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File of letters too Carolyn Swift relating to the production of her play, Lady G, staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 1987. Letters included from Jennifer Johnston seeking a copy of the script for a student (1990); letters between Swift and Michael Imison, London, Playwright Agency, discussing rights, productions, royalties, and agreements for productions of Lady G; series of letters between Swift and Christopher FitzSimons, abbey Theatre dublin, discussing terms for production of Lady G, opinion on the script and enclosing box office receipts from the Abbey Peacock Theatre production run, 1987.

Typed playscript of "The Ted's Last Stand" by Carolyn Swift and also under the pseudonym of 'Colm Grant'. Under the name of Grant the play was awarded second prize at Listowel Writers Week. File 1 includes early annotated draft of the play, news coverage of the Listowel award, and final playscript. File 2 includes further typed copies of the play.

File of typescript lyrics for sketches and songs by Carolyn Swift, with handwritten notes and annotation by Swift. Titles of songs/lyrics include Cross-Talk Comedians, Female Impersonator Gags, Women's Lib Sketches for Mr. Pussy, Changing Times, The More Things Change, Off and On, Odd Man Out, Public Relations, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Letter to the Editor, Pop Call, Suburbia 1970, Spot for Anna Manahan, Spot for Milo O'Shea, Newscast 1500B.C., The Great Food Scare, Plumbing Perils.

File labelled "Crap Sketches" with texts and lyrics for sketches by Carolyn Swift. Titles include The Self-Service Restaurant, Search for Finegan, There's Nothing Like Bingo, To See Ourselves, Mr. Pussy's Address to the Historical Society of Trinity, Women's Lib Sketch for Mr. Pussy, Agony Column.

File with typed lyrics by Carolyn Swift used within a version of Lysistrata during the Dublin Theatre Festival and which starred Anna Manahan and Agnes Bernelle. Also includes letters between Swift and Manahan and Bernelle, as well as press cuttings of letters between all three which were published in the Irish times, regarding a disagreement about edits and credit of lyrics within the production.

File of theatre programmes collected by Carolyn Swift from the Focus Theatre, Off Pembroke Street, Dublin. Programmes include: Occupations by Trevor Griffiths; The Day of the Mayfly by Declan Burke Kennedy; A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee; He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev; Dance of Death by August Strindberg, adapted by Peter O'Shaughnessy; Taken in Marriage by Thomas Babe; Alpha Beta by E.A. Whitehead; The Nuns by Edouard Manet, Orphans by Lyle Kessler, The Secret Rapture by David Hare, A Question of Geography by John Berger and Nella Bielski, Days in the Trees by Marguerite Duras; The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd by D.H. Lawrence; Night, Mother by Marsha Norman; Skirmishes by Catherine Hayes, A Lesson from Aloes by Athol Fugard; Alice Through the Looking Glass by Robert Lane; The Balcony by Jean Genet; The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen; She's Your Mother too, You Know! by Ena May; Playing Sinatra by Bernard Kops; Summer by Edward Bond; A Lunchtime Season of Modern Irish Plays; Small Box Psychosis by Barry McKinley; Buried Child by Sam Shepard; Healing the Dead by Johnny Hanrahan; The Golden Goose by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; Potatoes by Tony Cafferky; Death of a Dog by Gerry O'Malley; Le Malentendu by Albert Camus; Play With a Tiger by Doris Lessing; Toys in the Attic by Lillian Hellman, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

File of theatre programmes from plays by Cyril Cusack Productions, and collected by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include: The Voices of Doolin by Walter Mackin; Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw and Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett; The Golden Cuckoo by Denis Johnston; The Temptation of Mr. O based on The Trial by Franz Kafka; Roger Casement by Roger McHugh and Alfred Noyes; Hamlet by William Shakespeare; The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge; Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw and Hello Out There! by Wm. Saroyan; Shaw Centenary (G.B. Shaw/ Bernard Shaw) Androcles and the Lion, Gaiety Theatre Dublin 1956

Printed programmes from productions by The Passion Machine Theatre Company. Programmes collected by Carolyn Swift and include: Wasters (1991) by Paul Mercier; The Dublin Trilogy - Buddleia, Kitchensink, Native City by Paul Mercier (1998); Diarmaid and Grainne by Paul Mercier; Massive Damages by Declan Lynch; Kitchensink (1996) by Paul Mercier; Buddleia by Paul Mercier (1995); Songs of the Reaper (1994); Pilgrims by Paul Mercier (1993); Brownbread by Roddy Doyle (1994).

