Collection of typescripts in a folder marked “Complete file: Belfast Creative Writing Group 1963-6”. A note on the folder states “Gift of Mr. Hobsbaum, creator of C.W.G.).
Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005) was a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Queen’s University Belfast from 1962 to 1966. During that period he established the Belfast Creative Writing Group, or “The Group”. Members included James Simmons, Stewart Parker, Bernard McClaverty, Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney. The folder contains 67 discrete items, all but one are typescripts by single authors.