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File with typed short stories by Carolyn Swift. Multiple copies of some of the stories included and also with Swift possibly using pseudonyms.
Stories in this file include (and are authored by Swift alone unless otherwise stated):

David and Goliath
The Call of Duty
The Seminar
The Unmentionable
The Moorings

Some of above stories were entered for the Francis McManus Short Story Award and the Powers Short Story Prize.

File with short stories by Swift, as follows:

The Giant and the Witch
The Prince Whose Hair Turned White
The Little Blue Door
The Daily
Father Took a Table
The Real Adventure
The Spanish Shawl
Adam's Apple
Orders Is Orders
The Antique Department
The Spaniard
Guanche Girl
The Seminar
The Moorings
Swift Thinking

File with writings including short stories and play adaptations for television and radio serialised in magazines. File includes episode texts of the adaptation of Tolka Row originally by Maura Laverty, and of An Triail/OnTrial originally by Máiréad Ní Ghráda. Includes letters between Swift and the Laverty estate discussing publication rights; Letters between Swift and editor of Irish Women's Journal and the editor of Woman's Way magazine, discussing the publication of work by Swift based on Laverty's earlier work; also letters between Swift and producer Chloe Gibson. Also compliments Slips from the Woman's Way to Swift, with details of payments to Swift and publication information.
Notes on On Trial' for publicity purposes by Swift; texts of each part of Swift's adaptation of On Trial.

File of letters between Carolyn Swift and various magazine editors, pitching stories and writings by Swift for publication. Letters to/from editors include: Irish Woman's Journal; Bend Magazine, Dublin; Housewife Magazine, London; Soldier: The British Army Magazine; The Irish Times; Men Only, London; Reveille, London; Punch Magazine, London; Tit-Bits Magazine, London.
Letter to Swift from editor of the Kilkenny Magazine, discussing story submissions by Swift (1962). Text of story 'The Birthday Party' by Carolyn Swift with attached rejection slip "not for us" from Esquire Magazine.

Also a print information pack about 'Executive - the most exciting new Irish publication of 1979', who accepted a story for publication by Swift entitled 'Adam's Apple', with correspondence with the editor accepting the story.

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.

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.

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'.

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.