Teresa Deevy

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Standard Name: Deevy, Teresa
TD was an Irish playwright of the earlier twentieth century, who also wrote stories, radio plays, and a children's book. A select bibliography lists fourteen stage plays (in three acts or one), and nine radio plays or playlets.
Deevy, Teresa. “Chapter One, Ineffable Longings: the Dramas of Teresa Deevy”. Selected Plays of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, 1894-1963, edited by Éibhear Walshe, Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 1-15.
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Her hitherto very successful theatre career seems to have foundered on the fact that her message about domestic oppression of women in rural Ireland was unacceptable to the Dublin public, or rather the Dublin elite.

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Deevy, Teresa. “Chapter One, Ineffable Longings: the Dramas of Teresa Deevy”. Selected Plays of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, 1894-1963, edited by Éibhear Walshe, Edwin Mellen Press, 2003, pp. 1-15.
Deevy, Teresa. “Katie Roche”. Famous Plays of 1935-6, Victor Gollancz Limited, 1936, pp. 607-1.
Deevy, Teresa. “Temporal Powers”. The Journal of Irish Literature, No. 18-75.
Deevy, Teresa. “The King of Spain’s Daughter”. Theatre Arts.
Deevy, Teresa. “The Wild Goose”. Three Plays, Macmillan, 1939.
Deevy, Teresa. Three Plays. Macmillan, 1939.
Deevy, Teresa. “Wife to James Whelan”. Irish University Review, No. 25, 1995, pp. 29-87.