O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962.
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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 | 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 |
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... |
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 | 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: Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan ODay, Routledge, 2004, pp. 113-27. 123 |
Performance of text | John Millington Synge | JMS
's final three-act play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, which he worked and reworked but left unfinished, was staged at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Saddlemyer, Ann. “Introduction and Chronology”. The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. ix - xxvi. xxvi Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982. 138 |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | The Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, produced AG
's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, translated from Molière
's Le médecin malgré lui, the first of her Molière translations.. 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. x |
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. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
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, 2003. McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
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. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline, Introduction |
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 | Teresa Deevy | The Abbey Theatre
put on TD
's powerful new one-act play entitled The King of Spain's Daughter. The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline McGuire, James, and James Quinn, editors. Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009, http://dib.cambridge.org/. |
Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Lady Gregory
and W. B. Yeats
produced GBS
's The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxv |
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