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: 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 letters relating to the writing and composition of songs and lyrics by Carolyn Swift and which used in various productions. The letters include to/from Swift and Fergus Linehan; Fran [ ]; Carl [ ] at RTÉ; Noel Smyth, RTÉ; Ricky Stephens; Joe O'Donnell, RTÉ; Bill Golding; Adrian Cronin, Head of Light Entertainment, RTÉ; Ruth O'Meara, Phoenix Productions; Noel Pearson.
File with song lyrics and related files and correspondence by and relating to Carolyn Swift.
Typed song lyrics as used in Pike Theatre Dublin Follies and Revues, some with annotation and edits/stage directions. Sheets of song lyrics present for:
Lullaby; Party Piece No. 1; She Has Everything She Wanted; Out of the Blues; Me; Lullabye; Blue-Eyed Baby; El Dulce Milagro; Ding Dong Bell; "Alone Tonight" Blues; The Ghost Walks; Union Street; Variety Turn.
"Copy of the song ""Tósc suas do misneach a Éire mo croidhe"" [in Irish]."
File of black and white photographs from the Druid Theatre production of "Song of the Yellow Bittern" by Vincent Woods and directed by Maelíosa Stafford. Includes images and contact sheets which have numerous thumbnail images. Pictured include Frankie McCafferty, Brendan Laird, Ger Ryan, Frank Laverty, Ray McBride, Elizabeth Byrne, Sheila Meaney, Alan Kelly and Enda Kilroy. Negatives included. Photographs by Amelia Stein.
"Copy letter from Eoghan Ó Tuairisc to the Editor of the Connacht Tribune, thanking them for their kind notice of the Relays Drama Group production of ""Song of the Nightingale"" but asking them to note that the majority of the authorship was done by Sandra Warde."
"Typescript for ""Song of the Nightingale"" by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc and Sandra Warde, later revised in July 1973 with Eoghan Ó Tuairisc re-writing the part written by Sandra."