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.
File labelled 'Ideas for Lyrics - Unfinished'. Includes some typed lyric sheets for sketches/songs by Carolyn Swift. Includes letter from Swift to Fran Dempsey and to Tommy Ellis re. recording of song demos.
File labelled "Crap Sketches" with texts and lyrics for sketches by Carolyn Swift. Titles include The Self-Service Restaurant, Search for Finegan, There's Nothing Like Bingo, To See Ourselves, Mr. Pussy's Address to the Historical Society of Trinity, Women's Lib Sketch for Mr. Pussy, Agony Column.
Typed text and lyrics of sketches by Carolyn Swift as part of 'Curtain Up' on RTÉ.
File with typed lyrics by Carolyn Swift used within a version of Lysistrata during the Dublin Theatre Festival and which starred Anna Manahan and Agnes Bernelle. Also includes letters between Swift and Manahan and Bernelle, as well as press cuttings of letters between all three which were published in the Irish times, regarding a disagreement about edits and credit of lyrics within the production.
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 assorted play programmes and flyers for productions of works by or related to Carolyn Swift. Includes:
Typed synopsis for two hour, two act play for the Dublin Theatre Millenium Festival - "The Playboy of Abbey Street"; Programme from 'Gadaithe San Amharclann', the Irish language version of 'Robbers In The theatre' translated by Treasa Ní Thiarnáin and produced at Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe (6-12 Dec 1993)
Programme from Lysistrata by Aristophanes, at the John Player Theatre, Dublin, by Amber Productions in association with Dublin Theatre Festival, directed by Agnes Bernelle
Programme from Pike Theatre Late Night Revue directed by Louis Lentin, scripts by Fergus Linehan - note - not Pike production.
Programme from Irish Life Theatre Revue from Irish Life Musical and Dramatic Society - "Life-Line" - with lyrics by Carolyn Swift.
Programme from revue "Sweet and Sour" at the Eblana Theatre, Gemini and D.K. Productions, with lyrics by Carlyn Swift. Press cuttings of reviews also attached.
programme from 'Revue '74' by the New Mullingar Revue Group, directed and produced by Alan Simpson and with lyrics by Carolyn Swift.
Hamlet and The Colleen Bawn (Romar Productions, book and lyrics by Carolyn Swift. (Dec 1963 - Pike Theatre Club)
Poster from "Aladdin And his Wonderful Dream Lamp" a rock musical by Carolyn Swift and Fran Dempsey, at Liberty Hall, Dublin. Reverse includes cast and crew list and black and white photo of the cast pictured along the quays in Dublin City.
File of theatre programmes from plays produced by the Dublin Globe Theatre Company and collected by Carolyn Swift. Note: Godfrey Quigley was a founding member of the Dublin Globe Theatre Company in the 1940s. Later, he formed World Theatre Productions with Donal Donnelly in Dublin in the 1970s. Programmes for Dublin Globe Theatre include (and unless otherwise stated were produced at the Gasworks Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin): The Seventh Step by Padraic Fallon at the Olympia Theatre; Irish Fantasia by Sean O'Casey, J.M. Synge, and R.B. Sheridan as part of an Tostal, 1955; The Beaux Stratagem by George Farquhar; The Living Room by Graham Greene (Irish Premiere); Montserrat; My Three Angels by Sam and Bella Spewack; The Hasty Heart by John Patrick; We Must Kill Toni! by Ian Stuart Black; See How They Run by Philip King; The Biggest Thief in Town by Dalton Trumbo, Hay Fever by Noel Coward; A Season of Plays by W.B. Yeats as part of the [Dublin] International Theatre Festival 1957; A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller at the Olympia Theatre; You and Your Wife by Denis Cannan; High Balcony by Peter Ustinov; The Man by Mel Dinelli; While the Sun Shines by Terence Rattigan, Captain Carvallo by Denis Cannon, Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz at the Gaiety Theatre; Harvey by Mary Chase at the Gaiety Theatre; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod at the Gaiety Theatre; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; Miss Ducky by Andrew Ganly; My Three Angels by Sam and Bella Spewack; Bus Stop by William Inge at the Gate Theatre Dublin; The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter at the Gate Theatre Dublin; The Wayward Saint by Paul Vincent Carroll at the Gaiety theatre Dublin; The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca; Madigan's Lock by Hugh Leonard at the Gate Theatre Dublin; Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton at the Gate Theatre Dublin; Decision at Easter by G.P. Gallivan at the Gate Theatre Dublin; Dinner with the Family by Jean Anouilh at the Gate Theatre Dublin; Traveller Without Luggage by Jean Anouilh at the Gate Theatre Dublin.
Printed programmes from various productions at the New Theatre Oxford, and attended by Caroline Swift.