Files with typed scripts of the play "The Plank Over the Stream", written by Carolyn Swift and based on the life and writings of Charlotte Grace O'Brien, poet, essayist, and reformer, 1845 - 1905. Two files each with multiple copies of the playscript.
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Typed playscript of "The Ted's Last Stand" by Carolyn Swift and also under the pseudonym of 'Colm Grant'. Under the name of Grant the play was awarded second prize at Listowel Writers Week. File 1 includes early annotated draft of the play, news coverage of the Listowel award, and final playscript. File 2 includes further typed copies of the play.
File with manuscript notes, overview, and character outlines for a play by Carolyn Swift on the theme of "the problems of women in Ireland". Includes cover letter from Swift to Donal Farmer at RTÉ, discussing early plans for the project Swift made with Chloe Gibson at RTÉ. File also includes numerous draft scripts, with edits and annotation by Swift, for the play.
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 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: 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.