Teresa Deevy

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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.

Milestones

21 January 1894

TD was born in Waterford, at her parents' house in Passage Road, the youngest in a family of thirteen children.
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/.

16 March 1936

TD had her great success with the play Katie Roche, which after its debut at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, was in 1938 seen both at the Abbey's festival (alongside work by O'Casey and Shaw ) and on its tour of England and the USA.
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/.

19 January 1963

TD died at Maypark Nursing Home in Waterford.
McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. http://dib.cambridge.org/.

Biography

Deevy's pseudonym is highly coded. D. V. not only reproduces the sound of her actual name, but was in popular use, especially by devout Catholics, to signify deo volente, God willing. The name therefore suggests: This will be good, God willing, or God grant this may be good.

Birth and Family