File relating to the writing and publication of book 'World Myths and Tales' by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press, Dublin.

Includes manuscript research notes and copy pages used by Swift in researching the book, a draft front cover of the book, and typed draft of the book by Swift which is heavily annotated with manuscript edits by Swift.

Files relating to activities of the Writers Guild U.K. with minutes of meetings (particularly in mid - late 1970s), meeting agendas, press releases from campaigns and statements by and from Writers Guild U.K., subscription information, correspondence to members, campaigns and agreements with BBC on writing and production.
File also includes printed pamphlets including annual reports, tax guides for writers, registers of publications, rules of the guild, and general information on the guild.

Files with print copies of newsletter/newspaper for members published by the Writers Guild UK. Issues of Writers' News' begin in 1973 - 1978 and 'The Writers' Newsletter' with issues between 1987 - 1991.

Typed articles, some with manuscript edits and annotations, by Carolyn Swift, written about her television and radio work, and published in the RTÉ Guide Magazine. File includes remittance slips for payments to Swift for her articles in the RTÉ Guide. Articles include:
Getting Around in Tolka Row
Tolka Row Celebrates its 150th Birthday
The Growing Community of Tolka Row
For Use With "The Girl From Mayo"
For Use With First of 'Looking at Drama' series
The Glorious Uncertainty
The Country Boy
A Cruel Fondness
Partners in Practice
Setting Up Sallybawn
I'm Getting Out of This Kip
Is Your Play Really Necessary?
Show Business
Marie Rambert - Inspired and Trained Some of the Leading Choreographers and Dancers of Our Time
Why Not Reconsider That Paris Holiday?
Paris - Europe's Entertainment Capital
Classical Feast For Dublin Balletomanes (Note: published in Sunday Independent?)
Alicia Markova: Classical Influences on English Ballet
Is There a Playwright in the House?
The Cooney Experiment?

File with writings including short stories and play adaptations for television and radio serialised in magazines. File includes episode texts of the adaptation of Tolka Row originally by Maura Laverty, and of An Triail/OnTrial originally by Máiréad Ní Ghráda. Includes letters between Swift and the Laverty estate discussing publication rights; Letters between Swift and editor of Irish Women's Journal and the editor of Woman's Way magazine, discussing the publication of work by Swift based on Laverty's earlier work; also letters between Swift and producer Chloe Gibson. Also compliments Slips from the Woman's Way to Swift, with details of payments to Swift and publication information.
Notes on On Trial' for publicity purposes by Swift; texts of each part of Swift's adaptation of On Trial.

File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the topic of Ireland, personal and family, and general themes. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
The Museum of Childhood
Vanishing Dublin
Manders Mills
The Memorial Park
Travelling Light
How To Avoid Sunburn
The Potency of Music
The New Nature Reserve at Slievecarran
The Power of Myth
The Egestorff Museum
The Anarchy of Driving
The Souls of Old Dublin
Cute Kiddies!
The Ancient Craft of The Coopers
Are We Changed by Our Clothes?
The Receding Horizons of Age
The Day my Grandparents Stopped Changing for Dinner
Looking Up!
Say It With Flowers
Literary Detection
Dinosaurs of the New Ice Age
Old Fashions in Old Films
Religious and Political Symbols
Dying Traditions of Urban Societies
Cyrus The Great and the First Charter of Human Rights
Anna Maria Hall
Charlotte Grace O'Malley
Spiders
The Virtue of Whiskey

File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the topic of Ireland, personal and family, and general themes. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
The Antique Department
One-Way Streets in Wexford
My Grandmother and Madras
The Fine Art of Milking the Tourist
Superstition, Saints, and Suntan
Do You Believe In Ghosts
Visual Illiteracy
The Case of The Moving Haystacks
Birthday Greetings From a Famous Author
Masks
Meeting the Locals
The Rossiters of Rathmacknee
A Twelfth Century Woman Writer and Composer Who Should Have been a Saint
Wildlife in Our Parks
The Big House of Clarinbridge
The French Drop-Out We Remember at Christmas
The Pet Named After a Planet
It Could Have Been Here
Doctors Don't Differ on Dieting
Back To The Pony and Trap
Cooking By Volcano
A Moving Experience
The Vicar Of Bray and The Archbishop of Cashel
The Shield of David
Mythology and Folklore
Setting Off International Crises
The First Novel Ever Written

File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the topic of Ireland, personal and family, and general themes. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
The Scholar Surgeon
The Real Diplomatic Service
Washing In The Ways Of Our Fathers
Bird's Eye View
Potholes of the World Unite
Nature's Sympathy With the Poet's Mood
The Perils of Fancy Dress
The One That Got Away
The Man Who Sought And Found Notoriety
The Peaceful Invasion
Religious and Political Symbols
Our Cousins The Jews
Reaching the Heavens
Colette
Old Fashions In Old Films

File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the topic of Ireland, personal and family, and general themes. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
Dunbrody Abbey
The One That Got Away
Tradition Vs Progress
The Rose of Drimnagh
A Holiday Romance
Difficulties in Identifying A Malady
A Trip To Wexford
Places That Feel Like Home
Surnames
Why I Never Wear Boots
Airing Our Likes and Dislikes
Innocently Insulting Other Races
Wrestling On TV
The Search For Longevity
The Tortoise Versus Stone Age Man
The Fascination of Flowers

File of writings by Carolyn Swift which were contributions for the RTÉ Radio 1 programme, 'Sunday Miscellany' and broadly on the theme of theatre. Note: written pieces are individually undated and some contain handwritten edits by Swift. Pieces by Swift in this file include:
A Play From The Old Stock
Tullira Castle and the Birth of the Abbey Theatre
Old Theatre Buildings and Their Acoustics
The Ghost of Pantos Past
A Hamlet of the World of Dance
Going to the Theatre in Japan
Memories of Mac
Pupper People
The Irish Swan Lake
Women in the Irish Theatre
The Drama Critic
Women's Roles in Plays - And Out of Them
Godot In The Pike [Theatre]