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

Press cuttings from Irish newspapers from the mid-1980s to early 1990s with reviews and coverage of books by Carolyn Swift, in particular the Robbers series of books by Swift, press coverage of book launches and events relating to Children's Literature in Ireland, with photos of Swift attending such events, general coverage of news articles, letters to the press etc. relating to reading by children, children's books and publications, reading initiatives, and literacy in Irish children.
Also includes printed brochure from The Museum of Childhood, Dublin, and of exhibition entitled "Antique Dolls and Toys 1820 - 1930".

Files of correspondence and documents relating to a legal dispute by Carolyn Swift and with the Children's Press, owing to dispute about contracts and publication rights to books by Swift as part of her 'Robbers' series of books. Includes letters between Swift, solicitors, The Arts Council, and others.

Files relating to the Children's Literature World Congress, 'Writers and Readers', held in Oslo, Norway, 23 - 25 September 1988. Swift was a speaker at this world congress with a paper entitled "The influence of The Oral Tradition on Children's Literature in Ireland". File includes marked-up annotated text of the talk by Swift, a second clean typed version of the talk, programme and flyer from the congress with listing of all speakers and congress schedule.

Files 2 - 3 include texts of other papers presented at the congress and about children's literature, writing, reading, and publishing in a number of different countries around the world.

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

The Real Adventure by Carolyn Swift and Peter McKenzie
It Gave Me The Pip by Peter McKenzie

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):

The Antique Department by Nora Leeson
The Proper Charlie (Note: Within Curtis Brown Ltd, London, folder)
Pen Friends
Ikebana
The Cooney Experiment
Adam's Apple
Note: File includes 'Editor Regrets' rejection slip from 'Good Housekeeping' magazine. No reference to which story by Swift was rejected for publication by the Magazine.

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):

Guanche Girl by Colm Grant
The Daily by David Armstrong (Note: With attached rejection slip for the BBC)
Orders is Orders by Carol McKenzie
The Little Blue Door by Carol McKenzie

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):

A Murder Staged
Gentlemen and Players
The Spanish Shawl - (Note: With Curtis Brown Ltd., London, folder)

Two files with series of stories written by Carolyn Swift, named 'The Chronicles of Aloysius'

File 1 includes 'No. 1 - Aloysius, Bohemian'.

File 2 includes 'No. 2 - Aloysius Goes Fishing' and 'No. 3 - Aloysius, Legal Advisor'

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.