The Frank O’Connor Collection, Special Collections, Boole Library, UCC

Project:  The Mind of the Irish Writer.  Examining Frank O’Connor’s Praxis

The Archive:  University College Cork’s Boole Library is fortunate to hold a number of collections which contain original archival material relating to the Cork-born author Frank O’Connor. The holdings have been built up over a number of years, thanks to the generosity of a number of people, most especially Harriet O’Donovan Sheehy, Liadain O’Donovan, and Prof. John V. Kelleher.

The archive, comprising a number of individual collections, includes mss notebooks in which O’Connor drafted ideas for his stories, original letters, mss writings, annotated tss copies of the stories, correspondence with his literary agents and publishers, research notes and personal memorabilia.

The Library also holds the personal archives of some of O’Connor’s contemporaries, including his early mentor and short-story writer Daniel Corkery, life-long friend and Cork amateur actress Nancy McCarthy, and material relating to his fellow short-story writer, Sean O’ Faolain. UCC is also fortunate in holding the archive of the O’Connor scholar, Professor Ruth Sherry, whose work on compiling a complete O’Connor bibliography is being continued by the School of English at UCC 

(Hilary Lennon and Orla Murphy):

http://frankoconnor.ucc.ie/current_research_projects.php?teanga=)