This work was awarded, jointly with Paul Vincent Carroll
's Things that are Caesar's, the Abbey
's prize for new playwrights. It was revived at the Abbey
in late August 1937. Frank O'Connor
wrote...
Literary responses
Teresa Deevy
Lennox Robinson
and Frank O'Connor
remained strong supporters of TD
's stage writing, but W. B. Yeats
felt she was wrong not to accept more help with revision. A study of her plays by John Jordan
Literary responses
Mary Lavin
This prompted Frank O'Connor
to say that from a patriotic point of view one ML
story about the revolution is more than enough.
