Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh Additional Papers (2002) ,

1907-1958.

Papers of actress and republican Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh. Includes letters and cards sent to Nic Shiubhlaigh from friends and associates including Padraic Colum, Alice Milligan, Lennox Robinson, Joseph Holloway and Seumas O'Sullivan. Also included are typescripts of plays by, amongst others, Lady Gregory, Seumas O'Kelly and Alice Milligan, theatre programmes, documentation relating to her radio broadcasting work and drafts of lectures and autobiographical writings that relate to her involvement with the theatre movement in Ireland, the early years of the Abbey Theatre and her participation in the Easter Rising.

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Main Creator: Nic Shiubhlaigh, Máire, 1883-1958
Contributors: Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972
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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Subjects:
Nic Shiubhlaigh, Máire, > 1883-1958
Abbey Theatre
English drama > Irish authors > 20th century
Theater > Ireland > 20th century.
Ireland > History > Easter Rising, 1916
Notes:Associated Materials: Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Ireland. There are additional Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh manuscripts held in the Department of Manuscripts; MS 27,618-27,635 and MS 22,562-22,575

Physical description: 1 box.

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Arrangement:Fonds
I. Scripts and essays; II. Correspondence; III. Programmes; IV. Memoirs and autobiographical writings; V. Miscellaneous papers and printings.
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II.i.2. Correspondence between Lennox Robinson and Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh concerning the history of the Abbey Theatre,

1949.
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Bibliographic Details
In Collection: Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh Additional Papers (2002), 1907-1958.
Description:Contains a typescript letter from dramatist and theatre producer Lennox Robinson to actress Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh asking her help with his writing of an offical history of the Abbey Theatre. Attached is a manuscirpt draft of Nic Shiubhlaigh's reply, outlining her recollections of the early days of the Abbey Theatre and the theatre movement in Dublin, including her initial dealings with Maud Gonne and William Fay through Inghinidhe na hÉireann.
Also included is a more complete account of Nic Shiulbhlaigh's involvement in the theatre scene in Dublin from 1898, her participation in the first productions of 'The Shadow of the Glen' and 'The Hour Glass', and her recollections of W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.
Main Creator: Robinson, Lennox, 1886-1958
Extent:19 pages; 2 folders.
Format:Manuscript
Call Number: MS 49,752/18 (Manuscripts Reading Room)
Rights:Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.