File includes a scrapbook of press cuttings from Irish media with articles about and reviews of 'Stage By Stage', a memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes articles about Swift, the Pike Theatre, Dublin, the Rose Tattoo affair at the Pike Theatre, censorship, theatre in Ireland in the 1950s, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, and Alan Simpson and Carolyn Swift.

Scrapbook also includes coverage, reviews, photographs of coverage of 'Lady G', a play written by Carolyn Swift about Lady Augusta Gregory, and staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1988. (see Abbey Theatre Digital Archive for video recording and related production material from 'Lady G'.

Published copy of 'Stage By Stage', memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press, 1985. Copy was owned by Swift, signed by the author on inside front cover, and edited by manuscript annotations throughout the book. Slips of paper are inserted by comments and edits by Swift.

Files with typescript draft of 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press, dated August 1985. Includes manuscript edits by Swift.

Files with typescript draft of 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes manuscript edits by Swift. No clear date of edits/draft.

Files with typescript draft of 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes manuscript edits by Swift. No clear date of edits/draft.

Typed script of play, "Stealing the Picture" a play in three acts by Carolyn Swift and Joy Rudd, produced at the Pike Theatre Dublin.

Typed playscript of 'Step-In-the-Hollow' by Donagh McDonagh. Postal address for return of script handwritten by [McDonagh] is on front cover.

File of letters between Carolyn Swift and various magazine editors, pitching stories and writings by Swift for publication. Letters to/from editors include: Irish Woman's Journal; Bend Magazine, Dublin; Housewife Magazine, London; Soldier: The British Army Magazine; The Irish Times; Men Only, London; Reveille, London; Punch Magazine, London; Tit-Bits Magazine, London.
Letter to Swift from editor of the Kilkenny Magazine, discussing story submissions by Swift (1962). Text of story 'The Birthday Party' by Carolyn Swift with attached rejection slip "not for us" from Esquire Magazine.

Also a print information pack about 'Executive - the most exciting new Irish publication of 1979', who accepted a story for publication by Swift entitled 'Adam's Apple', with correspondence with the editor accepting the story.

File includes notes and research by Carolyn Swift from the RTÉ television series production of 'Strumpet City' by James Plunkett, 1980, with cast members including Donal McCann, Cyril Cusack, and David Kelly.

File of correspondence to/from Carolyn Swift and relating to her writing and broadcasts for RTÉ Radio programme series, Sunday Miscellany. Includes letters between Swift and editors/staff of the programme including Maxwell Sweeney, and discussing pieces that Swift has written, broadcast schedules, edits needed and related points; Also letters to Swift from listeners to the show who have responded to her pieces and offered comments.