THE ATHENAEUMOur Irish TheatreLady Gregory
History
Our Irish Theatre
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textLady Gregory’s account of how she, Yeats and Edward Martyn founded the Irish Literary Theatre in 1899, and how it became the Abbey. It covers the Playboy riots, and the company’s tour of America in 1911 and 1912, where the play caused riots again. She wrote it in 1913, while it was all still happening.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 35 min
- Where to find it
- On the History shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #65953. In the public domain in the United States.