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File of short playscripts written as part of an education programme run in Belfast by Lelia Doolan. Includes letter sent to Doolan from the Northern Ireland Office, inviting Doolan to attend for interview following her application for the role of part-time teacher at HM Prison, Maze, Belfast (25 Jan 1975).

Files relating to plays written or adapted for television and which were edited by Carolyn Swift.

Scripts and treatments for television plays and for television series by and co-authored by Carolyn Swift and by others, submitted to RTÉ for consideration for broadcast.

Edition of 'Plays and Players' magazine, November 1959. Includes a review of Dublin Theatre Festival productions, including of the Globe Theatre Company production of 'The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles', by George Bernard (G.B.) Shaw, and starring Genevieve Lyons and Anew McMaster. Also includes image from the production.

Edition of Plays and Players Magazine, April 1961. Includes interview with Irish scenic designer, Sean Kenny.

Letter to Tim and Máiréad, signed Patrick G (SCI), undated. Encloses photocopy of a booklet, 'Rosaleen Dhu; or The Twelve Pins of Bia-a-Bola', an Irish Drama in 3 acts by John Dinvir, a play published in 1874.

Copy of an unpublished manuscript by Mary Walsh entitled 'A Piece of Yellow Chalk', photocopied in October 1998. There is a handwritten list of illustrations in Tim's writing at the front of the MS. Written about in 'Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness'.

Photocopy of 'Twenty Years in the wild west, or Life in Connaught' by Mrs Houston, author of 'A Yacht Voyage to Texas'. 1879. A handwritten note at the start says 'Rev William G Durkan PP Leenane, 1995'.

Correspondence and copy lists of plays planned for each year to be sent to the Department of the Gaeltacht. [in Irish]

File relating to Playcircle Theatre Group, Dublin. Company directors are noted as Phyllis Ryan, Anna Managan, Helen Robinson, Carolyn Swift and Agnes Bernelle. Includes letters between Swift, Manahan, and Bernelle, printed sheet programmes of productions by Playcircle, with cast and crew list, with plays including by G.P. Gallivan, Liam Lynch, and James Douglas. Also typed report on plays read for Playcircle by Swift (1974).

Four Provinces production of "Playboy of the Western World" by J.M. Synge, adapted and presented by Brian Desmond Hurst. Siobhán McKenna features as Pegeen Mike

Produced by the Dublin Festival Company, it was later to tour in the U.K. and Hong Kong, with Siobhán in the role of the Widow Quinn.