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File with writings and articles by Carolyn Swift submitted to the '3-0-1' radio programme on RTÉ Radio, which were then read out and broadcast. The programme is a forerunner to the later programme 'Sunday Miscellany', to which Swift was also a regular contributor.
File includes correspondence between Swift and the programme series editor, John Skehan, discussing topics for Swift's writing and broadcast details of accepted pieces; Louise Redmond, RTÉ Radio team; Michael Littleton, Head of Features and Current Affairs, RTÉ; Letter from Swift to Cathal O'Griofa as the new editor of 3-0-1 and asking for clarity on acceptance of recent pieces (10 Feb 1975);
and letters from listeners to Swift's writing on radio - John Small, White's Hotel, Wexford; Thomas Ralph, Regular Dublin Operative Coopers' Society, Dublin;

Typed scripts/articles by Swift for 3-0-1 programme include:
The Anarchy of Driving
The Egestorff Museum
Our Empire
Cooking By Volcano
Back to the Pony and Trap
Plus Ca Change
Doctor's Don't Differ on Dieting
One Way Streets in Wexford
Visual Illiteracy
The Memorial Park
Do You Believe in Ghosts
Superstition, Saints, and Suntan
Vanishing Dublin
The Antique Department
Are We Changed by Our Clothes?
Say It With Flowers
Cute Kiddies
My Pen Pal
The Souls of Old Dublin

Files relating to A Cruel Fondness by James Douglas. Includes script of the play edited by Carolyn Swift, and also final broadcast script, with list of production crew and cast members. Produced by Chloe Gibson for RTÉ.
File 2 includes typescript carbon copies of scripts of various parts and scenes from A Cruel Fondness, with edits and annotation by Swift. Also press cuttings of reviews (with press photos) about the broadcast on RTÉ television.

Files of scripts relating to a play written by Niall Sheridan, "A Dog's Life", with script edited by Carolyn Swift and produced by Chloe Gibson for RTÉ. Early draft of script carries a cover note of being adapted for television by Philip Rooney.

File 1 includes final broadcast script with cover page of cast and production crew list; a broadcast schedule for RTÉ drama in 1971/1973; carbon copy of letter by Swift to [Sheridan] outlining her work on the script, then called in an early draft "Seven Men and a Dog".

Files 2-4 includes further typescripts at final broadcast phase and of earlier draft scripts of the play, all heavily annotated by hand and edited by Carolyn Swift.

Typed script, with annotation/stage directions for sketch "A Lesson in Stage Technique"', produced by the Pike Theatre Dublin as part of the Late Night Follies.

File with three typescripts for a television play by Carolyn Swift and James Douglas, entitled "A Nightdress for Nora", with note that it is an hour long and submitted to RTÉ for consideration.

Typed script, with annotation/stage directions for sketch "A Shot in the Dark", produced by the Pike Theatre Dublin as part of the Late Night Follies.

Typed bound copy of 'A Sort of Play' by Mary Kenny. No production details noted.

Typed script, with annotation/stage directions for sketch "A Speech From the Dock"', produced by the Pike Theatre Dublin as part of the Late Night Follies.

Typed script, with annotation/stage directions for sketch "A Treasure Hunt", produced by the Pike Theatre Dublin as part of the Late Night Follies. Five scripts present.

File relating to the dramatisation of "A Turn For a Neighbour" by Carolyn Swift and based on the original short story by Brendan Behan. It was designed for broadcast on RTÉ television. Includes script of the adaptation by Swift; a contract and receipt of payment made to Swift with RTÉ for work on the adaptation (1969); letters between Carolyn Swift, Jim Plunkett, RTÉ, and Brian Armstrong of Granada TV, Manchester, discussing the broadcast of the Behan story adapted by Swift and also outlines for further adaptations from Irish short stories, including "An Outing" from "The Love Object" by Edna O'Brien.