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Series II: Conor Cruise O'Brien's Manuscripts

Language of Materials

English.

Scope and Contents

Boxes 6 and 7 contain only those manuscripts written by Conor Cruise O'Brien. These consist of two plays, two books, plus various articles and reviews. This series includes only a small portion of O'Brien's work to date.

"Murderous Angels" (a political play), undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Nations as Sacred Drama: Typescript, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Nations as Sacred Drama: Mimeograph copy, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Nations as Sacred Drama: Handwritten copy, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 5-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Nations as Sacred Drama: Typescript and typed carbon sections of the manuscript, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Nations as Sacred Drama: Notebook of handwritten notes, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Solome and the Wild Man" or "The Quiet Man of Galalean", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Albert Camus and "The Embers of Easter 1916-1966", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Politics in West Africa;" "Christmas Books--The Last of the Highest?;" "Autonomy and Academic Freedom in Britain and Africa;" "Address to the UN;" "Nknumah--The Man I knew;" "A Negatiator on Negotiation", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"On Yeats;" "Black Revolutionary;" "Churchill and Macmillan;" "Universities: British, Indian, African;" "A Study in the Ecology of Higher Education;" "Struggles for Africa;" "Partisan Review Questionnaire", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Politics and Drama as Politics;" "The Writer and the Power Structure;" "Albert Schweitzer and Contemporary Africa;" "The Function and Many Roles of the Critic", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"The Church of the People;" "Communists and Anti-Communists;" "A People Condemned;" "Beware of Melancholy;" "Burke Annotation;" "Morality of Scholarship;" "Satirical Pastoral;" "Anaylsis as Symptoms;" "Princeton Colloquim;" "Marx and History", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"The Calculus of Pain, of Peace, and Prestige;" "The Intellectuals and McCarthy;" "A Combined Operation: The End of Ideology Debate;" "Accessories to the Fact: The Warren Commission, Authorities and the Report;" "King Herod Explains;" "Epilogue: Illusions and Realities of Non-Alignment", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Art is Man's Nature: Burke, Yeats and Conservative Imagination;" "The United Nations and World Social Revolution;" "Edmund Burke;" "Tribe Nation State;" "Ireland at the United Nations", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Intellectuals, Public Opinion and International Relations", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Language of Materials

English.

"Politics and Yeats;" "Burke and Marx;" "Soldiers and Politics;" "At Home in Hell;" "Where Orange is White;" "Politics and Morality of Scholarship", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Order, Justice and Revolution;" "Racial Conflict--Peaceful Resolution;" "After Manila;" "Modern Language Association--Address;" "The United States, The United Nations and Vietnam;" "Address to English Speaking Union in Support of Senator McCarthy for President;" "The UN as a Political Institution;" "The UN in Real Life;" "African Unity;" "The Future of African Democracy;" "African Perspectives", undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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