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When Seumas O’Sullivan saw at the Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin, the first performance of W. B. Yeats’ verse play, The Countess Cathleen , amongst the audience was James Joyce. What neither of them was aware of, as they watched the performance of The Countess Cathleen , was that it was to be responsible for the formation of the Irish Players and the founding of the Abbey Theatre.
Irish Digest (Dublin), 28 (Oct 1947) 30–2.
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See Gabriel Fallon, ‘The Genius of W. G. Fay’, Irish Monthly (Dublin), 75 (Dec 1949), 505–8;
T. G. K[eller], ‘The Fays of the Abbey Theatre’, Dublin Magazine , 10 (Oct 1935) 89–90;
Gabriel Fallon, ‘Tribute to the Fays’, Irish Monthly (Dublin), 73 (Jan 1945) 18–24;
W. G. Fay and Catherine Carswell, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre: An Autobiographical Record (London: Rich & Cowan, 1935).
In ‘The Irish Literary Theatre’, United Irishman (Dublin), 6 (2 Nov 1901) 2, Frank Fay argued against English actors performing Irish plays.
For a while the Fay brothers took on the stage names of W. G. Ormond and Frank Evelyn, and in 1892 the name ‘Ormond Dramatic Society’ was adopted for their company.
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Fay, W.G. (1988). How We Began the Abbey. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_4
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