🎭 If you're in the northeast or Chicago this April, our friend and former guest Paddy Cullivan is touring his acclaimed one-man show — The Murder of Michael Collins: Life • Death • Legacy.

📅 April 3 Portland ME | April 4 Boston | April 8 Port Jefferson NY | April 9–10 NYC | April 14 Chicago

Tickets and info at the links in the flyer. Support independent Irish theater— and a terrific performer! 🇮🇪

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The Druid Theatre in Galway - how have I never been there??

This article is actually about one of the founders, Garry Hynes; but gives a lot of the backstory to how the Druid Theatre came to be and gives you some idea of the kind of work it does.

I followed a link from an article in the Irish Times in which someone said that the production of Macbeth they have on is the best they've ever seen in their life.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/2025/07/12/garry-hynes-my-wife-was-taken-from-me-in-the-blink-of-an-eye-my-whole-lifes-changed/

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1) Last week, we recorded our first #podcast episode in front of a live audience. The subject was #theater in #NorthernIreland. Big thanks to Ryan's Daughter for hosting us, and The Northern Ireland Bureau and Origin Theatre for sponsoring the evening

What was intended to be one episode became two because the conversations proved so compelling.

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The Shadow Of A Gunman by Seán O'Casey was premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 12th April 1923. It is the first in O'Casey's "Dublin Trilogy" - the other two being Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).

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Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin on 30th March 1880. He was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

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The world premiere of Sean O’Casey’s Juno And The Paycock took place at the Abbey Theatre on 3rd March 1924.

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The first performance of Seán O'Casey's the Plough and the Stars took place at the Abbey theatre on 8 February 1926. The play was well received on its opening night. But on subsequent nights audience unrest began and on 11 February Cumann na mBan and Sinn Féin members rioted at perceived insults to the men who had died during the Rising.

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The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in Mayo during the early 1900s. It tells the story of Christy Mahon, a young man running away from his farm, claiming he killed his father.

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The Quare Fellow, Brendan Behan's first play, was first performed at the Pike Theatre, Dublin on 19 November 1954.

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