Lifelines Papers,
1985-2006.
The Lifelines project began in 1985 when English teacher Niall MacMonagle suggested to his Fifth Year class in Wesley College to write to well-known personalities to choose a poem and write about why he/she likes their chosen poem in aid of charity. The students put together several anthologies of poems with contributors such as Seamus Heaney, Alan Hollinghurst, Christopher Ricks, Martin Amis, Ian McKellan and Ben Elton. This collection comprises of correspondence, promotional material, photographs, and posters relating to the Lifelines Project. Correspondents include Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, Kenneth Branagh, A. S. Byatt, Jilly Cooper, Emma Donoghue, Garret Fitzgerald, Brian Friel, Sir John Gielgud, Seamus Heaney, members of the British Royal family, Neil Jordan, Jeremy Irons, Michael Longley, Thomas Kinsella, Sue Miller, Iris Murdoch, Eugene McCabe, Graham Norton, Edna O’Brien, Joseph O’Connor, Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy, Annie Proulx, J. K. Rowling, Mary Robinson, Vikram Seth, Fiona Shaw, Margaret Thatcher, Sue Townsend, U2, Fay Weldon and others.
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Notes: | Physical description: 13 boxes. |
| Arrangement: | Fonds |
Correspondence with Wesley College, Dublin (B),
1985-2006.
| In Collection: | Lifelines Papers, 1985-2006. |
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| Description: | Correspondents include Robert Ballagh, Mary Banotti, John Banville, Vincent Banville, Lynn Barber, Leland Bardwell, Ben Barnes, Julian Barnes, Gerald Barry, Kevin Barry, Sebastian Barry, Bibi Baskin, John Bayley, Mary Beckett, John Behan, Ciarán Benson, Emmet Bergin, Sara Berkeley, Steven Berkoff, Agnes Bernelle, Wendell Berry, Pauline Bewick, Maeve Binchy, Mary Black, Kenneth Blackmore, Harold Bloom, Michael Blumenthal, Seóirse Bodley, Eavan Boland, Veronica Bolay, Brian Bourke, Ken Bourke, Brian Boydell, Claire Boylan, Alicia Boyle, Charles Brady, Conor Brady, Hugh R. Brady, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Branson, Cecily Brennan, Rory Brennan, Seamus Brennan, Joseph Brodsky, Anita Brookner, Denis Brown, Terence Brown, Noel Browne, John Bruton, Julie Burchill, Helen Lucy Burke, Barbara Bush, A.S. Byatt, Gay Byrne. |
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| Language: | English |
| Extent: | 11 folders (64 items) |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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MS 51,224/3-13
(Manuscripts Reading Room) |
| Rights: | Subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act 2000, the papers in this collection are in copyright. It is necessary to obtain the express permission of the copyright owner before reproducing any material from this collection. |
| Corporate Author: | Wesley College (Dublin, Ireland) |