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File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the theme of theatre. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
A Play From The Old Stock
Tullira Castle and the Birth of the Abbey Theatre
Old Theatre Buildings and Their Acoustics
The Ghost of Pantos Past
A Hamlet of the World of Dance
Going to the Theatre in Japan
Memories of Mac
Pupper People
The Irish Swan Lake
Women in the Irish Theatre
The Drama Critic
Women's Roles in Plays - And Out of Them
Godot In The Pike [Theatre]

File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the topic of Ireland, personal and family, and general themes. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
Dunbrody Abbey
The One That Got Away
Tradition Vs Progress
The Rose of Drimnagh
A Holiday Romance
Difficulties in Identifying A Malady
A Trip To Wexford
Places That Feel Like Home
Surnames
Why I Never Wear Boots
Airing Our Likes and Dislikes
Innocently Insulting Other Races
Wrestling On TV
The Search For Longevity
The Tortoise Versus Stone Age Man
The Fascination of Flowers

File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the topic of Ireland, personal and family, and general themes. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
The Scholar Surgeon
The Real Diplomatic Service
Washing In The Ways Of Our Fathers
Bird's Eye View
Potholes of the World Unite
Nature's Sympathy With the Poet's Mood
The Perils of Fancy Dress
The One That Got Away
The Man Who Sought And Found Notoriety
The Peaceful Invasion
Religious and Political Symbols
Our Cousins The Jews
Reaching the Heavens
Colette
Old Fashions In Old Films

File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the topic of Ireland, personal and family, and general themes. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
The Antique Department
One-Way Streets in Wexford
My Grandmother and Madras
The Fine Art of Milking the Tourist
Superstition, Saints, and Suntan
Do You Believe In Ghosts
Visual Illiteracy
The Case of The Moving Haystacks
Birthday Greetings From a Famous Author
Masks
Meeting the Locals
The Rossiters of Rathmacknee
A Twelfth Century Woman Writer and Composer Who Should Have been a Saint
Wildlife in Our Parks
The Big House of Clarinbridge
The French Drop-Out We Remember at Christmas
The Pet Named After a Planet
It Could Have Been Here
Doctors Don't Differ on Dieting
Back To The Pony and Trap
Cooking By Volcano
A Moving Experience
The Vicar Of Bray and The Archbishop of Cashel
The Shield of David
Mythology and Folklore
Setting Off International Crises
The First Novel Ever Written

File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the topic of Ireland, personal and family, and general themes. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
The Museum of Childhood
Vanishing Dublin
Manders Mills
The Memorial Park
Travelling Light
How To Avoid Sunburn
The Potency of Music
The New Nature Reserve at Slievecarran
The Power of Myth
The Egestorff Museum
The Anarchy of Driving
The Souls of Old Dublin
Cute Kiddies!
The Ancient Craft of The Coopers
Are We Changed by Our Clothes?
The Receding Horizons of Age
The Day my Grandparents Stopped Changing for Dinner
Looking Up!
Say It With Flowers
Literary Detection
Dinosaurs of the New Ice Age
Old Fashions in Old Films
Religious and Political Symbols
Dying Traditions of Urban Societies
Cyrus The Great and the First Charter of Human Rights
Anna Maria Hall
Charlotte Grace O'Malley
Spiders
The Virtue of Whiskey

File of writings on local history and archaeology of Athenry, Co. Galway.

File with writings including short stories and play adaptations for television and radio serialised in magazines. File includes episode texts of the adaptation of Tolka Row originally by Maura Laverty, and of An Triail/OnTrial originally by Máiréad Ní Ghráda. Includes letters between Swift and the Laverty estate discussing publication rights; Letters between Swift and editor of Irish Women's Journal and the editor of Woman's Way magazine, discussing the publication of work by Swift based on Laverty's earlier work; also letters between Swift and producer Chloe Gibson. Also compliments Slips from the Woman's Way to Swift, with details of payments to Swift and publication information.
Notes on On Trial' for publicity purposes by Swift; texts of each part of Swift's adaptation of On Trial.

File with some assorted articles, talks, and manuscript notes by Lelia Doolan. Note on file cover read "Notes and Scribbles". Includes a note page written by Doolan headed "The True History of Leslie Woodcock - A Film for Fun", listing cast and production team and other details about the film production.
Text of address by Lelia Doolan, "Bob Quinn Retrospective" (14 Aug 1987)
Text of talk delivered by Doolan at the Royal Irish Academy, 1987, as part of conference entitled "The State of Social Sciences Research in Ireland" (26 May 1987) - the paper by Doolan is entitled 'Harmless Drudgery". File also includes speaker notes for a talk given by Doolan to Drama students at NUI Galway (University of Galway), 1 Oct 2004.

File 2 includes texts and articles by Doolan: "Two Hot Days in Belfast" (1975); "Video Activity in Belfast" (c. 1974); "Problems of a National Theatre" (For Arts Magazine, transcribed from a conversation); "Theatre and its Audience"; "Language and Culture"; "Drama in Ireland"; Dramaiocht in Eireann; "Ladislav Holy - Knowledge and Behaviour" written for the seminar 'Knowledge and Behaviour', Dept of Social Anthropology, QUB (Dec 1974).

Typescript (incomplete) of article written by Kevin Boyle on issues of freedom of religious belief and also a copy of article written by Boyle, as Director of Essex Human Rights Centre and being an opening address at the 'ACF Belfast Conference' on buildi

Writings and comment from Kevin Boyle on policing, security, deaths and violence in Northern Ireland.