LOSS OF DUBLIN’S ABBEY THEATRE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26491, 4 August 1951, Page 2

LOSS OF DUBLIN’S ABBEY THEATRE

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Tbe announcement that Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre was burnt down on July 17 will be received with regret in many lands and by many travellers who nave enjoyed there fine of Irish plays played by It iZbeSeved that Yeats, at the suggestion of the playwright Lady Gregory. set on foot the movement to establish the theatre. After some failures with English actors, the nucleus of an Irish company was formed by Messrs W. G. and Frank FayIn the theatre, some of the world’s most distinguished actors and actresses have played, and in it have been staged plays by Yeats, J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Sean O’Casey, Padraic Column and Lennox Robinson. The theatre was presented to the Irish National Theatre Society about 1904 by an Englishwoman. Miss A. E. Horniman. a lover of the Theatre who was impressed by the work of the Irish players who, at that tima were receiving no payment for their services. Miss Horniman died in 1937. She was probably the only woman whose biography in. “Who's Who” stated that her recreation was mending her clothes.