Tracy (Robert) Papers

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Tracy (Robert) Papers

BANC MSS 2016/196

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Course materials, English Department materials, People's Park clippings approximately 1950-1995

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Research and writing, B-M approximately 1950-1996

Scope and Contents

Mostly Tracy's work on Irish literature, including materials on Brian Friel, Bram Stoker, and Brian Moore.

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Research and writing, M-Z approximately 1950-1997

Scope and Contents

Mostly Tracy's work on Irish literature, including materials on Paul Muldoon, Flann O'Brien, Julia O'Faolain, Colm Toibin, William Trevor, and William Butler Yeats.

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Robert Tracy materials on Seamus Heaney approximately 1970-2015

Scope and Contents

Research materials, press, drafts relating to Tracy's work on Heaney.

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Seamus and Marie Heaney correspondence and signed poems 1980-2015

Scope and Contents

Letters/cards from Seamus Heaney and Marie Heaney as well as three signed poems, January God, A Drink of Water, and The Tollund Man (which is handwritten).

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Research and writing approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, research materials, etc., including files on the Bachall Isa, Artaud, Cuchulain, James Joyce, St. Patrick, Imrama (Irish odysseys), Ces Noínden Ulad, 2007 Celtic Colloquium, George Petrie, Tain Prophets, Tristia.

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Research and writing approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, research materials, etc., including files on Tristia, Osip Mendelstam, Gaelic origins, Charles Vallencey, Celticism.

carton 7

Research and writing approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, research materials, etc., including files on William Butler Yeats, Anthony Trollope, and Anton Chekhov, and Clontarf, Ireland.

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Research notebooks, genealogy approximately 1950-2013

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Research notes and typescript drafts approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Drafts include works on Dickens, modern Irish writers, anthology of 18th- and 19th- century poetry (Romantic poets), and other topics.

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Research notes and typescript drafts approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Drafts include anthology of 18th- and 19th- century poetry (Romantic poets) (continued), materials on some Irish Studies events, a file on Lenny Bruce, reviews of Unappeasable Host, typescript of Artful Voyeurs: Writing Ireland, 1960-1985. Also included is an unpublished typescript draft of Joan Trodden Keefe's Churchyard Clay.

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Assorted typescripts and other materials (many unidentified) approximately 1950-2013

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Charles Dickens and other Victorian literature research, course, and conference materials (including some correspondence) approximately 1950-2013

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Charles Dickens and other Victorian literature research, course, and conference materials (including some correspondence) approximately 1950-2013

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Course materials approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Mostly course materials; some materials from Fromm Institute courses.

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Drafts, professional papers, UC materials, personal papers approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous drafts, Irish topics, conference talks, correspondence, theater collection, resume, materials relating to Tracy's Irish citizenship, genealogy.

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Drafts of articles, notebooks approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Research and writing; articles and papers (some unpublished) on Julia O'Faolain, William Trevor, Brian Moore, and others; Tracy's childhood and college notebooks (from Boston College and Harvard notebooks); some materials on Chekhov.

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Notebooks and other materials approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

College and UC Berkeley notebooks, a small amount of correspondence, materials regarding Harvard Summer School's 1950 Conference on The Defense of Poetry.

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Binders of essays, possibly for anthologies approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Binder 1-2 (two copies): written essays on the World War I poets, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Edwin Muir. Binder 3: written essays on Victorian literature, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Henry Newman, William Barnes, John Stuart Mill, Alfred Tennyson. Binder 4-5: written essays (2 copies) on 20th century poetry, William Butler Years, John Millington Synge, E.M. Forster. Binder 6: written essays on street ballads, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Meredith, Lewis Carroll, James Thomson, William Morris, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Thomas Hardy. Binder 7: typescript on Chekhov.

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Binders of essays, possibly for anthologies approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Binder 8: written essays on T.S. Eliot, Robert Graves, and W.H. Auden. Binder 9: written essays on Edward Fitzgerald, Robert Browning, John Ruskin, Arthur Hugh Clough, Matthew Arnold, and Coventry Patmore. Binder 10: written essays on Gerard Manley Hopkins, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and Max Beerbohm. Binder 11: written essays on Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, and Ted Hughes. Binder 12: written essays on Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, Patrick Kavanagh, F.T. Prince, Thomas Blackburn, Herbert Lomas, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bernard Kops, Edwin Brock, Charles Tomlinson, Nathaniel Tarn, Gael Turnbull, Thom Gunn, John Montague, Roy Fisher, Jon Silkin, Geoffrey Hill, Adrian Henri, Adrian Mitchell, Dom Moraes, Seamus Heaney, and Pete Brown.

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Posters and broadsides approximately 1950-2013

Scope and Contents

Relating to Seamus Heaney as well as UC Berkeley events (English Department and general).

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