Files with typescript draft of 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes manuscript edits by Swift. No clear date of edits/draft.

Files with typescript draft of 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes manuscript edits by Swift. No clear date of edits/draft.

Files with typescript draft of 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press, dated August 1985. Includes manuscript edits by Swift.

Published copy of 'Stage By Stage', memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press, 1985. Copy was owned by Swift, signed by the author on inside front cover, and edited by manuscript annotations throughout the book. Slips of paper are inserted by comments and edits by Swift.

File includes a scrapbook of press cuttings from Irish media with articles about and reviews of 'Stage By Stage', a memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes articles about Swift, the Pike Theatre, Dublin, the Rose Tattoo affair at the Pike Theatre, censorship, theatre in Ireland in the 1950s, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, and Alan Simpson and Carolyn Swift.

Scrapbook also includes coverage, reviews, photographs of coverage of 'Lady G', a play written by Carolyn Swift about Lady Augusta Gregory, and staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1988. (see Abbey Theatre Digital Archive for video recording and related production material from 'Lady G'.

Files relating to the writing and editing of the manuscript of 'Stage By Stage', the memoir by Carolyn Swift, published by Poolbeg Press in 1985. Includes drafts, correspondence and contracts.

File with letters and correspondence between Carolyn Swift and others about 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes letters to/from various agencies from early 1980s where Swift is seeking a literary agent, e.g. Terry Prone and Arlen House Press and Wolfhound Press. Also press releases and statements by Arlen House and prizes for women's writing as she is beginning to think about writing her memoir; Letters between Swift and BBC staff (early 1990s) concerning a possible dramatisation of the Pike Theatre / Rose Tattoo affair for television; full script of play written by Hugh Leonard entitled "The Rose Tattoo Affair" based on Swift and Alan Simpson's experiences at the Pike in the 1950s; other letters with Michael Imison Playwrights Ltd. re. rights and writing of the book;

File with text of book blurb and author note about 'Stage By Stage', memoir by Carolyn Swift, with signed book contract made between Swift and Poolbeg Press for writing and publication terms on the book.
Also includes royalty statements based on sales of the book sent to Swift by the publisher. Also printed draft of the book cover and jacket, on card.
Also typed draft, possibly from Stage by Stage, an titled "The Strange Case Of the Rose Tattoo - Chapter 1" by Swift.

Hardback ledger for client of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry, St. Anthony's Hospital, Merrion, Dublin 4. Includes handwritten entries for batches of laundry processed from the hospital with breakdown and lists of categories of pieces for laundry.

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.