Files relating to Project Arts Centre Dublin.

File 1 includes Project arts Centre Newsletters, press releases for theatre, music, and visual art events, project diary of events, 1978, programme for Dublin Theatre Festival Fringe events 1976, updates and overview of work and plans at Project - all 1976 - 1978.

File 2 includes notices of AGMs and EGMs of Project Arts Centre, agenda of meetings, directors reports and associated documents circulated to members. Also includes invitations to Swift for opening night events and press releases for events at Project, 1988 - 1995.

File 3 includes notices of meetings and AGMs of Project Arts Centre, with financial statements, Chairman's Report, meeting documents and related items, 1980 - 1988.

Published articles by Carolyn Swift in the RTÉ Guide and relating to works she has written for RTÉ television and radio in the 1960s and 1970s. Articles include photographs from the shows by Swift and which were broadcast on RTÉ.
Articles include:
Old Friends and New Faces ('Tolka Row' - Television, 8 Dec 1967)
Parts 1 - 6 of 'Tolka Row', adapted by Carolyn Swift from Maura Laverty's television series)
Text of the play, published in parts, 'On Trial', in an adaptation of the play by Carolyn Swift from the original by Máiréad Ní Ghráda. (see also file T40/4/33/21 for typed texts of the play adaptation by Swift)
Text of series by Carolyn Swift, 'The Bolger Gang', published in parts - described as 'an exclusive serial of Dublin life'.
Text of [short story] by Carolyn Swift - 'Tomorrow Sometimes Comes'
Text of 'The Antique Department' by Nora Leeson - Note: handwritten note states this is a pseudonym for Carolyn Swift.
Article about the 150th episode of television serial 'Tolka Row' by Carolyn Swift, and with Swift commenting on the series. (10 Nov 1967)
Article about the television broadcast of play by Heno Magee, 'I'm, Getting Out of This Kip', by script editor Carolyn Swift (10 Nov 1972)
Article about the television broadcast of play by James Douglas, 'All The Eels In The Ranny Are Dead', by script editor Carolyn Swift (4 Oct 1968).

File with letters between Carolyn Swift and her various publishers, including O'Brien Press, Poolbeg Press, Jon Roseman Associates (discussing TV adaptation and production of books from the 'Robbers' series by Swift); invitations to book launches; letter to Swift from Blackwell Publishers confirming Swift's contribution to "A Companion to Modern Irish Culture" edited by William McCormack and to which Swift has contributed (1999).

Typescript detailed overview and synopsis of Puck Fair - A Ballet in Three Scenes. Three copies, some with notes and annotation by Carolyn Swift.

File relating to productions by The Puppet People, which comprised the Lambert puppet family company, Carolyn Swift as writer, music by Jolyon Jackson.

Scripts for The Puppet People shows written by Swift and included are:
The Fantabulous Circus (Typed script with detailed annotation by Swift)
Dinky the Circus Donkey (Typed script with edits by Swift)
Thumbelina (noted as being a Lambert Family Bandwagon production, written by Swift)
The Ugly Duckling (noted as being a Lambert Family Bandwagon production, written by Swift)

File also includes manuscript notes by Swift, press cuttings from Puppet People shows.

Typed screenplay of "Pushka and the Sandtrap" by Shane O'Sullivan

File relating to "Quakser"/"The Adventures of Dandy The Duck/Dodder Duck" - a radio play for children written and developed by Carolyn Swift for RTÉ Radio. Includes scripts for "The Adventures of Dandy The Duck", "Quakser Goes to See Santa", and correspondence between Swift and Catherine Rose of Arlen House Press discussing writing a children's book based on the character (1980-81) and also letters to Gerry Lundberg, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, from Swift about a stage adaptation of the story.
Typed script of radio play by Swift, 'Quakser Has an Adventure', sent with attached copy letter from Swift to Frank [ ], Head of Radio Drama, RTÉ, 10 May 1982.

Files of radio play scripts and related files by Carolyn Swift.
See also series of files relating to 'Tolka Row' - adapted for radio by Carolyn Swift T40/4/2

File of letters relating to the reference book entries that Carolyn Swift was commissioned to write for 'The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature" edited by Prof. Robert Welch. Letters between Swift and Welch discuss the entries written by Swift, and edits and drafting of entries.
Entries written by Swift include "The Irish Dame With the French Name" about Ninette De Valois; The Gate Theatre, Dublin.
Sample entries by other authors sent to Swift for reference.

Also letters between Swift and W.J. McCormack and Jill Siddall ad contributions to "A Companion of Irish Culture" (1991). Entries by Swift include articles on Irish ballet, music and dance in Irish drama, Ninette De Valois, and Anton Dolin

Typed copy of script for sketch "Research Into Research" produced as part of the Late Night Follies by the Pike Theatre, Dublin. By Carolyn Swift.