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File of documents relating to the set and staging of "The Year of the Hiker" by Druid Theatre company at various venues along its Irish tour. Items include technical specification plans and documents for touring venues, lighting and sound specifications, plans and drawings of stage and auditoria and other such items.

Records from the planning and administration of the Irish tour production of "The Year of the Hiker", written by John B. Keane and directed by Garry Hynes. Touring venues and dates include: Portlaoise – Dunamaise Arts Centre, December 11 – 18, 2006; Newbridge – Riverbank Arts Centre, December 9 – 10, 2006; Longford – Backstage Theatre, December 4 – 6, 2006; Dun Laoghaire – Pavilion Theatre, November 27 – December 2, 2006; Letterkenny – An Grianán, November 20 – 25, 2006; Ennis – Glór, November 13 – 18, 2006; Cork – Cork Opera House
November 6 – 11, 2006; Tralee – Siamsa Tíre, October 30 – November 4, 2006.

Files of documents relating to the Galway and Dublin production of "The Year of the Hiker", written by John B. Keane. Produced at Dublin – Gaiety Theatre, May 22 – June 17, 2006 and Galway – Town Hall Theatre, May 9 – 20, 2006.

Printed programme from the 'Druid Classic' production of "the Year of the Hiker" by John B. Keane, directed by Garry Hynes and staged by Druid Theatre Company. Staged at the Town-Hall Theatre, Galway (9-20 May 2006) and the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin (22 May - 17 June 2006). Includes excerpt from 'Westward Ho" by Samuel Beckett; text of a poem written by John B. Keane following the death of his father, William Keane; a chronology of Druid productions of Keane plays; images and biographies of cast and creative team members.

Printed programme from The National Theatre of Great Britain production of "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion, based on her memoir and directed by David Hare, staged at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Includes a note on the National Theatre of Great Britain; an article "The Year of Hoping for Stage Magic" - an extract from "The Year of Hoping for Stage Magic" by Joan Didion; article "Staging Magical Thinking" by David Hare; biographies of cast members and details of events taking place within the Festival.

Newspaper cutting from unnamed publication of a short story by Michael Andrew Lysaght Rynne, entitled "The Yaller Dog".

Contact sheet containing 6 images, and corresponding negative sheet containing 20 images.

Contact sheet image of Bernie Wyndham, and her little sister identified as T. Wyndham. The negative images include these images, and also some of Bob Quinn wearing a hat and breeches.

VHS copy of The Writing Life - Terry Winch Talks with John McGahern. Duration: 26m 44s.

File with information packs about The Writers in School Scheme, an initiative of the Arts Council and Poetry Ireland, designed to bring children's writers and children's books directly into Irish schools. the information packs include details of the scheme and also has a directory of all participating writers and the works /ages they write for. Carolyn Swift was listed as a participating writer.

File 2 includes payment slips and forms/letters from the Arts Council to Carolyn Swift, owing to her work as part of the Writers in Schools scheme. Contains info of monies paid and names of schools in which Swift attended for readings and workshops.

File 3 includes correspondence to Carolyn Swift from Poetry Ireland about the administration of the Writers in Schools scheme and discussing programming, scheduling of talks at schools by Swift, and general planning of Swift's involvement on the Writers in Schools scheme, and wider education and outreach activities by Poetry Ireland.

Files with correspondence between Swift and various schools who have invited Swift to read/attend/give workshops to students in their school as part of the Writers in Residence scheme. Also letters from various county council and local authorities and public library readings where Swift was invited to read in local libraries. Also text of letter written by Swift to Children via Ballyfermot Library about a book that influenced Swift as a child.

NOTE: Files also include letters and invitations to Swift to read at non-school events, such as invited talks by An Taisce, Irish PEN, Dublin Writers Museum