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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IV.iv. Manuscript draft of an autobiographical account of actress Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh's early life,

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Bibliographic Details
In Collection: Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh Additional Papers (2002), 1907-1958.
Description:Nic Shiubhlaigh provides an account of her early life in Dublin and Co. Carlow, her family's recollections of the Parnellite split in Carlow where her father worked on the newspaper 'The Carlow Vindicator', her return to Dublin, and subsequent involvement with both the Gaelic League and Inginidhe na hÉireann and her first appearance on stage as part of the Inginidhe na hÉireann's Tableaux of Irish History. An incomplete draft.
Main Creator: Nic Shiubhlaigh, Máire, 1883-1958
Extent:12 pp.
Format:Manuscript
Call Number: MS 49,752/35 (Manuscripts Reading Room)
Rights:Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.