David Ireland aggregated collection of papers

fonds

1958-2017

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Posters, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

9665878

David Ireland was born in 1927 in Lakemba in south-western Sydney, New South Wales. He is the author of ten novels, three of which have won the Miles Franklin Literary Award: 'The Unknown Industrial Prisoner', 'The Glass Canoe' and 'A Woman of the Future'. Ireland was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1981. In 1985 he received the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for his novel Archimedes and the Seagull. In 2013 he was presented with a NSW Premier's Literary Awards 'Special Award' which is presented ‘under exceptional circumstances ... either for an Australian literary work that is not readily covered by existing awards categories or in recognition of an Australian writer’s achievements generally’.

References
David Ireland, Text Publishing, http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/author/david-ireland/ (accessed 12/11/2013)

'NSW Premier’s Literary Awards winners announced': Bookseller and Publisher, http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/DetailPage.aspx?type=item&id=27197 (accessed 20/11/2013)

Collection 01: David Ireland papers, ca. 1958-1981

Collection 02: David Ireland literary manuscripts of Archimedes and the Seagle, 1981-1983

Collection 03: David Ireland further papers, 1958-1987

Collection 04: David Ireland further papers and pictorial material, 1971-1992

Collection 05: David Ireland further papers, 1962-1998

Collection 06: David Ireland further papers, 1950-1966, 2011-2012

Collection 07: David Ireland further papers, ca. 1950-2012

Collection 08: David Ireland further papers, 1934, 1958-2006

Collection 09: David Ireland further papers, ca. 2006-2010

Collection 10: David Ireland further papers, 1975-2017

Guide to the papers of David Ireland available online at: https://onesearch.library.uwa.edu.au/view/delivery/61UWA_INST/12364185840002101 or https://web.archive.org/web/20060821073441/findaid.library.uwa.edu.au/cgi-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/findaid/ireland/@Generic__BookView;cs=default;ts=default