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The streets were bright with sunshine as I stole into the Abbey Theatre for the first time. I had hesitated so long at the corner, watching the last of the small crowd hurry to the Saturday matinee, that I was already several minutes late. In some vague way, I had heard of Irish drama and its traditions, for knowledge of outside affairs comes painfully and confusedly to a young student living in the shadow of examinations.
Irish Digest (Dublin), 66 (Sept 1959) 77–9.
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Austin Clarke [Augustine Joseph] (1896–1974), poet, playwright and novelist. In 1940, he and Robert Farren founded the Dublin Verse-speaking Society which performed on radio and in the Abbey Theatre. In 1944, he founded with Farren the Lyric Theatre company which performed at the Abbey until the 1951 fire. At his death, he was generally considered the finest Irish poet of the generation after Yeats. His book Twice Round the Black Church: Early Memories of Ireland and England (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962) includes background to the Irish drama.
W. G. Fay and Catherine Carswell, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre: An Autobiographical Record (London: Rich & Cowan, 1935) p. 206.
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Clarke, A. (1988). My First Visit to the Abbey. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_31
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