File of typescript lyrics for sketches and songs by Carolyn Swift, with handwritten notes and annotation by Swift. Titles of songs/lyrics include: Time and Motion, Dracula, Big Fish, The Tortoise and the Hare, When I was Young, It's So Hard to Hide, Faith Hope, and Charity, Maureen's Spot, Parody on 'She Moved Through the Fair' for Clare Mullan, She Moved through the Fleadh!, Interview with Santa Claus (c/o Proinnsias Mac Aonghusa, Off and On, Busting Out, Curtain Raiser - Hernando's Hideaway (Pike Theatre, 24 Feb 1963), The Persuasive Irish, Please Be My Teddy Bear, Laurie Morton - Single Spot for Royal, The Auld Orange Flute, Single for Eugene Lambert, The Persuasive Irish, When We Hadn't RTÉ, Parody on 'Old Uncle Tom Cobley' for 'Wanderly Wagon, Musical Rathmines, Couplets for Cowards, Let Me Go On Lovin' You for Now, There's Nothing Like Bingo, Strength Through Joy.

File of typescript lyrics for sketches and songs by Carolyn Swift, with handwritten notes and annotation by Swift. Titles of songs/lyrics include Sleepy Joe, Heaven Knows Why, Lying Lips, A Thousand Years Ago, I Don't Believe What I Say, Little Miss Spider, Lazy Woman, When I Was Young, Call, Saturday, Don't Think of Me, Bring Me Back to the Sun, It's So Hard to Hide, I Must Have Just Imagined It All, Third Stop South of Nowhere, Screen Love, The Persuasive Irish, The Song of Roy Bradford, John Milton Hayes, The Ulsterbus, Songs of Clontarf Resident, Busting Out, Counter Melody (Women Have Gone Suddenly Mad), Now, Don't Close The Door, Nothing Holds Them, Going To Work, Mirage, Script For the R.E.S.O. Concert of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, If Only You'll Trust Me, Bring Me Back the Sun, You Can't Serve Two Masters. Decline and Fall (music by George Desmond Hodnett, a revised version of original version from 1954 and produced at the Pike Theatre, Dublin and by the Pike at the Cambridge and Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London.

File of typescript lyrics for sketches and songs by Carolyn Swift, with handwritten notes and annotation by Swift. Titles of songs/lyrics include: Always There, Believe in Me, the Breathless Lover or My Heart Always Goes, the Call of Mallorca, Charlie, Charlie's Bar in Palma, Danger Ahead, Fairy Tales, Going To Work, Go Now, Higgledy-Piggledy, I'm for You, I'm Out Of My Mind, Duet: If I Were Married To You, Jig Saw, The Lonesome Horseman, Love To Burn, Mick the Flick, My Love's Coming Home, Nevermore Be Leaving, Nothing Holds Them, No One Knows, Once Again, Pick Up The Pieces, Roundabout, A Scrap Of Paper, Screen Love, She Isn't Exactly, Soldier Soldier, So Many People, Table For One, Take My One, To Be or Not To Be, A Thing Of The Past, This is The Island, Time Was, To be In Your Arms, Unless You Weep Pearls, Walking the Road, When Winter Comes Around, Where in the World, Why Did they Go?, World Of My Dream, Winds of Change.

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.

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 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.

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;

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 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'.

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.