File of theatre programmes produced at Project Arts Centre Dublin during the 1980s and from plays attended by Carolyn Swift. Where a year of production is noted it is stated here. Programmes include:
General brochure for Project Arts Centre events in theatre, film, art, and music; Invitation to Now and Then and to So Different ... and Yet by James Coleman with Roger Doyle and Olwen Fouéré (1981); Ticket and Press Release for The Goodbye Machine by Lee Gallacher; Tyerskoy Boulevard by Theatre Union of the Russian Federation; The Gala Gala Man by John Maher; Uncle Silas by Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy; Sea Urchins by Aodhan Madden; Dead end Kids by Bill Wertz; Low In The Dark by Marina Carr (1989); Stand Up and Be Comic including The Christian Brother by Ron Blair and Hancock's Last Half-Hour by Heathcote Williams with Red Rex Theatre Company; Rat In the Skull by Ron Hutchinson; Judith; An Arabian Night and Cymbeline, Dublin Theatre Festival programme at Project Arts Centre including Writer's Cramp by John Byrne, Forever Young by Shane Connachton and on life of Bob Dylan, Alternative Cabaret and Hancock's Last Hour-Hour; Readings of New Irish Plays - Tantalus by Ken Bourke, Ullaloo by Marina Carr, Timelines by Lorraine Donoghue from Independent Theatre Association; Bunreacht Boys by Maciek Reszczynski; Eejits by Ron Hutchinson; Bent by Martin Sherman; We Can't Pay, We Won't Pay by Dario Fo; the Morning After Optimism by Tom Murphy; Extremities by William Mastrosimone; My Sister in This House by Wendy Kesselman; Three Bunches of Blood and a Lump of Fog by Sean McCarthy (1983); Masterpieces by Sarah Daniels; The Antigone by Aidan Matthews; The Diamond Body by Operating Theatre; Krieg by Liam Lynch (World Premiere); Beyond Words - Mime event and with press release (1981); The Lover by Harold Pinter and Lunch by Berkoff - Second Skin Theatre , London; One Big Blow by John Burrows and 7:84 Theatre Company England; Trafford Tanzi by Claire Luckham (1984). The Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the Garden by Garcia Lorca - Operating Theatre Company (1984).

File with theatre programmes from plays written or produced or directed by Jim and or Peter Sheridan. Many plays produced at Project Arts Centre Dublin. Plays attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include:
The Risen People by James Plunkett (Project Arts Centre) The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and adapted by Steven Berkoff (Project Arts Centre); Mobile Homes by Jim Sheridan, directed by Peter Sheridan (Project); Shades of the Jelly Woman (The Complete Version) by Peter Sheridan with Jean Doyle; The Liberty Suit by Peter Sheridan directed by Jim Sheridan (Olympia Theatre); The Other Side of Lilliput by Lee Gallaher, directed by Jim Sheridan (Project); No entry by Peter Sheridan directed by Jim Sheridan (Project); Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo adapted by Gavin Richards, directed by Jim Sheridan (Oscar Theatre Productions); Down All The Days by Christy Brown adapted by Peter Sheridan directed by Jim Sheridan (Oscar Theatre Productions); Children of Eve by Peter Sheridan (Dublin Youth Theatre, Andrews Lane Theatre).
Also season programme from Project Arts Centre with listings and casts for plays at Project including The Ha'Penny Place by Jim Sheridan and directed by Peter Sheridan. Plays also listed are The Passion of Christ (Greek Theatre Company Athens), Duchess by Judith Alderson and Kate Phelps and There's Three Sides to Everything by Pat Abernathy and Dave Marsden and also listed in schedule of Liveworks - An Alternative Festival.