Full programme from the Children's Book Festival 1999, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council - Carolyn Swift named as a speaker;
Full programme with flyers from the Children's Book Festival 1998, with letters from the organisers to Carolyn Swift, who was a speaker.

File also includes an information pack and booklet about the 'Friends of the Irish Children's Book Trust', with brochuers about Summer School on Children's Literature 1992 and Children's Book Week.

Booklet from the CLÉ - The Irish Book Publishers Association Code of Practice - Guidelines for Publishers in Their Dealings With Authors

File includes press release for the Bisto Book of the Year Award (Irish Children's Book Trust Award) 1990;
File with posters, flyers, press releases on books for children in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s.

File 2 includes posters of Poolbeg Press children's book publications, bookmarks, and other ephemera from Irish children's books.

File with information packs about The Writers in School Scheme, an initiative of the Arts Council and Poetry Ireland, designed to bring children's writers and children's books directly into Irish schools. the information packs include details of the scheme and also has a directory of all participating writers and the works /ages they write for. Carolyn Swift was listed as a participating writer.

File 2 includes payment slips and forms/letters from the Arts Council to Carolyn Swift, owing to her work as part of the Writers in Schools scheme. Contains info of monies paid and names of schools in which Swift attended for readings and workshops.

File 3 includes correspondence to Carolyn Swift from Poetry Ireland about the administration of the Writers in Schools scheme and discussing programming, scheduling of talks at schools by Swift, and general planning of Swift's involvement on the Writers in Schools scheme, and wider education and outreach activities by Poetry Ireland.

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.

Texts of public talks given by Carolyn Swift at various events and on topics of Irish literature and culture, children's literature, theatre, politics.

File with text of talk by Carolyn Swift, entitled "Our Cousins - The Egyptians", which was delivered at an event organised by the Israel/Ireland Friendship League, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Eden Quay, Dublin, Wednesday 16 April 1980. Multiple typed copies of the talk, annotated by hand by Swift.

Letters between Swift and Alice Darlington, President of the Ireland - Israel Friendship League, discussing plans for the talk including earliest letter of invitation to Swift from Darlington hoping that Swift will give a talk for the League (7 Aug 1979); letter of invitation issued to the talk by the League and on League headed paper; Letter from Swift to the Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Egypt, Mount Merrion, Dublin (Jan 1980). Also list of slides and images used by Swift as part of the talk.

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.

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