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My First Abbey Play

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The Abbey Theatre

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Recently I was reading Lady Gregory’s Journals 1 edited by Lennox Robinson. Old memories came flooding back as I read the book.

Condensed from Irish Writing (Cork), no. 16 (Sept 1951) 43–6.

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  1. Winifred M. Letts (1882–1972), poet, playwright and fiction writer. Her other writings on the Abbey Theatre include ’The Fays at the Abbey Theatre’, Fortnightly (London), no. 978 (June 1948) 420–3;

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  2. ‘Early Days at the Abbey’, Irish Digest (Dublin), 31 (Sept 1948) 8–11;

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  3. ‘When the Abbey Was Young’, Ireland of the Welcomes (Dublin), 1 (July–Aug 1952) 9–11.

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  4. Lady Gregory, Journals, 1916–1930 , ed. Lennox Robinson (London: G. P. Putnam, 1946).

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  5. Riders to the Sea , by J. M. Synge, was first presented by the Irish National Theatre Society at the Molesworth Hall on 25 Feb 1904. Sara Allgood was not the mother (Maurya), but the daughter Cathleen. Winifred Letts is probably referring to a later revival at the Abbey Theatre.

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  6. See Christopher Murray, ‘Three Letters from Lady Gregory’, Prompts (Dublin), no. 1 (June 1981) 5–7.

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  7. See Daniel J. Casey, ‘George Shiels: The Enigmatic Playwright’, in Irish Renaissance Annual IV , ed. Zack Bowen (Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1983) pp. 17–41;

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  8. Micheál Ó hAodha, ‘The Amazing Mr Shiels’, Irish Times (Dublin) 14 May 1981, p. 10.

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  9. See R. M. Fox, ‘Maureen Delany Takes a Bow’, Irish Digest (Dublin), 29 (Dec 1947) 21–3;

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  10. Kees Van Hock, ‘Vignette: Maureen Delany’, Irish Times (Dublin), 5 Aug 1950, p. 4;

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  11. Maeve Barrington, ‘Queen of the Abbey Theatre’, Irish Digest (Dublin), 54 (Oct 1955) 29–31.

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  1. University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

    E. H. Mikhail (Professor of English) (Professor of English)

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Letts, W. (1988). My First Abbey Play. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_10

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