Abbey Theatre

AG published an historical account of the Abbey Theatre entitled Our Irish Theatre, subtitled A Chapter of Autobiography.

Augusta Gregory was a highly energetic and creative force in the Irish Literary Revival, which began in the late nineteenth century. Material from her collections and translations of Irish folklore, epics, and oral poetry inspired...

In 1895 Robert was awarded a scholarship to attend Harrow and study the classics. After an undistinguished career there, he went on to Oxford , where he became an amateur boxer. Later he aspired to...

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...

By AG 's own account, she learned to write plays by contributing bits of dialogue, when wanted for various Abbey playwrights, especially Yeats . Through these collaborations with Yeats—on the structures and plots of...

AG wrote several first-rate comedies (many of them set in the fictional Irish village of Cloon), yet she found them difficult and was often apologetic about writing them. She claimed to have created them primarily...

The second of these was the play which had not only appeared alone in print but had also been staged, in October 1893. A decade after that, in 1903, William Butler Yeats had turned down...

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.

TD 's second play to open at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin was her one-act comedy A Disciple.

TD 's third play in thirty months premiered at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin: Temporal Powers, called by Chris Morash her first major play.

The Abbey Theatre put on TD 's powerful new one-act play entitled The King of Spain's Daughter.

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

TD 's next play for the Abbey Theatre (after her hit, Katie Roche), turned from the present to the past: The Wild Goose, set in 1692 with the oppression of the Penal Laws...

Ernest Blythe , the new managing director of the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, rejected TD 's latest play, Wife to James Whelan.

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...