O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Employer | Maya Angelou | In Cairo the African-American journalist David Du Bois
helped MA
to get a job as assistant editor on a new English-language weekly called the Arab Observer (the only non-male, non-Arab, non-Muslim on its staff). In... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | Sean O'Casey
submitted his first play to the Abbey
in 1919, and became friendly with AG
in 1924 during the successful Abbey run of his play Juno and the Paycock. He was invited to... |
Friends, Associates | John Millington Synge | JMS
's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats
and Augusta, Lady Gregory
, who ran the Irish National Theatre
. Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton
, John Masefield |
Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | As a student in Dublin, KOB
eagerly attended the Abbey Theatre
. This was a period between Synge
and O'Casey
, but she delighted in plays by Shaw
, beginning with Man and Superman. O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962. 116-17 |
Occupation | Augusta Gregory | With the financial support of Annie Horniman
, AG
and the Irish Literary Theatre
secured a permanent home: the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, 2004, pp. 113 - 27. 123 |
Occupation | John Millington Synge | In 1904, A. E. Horniman
, an Englishwoman who admired Yeats's dedication to Irish theatre, paid for the renovation of two buildings on Abbey Street and Marlborough Street, Dublin, and offered them free to... |
Performance of text | John Millington Synge | He had begun writing this play in the summer of 1902, staying with his mother and relatives at a farmhouse in Tomriland, Wicklow, and by October had shown a version to the Theatre Society... |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's popular comedy about village gossip, Spreading the News, was performed alongside Yeats
's On Baile's Strand and their co-written Cathleen Ni Houlihan for the opening of the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. McDiarmid, Lucy, Maureen Waters, and Augusta Gregory. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xvii |
Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | Dublin's Abbey Theatre
, new home of the Irish National Theatre Society
, opened with WBY
's On Baile's Strand in a triple bill with Lady Gregory
's Spreading the News, and Cathleen ni Houlihan by them both. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's one-act comedy about madness and sanity, The Full Moon, was first performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii. xi |
Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | WBY
's last play, Purgatory, was performed at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, alongside a revival of the two plays produced when the theatre first opened, Cathleen ni Houlihan and On Baile's Strand. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 10 |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | A production of AG
's The Deliverer and Yeats
's The Hour-Glass at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin was the first to use screens designed by Edward Gordon-Craig
. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii. xi Innes, Christopher. Edward Gordon Craig. Cambridge University Press, 1983. 143, 221 |
Performance of text | W. B. Yeats | Augusta Gregory
collaborated with Yeats on a revised version of this play, The Unicorn from the Stars, which opened at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin on 21 November 1907. |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | For the first time the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin, persuaded by Lennox Robinson
, put on a production of a play by TD
: The Reapers in three acts. Robinson directed. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. |