Files with texts (typed) of short stories written by Carolyn Swift. Dates of the stories are unclear but likely written at times between the 1960s and 1990s.

Correspondence between Carolyn Swift and others including publishers of her children's books and stories, theatre producers, and others.

Letters include from Gill and MacMillan Publishers; writer Joe O'Donnell; Joe Dowling, abbey Theatre, Dublin; Nicole Jussek, Children's Editor, Poolbeg Press; Wendy Hill, Royal National Institute For The Blind, UK; Deirdre Moore, Poolbeg Press; Jo O'Donoghue, Poolbeg Press; Clodagh Corcoran; Press release about a volume of stories for Children called "Discoveries" edited by Clodagh Corcoran and featuring work by Swift; Gerry Lundberg, Gaiety Theatre re. pantomimes written by Swift; Patrick Murray, Director, Irish National Ballet; Laurence Cassidy, Literature Officer, Arts Council; CJ Fallon Publishers; Mercier Press; Also handwritten notes by Swift about writing for young Irish Travellers and perceptions and stigma about Travellers;

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.

File with short stories by Swift, as follows:

The Giant and the Witch
The Prince Whose Hair Turned White
The Little Blue Door
The Daily
Father Took a Table
The Real Adventure
The Spanish Shawl
Adam's Apple
Orders Is Orders
The Antique Department
The Spaniard
Guanche Girl
The Seminar
The Moorings
Swift Thinking

File with typescript short stories for children written by Carolyn Swift. Mostly clean copy documents, some with manuscript annotation by Swift. the stories featured or were published in collections of stories edited by others and to which Swift contributed, such as volumes of ghost stories.
The file contains the following short-stories:

The Corpse Will Walk
No Blithe Spirit
The Giant and The Witch
The Prince Whose Hair Turned White
The Burial Place Of The Kings
Learning By Accident
The Big Picture
The Lights of Palestine
The Irish Cinderella
The Turf-Cutter's Find
Maura's Ghost
The Magic Glasses
The Robot Crow
Reg
Sneaky Snake Digs a Hole (For Wanderly Wagon Annual 1979)
O'Brien With the White Bicycle (For Wanderly Wagon Annual 1979)
The Great Hunting Horn (For Wanderly Wagon Annual 1979)
The Magic Wish (For Wanderly Wagon Annual 1979)
The Land Of Upside Down (For Wanderly Wagon Annual 1979)
Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted (For Wanderly Wagon Annual, 1979)

Also typed text of poem by Swift, entitled 'Centipede'.