O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962.
116-17
Abbey Theatre
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | The only new TD
play seen in connection with the Abbey
, Dublin, after the rejection of Wife to James Whelan was Light Falling (already heard on radio), staged by Ria Mooney
and the... |
| Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | It ran for seven performances, and was printed in the Irish Literary Journal. An Abbey
revival on 23 August 1937 ran for six performances. The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline “Playwrights. Teresa Deevy”. The Playwrights Database, 2003. |
| 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 et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xvii |
| 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 |
Timeline
1905: The Theatre of Ireland was formed as an offshoot...
Building item
1905
The Theatre of Ireland
was formed as an offshoot of the Irish National Dramatic Society
at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, because many nationalists believed the theatre group should have a political agenda.
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
1
12 April 1923: The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey,...
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12 April 1923
The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey
, labourer and IRA
member, took off when his play The Shadow of a Gunman was produced at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, which had by...
3 March 1924: Sean O'Casey followed his first success at...
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3 March 1924
Sean O'Casey
followed his first success at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, with a play about war entitled Juno and the Paycock.
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2016, pp. 11-23. 22
August 1925: Sean O'Casey submitted to the Abbey Theatre,...
Writing climate item
August 1925
Sean O'Casey
submitted to the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, the first and only play to deal with the topic of the Easter Rising of 1916: The Plough and the Stars.
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2016, pp. 11-23. 22
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