This collection, which is part of the larger Constantine Curran/Helen Laird letter collection, contains material by and relating to James Joyce. It comprises 133 letters by or relating to James Joyce, members of his family, and others closely associated with him. The collection includes 25 letters from Joyce to Curran, letters from Joyce's brother Stanislaus, and correspondence from associates and friends of Joyce such as Paul Leon, Harriet Shaw Weaver, and Sylvia Beach.

Two printed music scores with words of songs composed to the memory of Barry, entitled 'To Kevin Barry' by Fred Cogley, and 'The Prison Grave of Kevin Barry' by Richard Clarke and Joseph Stanley.

Typescript of Joyce's version of 'Molly Brannigan'.

A collection of ballads, poetry, songs, and a prose tribute (in manuscript and typescript), written in heroic form in honour of Barry from various admirers in Ireland and Britain, including Padraig O'Hegarty, a Republican prisoner in Lincoln prison, England.