Collection 01: David Ireland papers, ca. 1958-1981

MLMSS 3959
MLMSS 3959/vols. 30X, 43X, 56X, 58X-59X, 62X

sub-fonds

ca. 1958-1981

Textual Records, Clippings, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

413062

3.24 metres of textual material (20 volumes and 6 outsize volumes, 33 boxes, 6 folders) - manuscript, typescript, clippings, printed

Literary papers, ca.1958-1981, being various typescript copies of the play 'Image in the clay', originally entitled 'Heirs of the dead heart', with related material, ca.1958-ca.1964; and various drafts, galley proofs, completed typescript versions and related material of the following novels: 'The chantic bird', ca.1964-1968; 'The unknown industrial prisoner', 1966-1971, including letters from Douglas Alexander Stewart, 1971; 'The flesheaters', ca.1969-ca.1972; 'Burn', ca.196--ca.1976; 'The glass canoe', ca.1970-1976; 'A woman of the future', ca.1974-1981; and 'City of women', ca.197--ca.1981

Click here to see extended guide to this collection in Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts - onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au/view/delivery/61UWA_INST/12364185840002101

Further papers of David Ireland are located at MLMSS 4233; MLMSS 4233 ADD-ON 1824; MLMSS 4233 ADD-ON 2017; MLMSS 4233 ADD-ON 2147. Pictorial material is located at Pic.Acc.6431. Oral history tapes are located at MLOH 29