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.

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.

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'.

File with text of book blurb and author note about 'Stage By Stage', memoir by Carolyn Swift, with signed book contract made between Swift and Poolbeg Press for writing and publication terms on the book.
Also includes royalty statements based on sales of the book sent to Swift by the publisher. Also printed draft of the book cover and jacket, on card.
Also typed draft, possibly from Stage by Stage, an titled "The Strange Case Of the Rose Tattoo - Chapter 1" by Swift.

File with letters and correspondence between Carolyn Swift and others about 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes letters to/from various agencies from early 1980s where Swift is seeking a literary agent, e.g. Terry Prone and Arlen House Press and Wolfhound Press. Also press releases and statements by Arlen House and prizes for women's writing as she is beginning to think about writing her memoir; Letters between Swift and BBC staff (early 1990s) concerning a possible dramatisation of the Pike Theatre / Rose Tattoo affair for television; full script of play written by Hugh Leonard entitled "The Rose Tattoo Affair" based on Swift and Alan Simpson's experiences at the Pike in the 1950s; other letters with Michael Imison Playwrights Ltd. re. rights and writing of the book;

Typed draft of novel written by Carolyn Swift, entitled 'The Big Wheel'.
Also includes correspondence between Swift and literary agents, Christy and Moore Ltd. London, and A.D. Peters London.

File with book reviews written by Carolyn Swift and published in various magazines and publications. Reviews include 'Prick Up Your Ears' by John Lahr, a biography of Joe Orton, published in Hibernia Magazine; 'The Old Jest' written by Jennifer Johnston (appears to be a review for radio); Text of review for radio by Swift of books for children, 'A Storyteller's Childhood', 'Land of The Tales', and 'The Big Push'; text of radio review by Swift for 'The Importance of Being Micheál: A Portrait of Mac Liammóir' by Micheál Ó hAodha; text of review for radio by Swift of a biography of Annie Horniman written by Sheila Goodie.

Files with texts of obituaries written by Carolyn Swift and published in the Irish Times. Obituaries are of notable cultural figures.

File 1: Text of published obituary for choreographer Ninette De Valois and of theatre director Tomas Mac Anna, with research notes on both by Swift.

File 2: Text of published obituary for theatre director Deirdre O'Connell of the Focus Theatre Dublin, and for actor Normal Rodway. with research notes on both by Swift.

File 3: Text of published obituary for actors Emaon Kelly, Milo 'Shea, and Joe Lynch, with researchj notes on all three by Swift.

File 4 - Includes news articles and notices on the deaths of cultural figures (not all written by Swift). Includes 'Bill Skinner - An Appreciation" by Swift; 'George Desmond Hodnett - An Appreciation' by Swift; Norman Cohen - An Appreciation" by Swift; "Remembering Austin Byrne" by Swift; news articles on the passing of actor Aiden Grenell; Donal McCann (with funeral mass booklet), Tony Doyle, memorial mass leaflet from funeral of Patrick Bedford; mass booklet from service of funeral of Cecil Harmsworth King.

Typescript loose leaf script of The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan and from production at the Pike Theatre, Dublin, 1954. Script is typed and is heavily annotated by Carolyn Swift with details and information on stage directions, edits, cues and related notes on the production of the play. Edits and additional pages and part-pages are stapled in by Swift throughout the script.