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Files with typed CVs and career profiles by Carolyn Swift. These include lists of credits for writing, editing, and production of works for theatre, radio, and television, and print publications in novels, books, and media. Also has information on personal biography through her life.

Printed booklet from memorial service for Carolyn Swift held at St. Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road, Dublin 4, with list of order of service. Also handwritten 'Get Well' cards from flowers sent to Swift; Photocopy of obituary for Swift published in the Irish Times and the Sunday Independent (2002); Press listing for exhibition in tribute to Swift held at the Dublin Writers Museum; Also card from memorial service for The Reverend Canon Walter C. Simpson, St. Bartholomew's Church, Dublin, 15 Nov 1960 (Swift's father in law, father of Alan Simpson); menu from celebratory dinner for the 25th wedding anniversary of Swift's parents, Victoria Halls, London, 6 Apr 1946. Menu from celebratory dinner for the 50th wedding anniversary of Swift's grandparents, 4 Oct 1949, Savoy Hotel, London. Also exhibition catalogue for paintings and drawings by Grainne Simpson, daughter of Swift at Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London, 1980.
Change of address slip with update of Swift's address on Leeson Street from 24 May 1980.

Pencil sketch of Carolyn Swift by artist named as [John Hayes]. Image is side profile, Swift wearing glasses. Reverse includes pencil sketch by same artist of unnamed male figure.

Files of correspondence, press cuttings, personal documents, and related items relating to the life and work of Carolyn Swift.

File of postcards sent to Carolyn Swift from friends and family, also invitations sent to Swift to various events and book/exhibition launches.

Hardback notebook with notes by Carolyn Swift relating to her work in light entertainment television production at RTÉ, Dublin.

Letters to Carolyn Swift detailing a school reunion and a fundraising campaign to develop Moira House School, Eastbourne, a former school of Swift's. Booklet about the history of the school and the development plans included.

File of writings and articles by Carolyn Swift about the script of The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan and her work in editing and working on the script. Article "The Script of The Quare Fellow" appears in the Abbey Theatre show programme from production in August 1969. Another typed version in the file is entitled "Extract from The Quare Fellow" by Brendan Behan, selected and edited by Carolyn Swift for 'Profile', March.

Archive of playwright, novelist, and critic, Carolyn Swift. Papers relate to Swift's literary career at the Pike Theatre, founded in 1953 at Herbert Lane, Dublin (with the Pike Theatre Company founded in 1951); Swift's work in RTÉ Drama and entertainment departments as a script-writer and editor, beginning in the 1960s and over subsequent decades, working on entertainment and children's television programmes, including Down at Flannerys, Wanderly Wagon, Bosco, Forty Coats, and for radio the adaptation of the series Tolka Row, originally written by Maura Laverty. Swift also wrote and edited plays for screen and radio at RTÉ. Swift served as a dance critic for The Irish Times in the 1980s and 1990s. She was a novelist and short-story writer, a film-maker and producer, and other works.

14 images on negative and contact sheets.

Team photo of the Carraroe Cubs, the under 10’s volleyball team, they are standing in front of a bus, and Halla Éinne in Carraroe.

Photograph of Bill Christinan and Kevin [ ], sitting on a mound and smiling and laughing.

Photographs of a session in a car park with Johnny Connolly.