Collection T40 - Carolyn Swift Archive

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UGA T40

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Carolyn Swift Archive

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  • 1940-2002

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55 boxes

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Archive of playwright, novelist, and critic, Carolyn Swift. Papers relate to Swift's literary career at the Pike Theatre, founded in 1953 at Herbert Lane, Dublin (with the Pike Theatre Company founded in 1951); Swift's work in RTÉ Drama and entertainment departments as a script-writer and editor, beginning in the 1960s and over subsequent decades, working on entertainment and children's television programmes, including Down at Flannerys, Wanderly Wagon, Bosco, Forty Coats, and for radio the adaptation of the series Tolka Row, originally written by Maura Laverty. Swift also wrote and edited plays for screen and radio at RTÉ. Swift served as a dance critic for The Irish Times in the 1980s and 1990s. She was a novelist and short-story writer, a film-maker and producer, and other works.

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

      06/11/2024
      02/07/2025

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