette-Box 86
T. S. Elliot (Item NLA.MS-SAV001163) - Cassette-Box 86
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
Discovering Shakespeare 1998 Part 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001165) - Cassette-Box 86
Daniel - Interview, Pete Syrnds (Item NLA.MS-SAV001166) - Cassette-Box 86
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
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
Will RTE Sonnets, Broadcast Dublin, 1978 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001169) - Cassette-Box 86
Will (1) (Item NLA.MS-SAV001170) - Cassette-Box 86
21 Audiocassettes, 1998; various (File)
Golding, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001171) - Cassette-Box 87
Chesterfield - Def, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001172) - Cassette-Box 87
Side A: Part one of Discovering Shakespeare, Side B: Part one, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001173) - Cassette-Box 87
Chesterfield, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001174) - Cassette-Box 87
Chesterfield (67 1/2), 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001175) - Cassette-Box 87
Tales of Finbarre, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001176) - Cassette-Box 87
Frank the Poet, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001177) - Cassette-Box 87
W.B Yeats: Ballylee, Coole Park, Gent (?) the Brunner, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001178) - Cassette-Box 87
Side A: A Christmas Carol, Side B: Peter O'Shaughnessy, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001179) - Cassette-Box 87
Bardell V Patrick, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001180) - Cassette-Box 87
Krapps last tape from an abandoned work, while I live I'll crow, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001181) - Cassette-Box 87
Shakespeare: Rogues to (?), 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001514) - Cassette-Box 87
Getting to Know Shakespeare, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001515) - Cassette-Box 87
Restless Years, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001516) - Cassette-Box 87
Side A: Discovering Shakespeare part 2, Side B: Frank the Poet, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001517) - Cassette-Box 88
Popular Poems, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001518) - Cassette-Box 88
Ovid - Metamorphoses, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001519) - Cassette-Box 88
Tintare, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001520) - Cassette-Box 88
Hail and Hanewell - G Moore, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001521) - Cassette-Box 88
Ovid - Metamorphoses, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001522) - Cassette-Box 88
Con and the Ansel (?) read by Peter O'Shaughnessy, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001523) - Cassette-Box 88
1. Will the real Joseph Holt... 2. Sir Henry Browne Hayes 3. Frank the Poet, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001524) - Cassette-Box 88
Reel-to-reel audio tape, n.d. (File)
Magnetophonband LG535 540m/1800ft.
You wouldn't need afford (?) (Item NLA.MS-SAV001525) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-002
Untitled reel to reel audio tape (Item NLA.MS-SAV003977) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-018
