Personal papers of one of the best-loved cultural figures in Ulster and Ireland in the 1930s-60s. A prolific travel writer, actor, filmmaker and recorded singer, this large collection of miscellanea belonging to Hayward (1892-1964) contains travel notebooks, music and poetry notes, photographs, manuscripts, essays, interviews and research, notes on Ulster countryside, notes on Ulster humour, notes on Ulster food, occasion cards, invites, correspondence from a wide array of contacts, and unique copies of his commercial films. Also contained within this archive are books, letters and ephemera belonging to Mrs Dorothy Hayward. Detailed contents (not comprehensive): Correspondence including letters to Dorothy and Richard Hayward and family, including brother Charles. Correspondents include actress Kay Walsh, author Dorothea Donn-Byrne, children and grandchildren. On subjects such as the deaths of Elma and Richard, and his research and film work; miscellaneous notes on Burns’ Night, archaeology, geology, dialect, speech, decline of the Irish language, music, poetry, Garvey sherry, Lartigue, Cranmore trees; cards, notebooks and illustrations of the Ulster countryside including Black Pigs Dyke; maps including Larne, Omagh and the salt mine in Eden, Co. Antrim; poems to family, and titles such as ‘Dash off Dick’; performance leaflets and flyers including for a Raymond Piper exhibition; photographs and negatives of locations, Richard at various stages in life, signed actor profile pictures and Belfast Naturalists Field Club excursions; manuscripts and writings including: ‘Sugarhouse Entry’, ‘The History and Humour of Ulster Dialect’, ‘The Story of the Irish Harp’, ‘The Biography of a College’, ‘USA Journey’, ‘An Irishman meets New York’, ‘View from Atlantis’, ‘Friar’s Bush’, ‘An American Journey’, ‘Protestant Church in Spain’, ‘Sherry, The Golden Bounty of Spain’, ‘The Wine of Falstaff’, ‘Government House, Hillsborough’, ‘Saint Patrick’s Day’, ‘Before the Folk-Tale’, ‘Castle Upton’, ‘The Dutch Windmill’, ‘Books that have Influenced Me’, ‘The Towns of Ulster: Newtownards’, ‘Ulster Dialect’, ‘Ballads, Songs and Snatches’, ‘P.E.N. Dinner March 1964’ ‘My Home Town, Belfast’, ‘Irish Folksong’, ‘Belfast Through the Ages’, ‘Salt of the Earth’, ‘Wait Till I Tell You’, ‘A Donegal Ceilidhe’, ‘Pig n Chicken Roadhouse’; essays on folklore and towns; interviews including Ernest Strathdee; book research and drafts including ‘The World of Sherry’ (Alexis Lichine), ‘Four Shots from Down’ (Bigger), ‘An Excursion to the Isle of Man (Belfast Naturalists Field Club), ‘Who was Nicholas Dell?’ (John H. Pierse), ‘The Writer and Semantics: Historical Survey’ (Professor I. A. Richards); study notes for series, ‘This is Ireland’, ‘Houses of Ulster’ and a variety of miscellanea including a vaccination card for smallpox, postcards, Cunard White Star passenger list, Christmas cards, sympathy cards, dinner programmes, wedding invitations, business cards, magazines, invites to award of honorary insignia of a Capataz de Honor (Fino San Patricio / Garvey bodegas), wine guides, conferment of the Freedom of the City of Belfast leaflet, Sodality of the Sacred Heart membership card, sweet and chocolate wrappers.
