A collection of materials relating to the early 1970s bankruptcy of John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson, the corrupt and bankrupt architect whose famous exploits were brought to wider public attention by the play and subsequent television series, ‘Our Friends in the North.’ A singed copy of the play (from its author to Muir Hunter QC) sits in the Cork Archive. The Poulson Papers provide a unique insight into an early 1970s bankruptcy and aspects of national politics as well as the architecture commissioning process in the 1970s.