O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford.
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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. 116-17 |
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... |
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: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, pp. 113-27. 123 |
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. http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's one-act tragedy The Gaol Gate 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, p. v - xiii. x |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | TD
's second play to open at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin was her one-act comedy A Disciple. “Playwrights. Teresa Deevy”. The Playwrights Database. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | AG
's play The Rising of the Moon was produced at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. ix |
Performance of text | Seamus Heaney | SH
's version of the Antigone of Sophocles
opened at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin. Its title, The Burial at Thebes, echoes in structure his earlier translation The Cure at Troy. Billington, Michael. “The Burial at Thebes”. Guardian Online. |
Performance of text | Jennifer Johnston | It was first produced at the Abbey Theatre
in Dublin in 1979. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. “Jennifer Johnston”. doollee.com. Playwrights. |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | TD
's third play in thirty months premiered at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin: Temporal Powers, called by Chris Morash
her first major play. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/. The Teresa Deevy Archive. http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline, Introduction |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | The Unicorn from the Stars, co-written by AG
and W. B. Yeats
, was produced at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. x |
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