_Joseph Nestor_ F. J. FAY _Michael Cooney_ W. G. FAY _Mrs. Broderick_ SARA ALLGOOD _Tommy Nally_ ARTHUR SINCLAIR _Sibby Fahy_ BRIGIT O'DEMPSEY _Timothy Ward_ J. M. KERRIGAN
THE RISING OF THE MOON was first produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 9th March, 1907, with the following cast:
_Sergeant_ ARTHUR SINCLAIR _Policeman X._ J. A. O'ROURKE _Policeman B._ J. M. KERRIGAN _Ballad Singer_ W. G. FAY
WORKHOUSE WARD was first produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 20th April, 1908, with the following cast:
_Mike M'Inerney_ ARTHUR SINCLAIR _Michael Miskell_ FRED O'DONOVAN _Mrs. Donohue_ MARIE O'NEILL
Author of "Seven Short Plays" "Our Irish Theatre" "Irish Folk-History Plays," etc.
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This play deals with the adventures of the King of Ireland's son, who goes in search of the Golden Apple of Healing. The scenes are laid in the Witch's Garden, the Giant's House, the Wood of Wonders, and the King of Ireland's Room. It is both humorous and lyrical, and should please children and their elders, alike. The colored illustrations have the same old faery-tale air as the play itself.
THE CANAVANS THE WHITE COCKADE THE DELIVERER
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Lady Gregory has preferred going for her material to the traditional folk-history rather than to the authorized printed versions, and she has been able, in so doing, to make her plays more living. One of these, Kincora, telling of Brian Boru, who reigned in the year 1000, evoked such keen local interest that an old farmer travelled from the neighborhood of Kincora to see it acted in Dublin.
The story of Grania, on which Lady Gregory has founded one of these plays, was taken entirely from tradition. Grania was a beautiful young woman and was to have been married to Finn, the great leader of the Fenians; but before the marriage, she went away from the bridegroom with his handsome young kinsman, Diarmuid. After many years, when Diarmuid had died (and Finn had a hand in his death), she went back to Finn and became his queen.
Another of Lady Gregory's plays, The Canavans dealt with the stormy times of Queen Elizabeth, whose memory is a horror in Ireland second only to that of Cromwell.