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Thu 11 Nov 2002Life of Carolyn Swift celebrated by theatre and media worldsMany of the great, most of the good were there. They had come to celebrate, not so much commemorate, a comprehensive life rounded by Spiked, as producer Brian De Salvo told them. Spiked: Church-State Intrigue and The Rose Tattoo was the book she had written with Gerard Whelan. It was published while Carolyn Swift lay "eyeballing death" in the hospice at Harold's Cross Dublin.Last Saturday, he said, she sailed into her rest, where, as with namesake Jonathan Swift, "savage indignation cannot lacerate her breast. Imitate her if you dare world-besotted traveller. She loved human liberty."