#abbey theatre
To coincide with Howard Davies’ production of Sean O'Casey’s The Silver Tassie, I produced this short film looking at the playwright’s relationship with the Abbey Theatre which came to an abrupt end with this play.
Over the past few weeks Ireland has suddenly found itself in a heated debate around the term ‘homophobia’ after an interview with, and subsequent censorship of, Rory O'Neill (AKA Panti Bliss) on The Saturday Night Show. This discussion is no longer about the proposed referendum on marriage equality, it has become a question of equality - something that is not true for Irish gay men, gay women, women and other minority groups.
Ireland is a beautiful country, and the homophobia is not the type present in many other countries around the world but there has to be change. And thankfully there are people like Rory O'Neill who are not afraid to have an open discussion about it.
#OTD in 1932 – Death of Augusta Persse, better known as Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre director; also a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre.
#OTD in 1932 – Death of Augusta Persse, better known as Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre director; also a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre.
Lady Gregory was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre director; also a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre.
George Bernard Shaw once described Lady Augusta Gregory as “the greatest living Irishwoman”.
Lady Gregory, also known as Isabella Augusta, was born on 15 March 1852, in Roxborough, Co Galway. She married Sir William Henry Gregory in 1880. Sir Gregory owned an estate at Coole Park near…
The greatest Playboy of them all? by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Via Flickr:
Arthur Shields as “The Playboy” must have been a wonderful theatrical experience? One of the great Abbey actors, playing one of the iconic roles from Irish Theatre, captured here. Photographer: Harry C. Phibbs Date: 1933 NLI Ref: AB9 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
