LONGLEY, MICHAEL.
Michael Longley papers, 1960-2000
Michael Longley papers, 1960-2000
Emory University
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-727-6887
Fax: 404-727-0360
rose.library@emory.edu
Permanent link: http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zkmf
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Table of Contents
- Descriptive Summary 7 matches
- Administrative Information
- Collection Description 14 matches
- Selected Search Terms 1 match
- Index of Selected Correspondents
Description of Series
- Series 1: Correspondence, 1960-2000 7 matches
- Series 2: Writings by Michael Longley, circa 1966-2001 59 matches
- Series 3: Writings by others 36 matches
- Series 4: Printed material, 1952-2000 79 matches
- Series 5: Photographs 50 matches
- Series 6: Financial records 1 match
- Series 7: Miscellaneous personal files 7 matches
- Series 8: Belfast Group sheets 22 matches
- Series 9: Arts Council of Northern Ireland records, 1969-1991 23 matches
- Series 10: Subject files, 1988-2000 6 matches
- Series 11: Edna Longley papers, 1962-2000 9 matches
- Series 12: Collected material, 1975-1989 2 matches
Descriptive Summary
Creator: | Longley, Michael. |
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Title: | Michael Longley papers, 1960-2000 |
Call Number: | Manuscript Collection No. 744 |
Extent: | 40.25 linear feet (82 boxes) and 1 oversized papers box and 4 oversized papers folders (OP) |
Abstract: | Personal and literary papers of Irish poet Michael Longley consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, printed material, photographs, and records relating to the Arts Council of Nothern Ireland. Also includes some materials relating to literary critic Edna Longley. |
Language: | Materials entirely in English. |
Administrative Information
Restrictions on access
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Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.
Related Materials in This Repository
Seamus Heaney papers, Medbh McGuckian papers, Derek Mahon papers and Paul Muldoon papers.
Source
Purchase, 1992 with subsequent additions.
Citation
[after identification of item(s)], Michael Longley papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.
Processing
Processed by Gavin Drummond, Delmas Fellow, 2001
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Collection Description
Biographical Note
Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on July 27, 1939. He attended Malone Primary School and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, before going on to Trinity College, Dublin, where he read Classics. After graduating with honors in 1963, he held a variety of teaching positions in Blackrock, Dublin, London, and Belfast.
It was while teaching in Belfast that Longley first attended Philip Hobsbaum's informal gatherings of writers known simply as "the group." There he and other young writers-including Seamus Heaney, Arthur Terry, Jack Packenham, Harry Chambers-read their poems and short stories and helped to foster the work of a new generation of Irish writers.
Longley published his first collection of poems, Ten Poems, in 1966, followed by Three Regional Voices (1967), Room to Rhyme (with Seamus Heaney and David Hammond, 1968), and Secret Marriages (1968). His first major collection of poems, No Continuing City: Poems 1963-1968, was published in 1969 by Macmillan. Since the 1960's Michael Longley has published numerous collections of poems, among them An Exploded View (1973), Man Lying on the Wall (1976), The Echo Gate (1979), Gorse Fires (1991) and The Ghost Orchid (1995). His Selected Poems, 1963 - 1980 was published in 1981, followed by a later selected edition, Poems, 1963 - 1983 in 1985. After his poetic silence of the 1980s, he published Gorse Fires in 1991 to critical acclaim, followed by The Ghost Orchid (1995), Selected Poems (1998), and The Weather in Japan (2000).
Michael Longley has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Eric Gregory Award in 1965 and, more recently, the 1991 Whitbread Poetry Prize for Gorse Fires as well as the 2000 T.S. Eliot Prize for The Weather in Japan. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry in 2001. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and of Aosdána.
In addition to writing poetry, Longley has also edited collections of poems by Louis MacNeice and W.R. Rodgers, and from 1970 - 1991 he directed the literature programs of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 1994 Longley published a collection of autobiographical prose pieces under the title Tuppenny Stung.
He is married to the critic Edna Longley and lives in Belfast.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of personal and literary papers of Michael Longley from 1960-2000. The bulk of the collection contains drafts, typescripts, and proofs of Longley's poems, essays, and prose pieces and works of other authors, most notably Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. The collection also contains correspondence, radio and film scripts, printed material, financial records, records relating to Longley's work for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and papers of his wife, Edna Longley.
Arrangement Note
Organized into 12 series: (1) Correspondence, (2) Writings by Michael Longley, (3) Writings by others, (4) Printed material, (5) Photographs, (6) Financial records, (7) Miscellaneous personal files, (8) Belfast Group sheets, (9) Arts Council of Northern Ireland records, (10) Subject files, (11) Edna Longley papers, and (12) Collected material.
Finding Aid Note
Index to selected correspondents in Series 1 is available for letters up to 1992.
Selected Search Terms
Personal Names
- Adcock, Fleur.
- Boland, Eavan.
- Carson, Ciaran, 1948-
- Dunn, Douglas.
- Fallon, Peter, 1951-
- Friel, Brian.
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-
- Hobsbaum, Philip.
- Johnson, Jennifer, 1930-
- McGuckian, Medbh, 1950-
- Longley, Edna.
- Mahon, Derek, 1941-
- Montague, John.
- Muldoon, Paul.
- Ormsby, Frank, 1947-
- Raine, Craig.
- Simmons, James, 1933-
- Thwaite, Anthony.
Corporate Names
Topical Terms
- Arts, Irish.
- Belfast Group.
- English poetry--Irish authors--20th century.
- Irish poetry--20th century.
- Irish poetry--History and criticism.
- Poets, Irish--20th century.
- Women college teachers--Ireland.
- Women critics--Ireland.
Geographic Names
Form/Genre Terms
Occupation
Description of Series
- Series 1: Correspondence, 1960-2000 7 matches
- Series 2: Writings by Michael Longley, circa 1966-2001 59 matches
- Subseries 2.1: Poems,circa 1968-2000 10 matches
- Subseries 2.2: Prose 2 matches
- Subseries 2.3: Radio and film scripts, 1966-1990 22 matches
- Subseries 2.4: Works edited by Michael Longley, 1988-2001 2 matches
- Subseries 2.5: Interviews with Michael Longley, circa 1980-2001 2 matches
- Subseries 2.6: Notebooks
- Series 3: Writings by others 36 matches
- Subseries 3.1: Poetry 5 matches
- Subseries 3.2: Essays on Michael Longley 24 matches
- Subseries 3.3: Other writings 5 matches
- Series 4: Printed material, 1952-2000 79 matches
- Series 5: Photographs 50 matches
- Series 6: Financial records 1 match
- Series 7: Miscellaneous personal files 7 matches
- Series 8: Belfast Group sheets 22 matches
- Series 9: Arts Council of Northern Ireland records, 1969-1991 23 matches
- Series 10: Subject files, 1988-2000 6 matches
- Series 11: Edna Longley papers, 1962-2000 9 matches
- Series 12: Collected material, 1975-1989 2 matches