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🕰️ Closing date for applications is 15 April 2026

📸 Ros Kavanagh

#JobFairy #AbbeyTheatre #Opportunity #IrishTheatre

Two tickets for The Plough and the Stars

Watching this in the same theatre it first ran in 100 years ago. Makes you feel some kinda way 💚

#AbbeyTheatre #IrishTheatre

We were saddened to hear of the passing of Brendan Foreman, former resident graphic designer at the #AbbeyTheatre. His vibrant, striking posters captured the spirit of Irish theatre + design. The National Library is proud to preserve several of his works in our collection: https://ow.ly/SWft50YpKm2

"It's nearly time we had a little less respect for the dead, an' a little more regard for the living."

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 3 March 1924, the second play of #SeanOCasey's "Dublin Trilogy", JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, premiered at the #AbbeyTheatre, #Dublin.

"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.“

100th Anniversary 🎭 #OTD in #Theatre 8 Feb 1926, the 3rd play in #SeánOCasey's Dublin Trilogy, the 4-Act THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS, addressing the 1916 Easter Rising, premiered at the #AbbeyTheatre.

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 26 January 1907, #JMSynge's THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD premiered at the #AbbeyTheatre, Dublin. Famously, riots broke out over the perceived immorality of the play, which spread out across Dublin. Quite the opening night.

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 27 December 1904, the #AbbeyTheatre
in #Dublin opened with three performances, which included the premieres of #WBYeats' "On Baile's Strand" and #LadyGregory's "Spreading the News."

Hugh Linehan: Is the newspaper arts review dying or could it be rescued by subscribers? If one culprit looms behind these shifts, it is the early digital consensus that everything should be free

Is the newspaper arts review dying or could it be rescued by subscribers? @irishtimes.com #abbeytheatre

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Finally saw a show @abbeytheatre.bsky.social

Such a wonderful building. So much history

Marina Carr, Catriona McLaughlin & Eileen Walsh 🇮🇪👍🏻

#abbeytheatre

National Library of Ireland for WB Yeats and Abbey Theatre founding.
#wbyeats #abbeytheatre

“Compliments pass when the quality meet.”

🎭#OTD in #Theatre #History 10 October 1967, #FrankMcMahon's stage adaptation of #BrendanBehan's 1958 autobiographical novel "Borstal Boy" premiered at the #AbbeyTheatre in #Dublin.

I'm sensing another #AbbeyTheatre statement tour de force is just about due.

Please 🙏👌💐

BÁN - Abbey Theatre Carys D. Coburn's new play comes to the Abbey Theatre as part of 2025 at the National Theatre of Stories programme

🎟️ Running 30 September – 8 November 2025 on the Peacock Stage. Book tickets now: www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/ban/

#AbbeyTheatre #WorldPremiere #NewWriting

Letter from Ireland (updated 6.30.25 with a link to Chloe Garcia Roberts' interview with Fanny Howe for THE PARIS REVIEW) At the Abbey's production of Youth's the Season, a play by Mary Manning (mother of Fanny Howe and Susan Howe and grandmother of Danzy Senna)

On the occasion of publication of Chloe Garcia Roberts' terrific PARIS REVIEW interview with Fanny Howe, I am sharing my "Letter from Ireland." #fannyhowe #marymanning #abbeytheatre #parisreview #ireland #boston substack.com/@lindaenorto...

#SFFP #SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #OnlinewithSFFP #SilentFilm #IrishCinema #FilmHistory #WomenInFilm #AbbeyTheatre #VeronicaJohnson #FilmCompanyOfIreland #EasterRising
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#SFFP #SanFranciscoFilmPreserve #OnlinewithSFFP #SilentFilm #IrishCinema #FilmHistory #WomenInFilm #AbbeyTheatre #VeronicaJohnson #FilmCompanyOfIreland #EasterRising
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Once again thank you #BooksontheHill St Albans for promoting the #AbbeyTheatre. Great Expectations opens next Friday, as you can see from this ghostly image of the novel! If you're nearby, book now for a sparkling adaptation of a well loved tale. #dickens
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Time To Write - Abbey Theatre Time To Write is a monthly gathering for playwrights and performance makers working on a writing project in the heart of Dublin

Share this post with any creatives who you think would love this opportunity 🙌

#AbbeyTheatre #Coworking #TimeToWrite #IrishTheatre

“She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.” (Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland)

☘️✒️ Augusta, #LadyGregory, Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, patron of #WBYeats and co-founder of the #AbbeyTheatre, #DOTD 22 May 1932. #Theatre

McLaughlin will also direct J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World for the National Theatre in London later this year.

🔗Read more on our website: www.abbeytheatre.ie/abbey-theatr...

#AbbeyTheatre #NationalTheatre #TomMurphy #JMSynge

🗞️ GLOWING praise for Youth's the Season - ? on the Abbey Stage.

Join us for this dazzling tragicomedy about the bright young things of 1930s Dublin. Tickets available from €15: www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/you...

📸 Ros Kavanagh

#AbbeyTheatre #IrishTheatre

The Boy and Dublin Gothic will be on sale in coming weeks.

The Abbey Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of The Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon

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#NationalTheatreOfStories #AbbeyTheatre #IrishTheatre #Announcement

Laois Teen Stars On Abbey Theatre Stage For Laura Lynn Production Rathdowney's Harry Hoare was one of the five children involved in today's production.

Rathdowney's Harry Hoare can now call himself an Abbey Theatre performer ✨
#Midlands103News #Laois #Rathdowney #AbbeyTheatre
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A middle aged O'Casey sitting a a typewriter in a shirt tie and jumper.

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

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #SeanOCasey #JunoAndThePaycock #AbbeyTheatre #OnThisDay

"It's nearly time we had a little less respect for the dead, an' a little more regard for the living."

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 3 March 1924, the second play of #SeanOCasey's "Dublin Trilogy", JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, premiered at the #AbbeyTheatre, #Dublin.

My 4 sisters and I went to see #Milk at the #AbbeyTheatre tonight.

A deeply moving, visceral performance about grief and war, it was created by Bashar Markus and Khulood Basel and performed by the Khashabi Theatre, based in Haifa, #Palestine.

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. 2/2

#SeánOCasey #ThePloughAndTheStars #AbbeyTheatre #Ireland #IrishTheatre #CumannNamBan #SinnFéin #EasterRising #OnThisDay

Time for the weekly round-up of job opportunities available on our website
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#Chadwicks
@ccpcireland.bsky.social
#dublinsimoncommunity
@irishexport.bsky.social
@hiveagencydub.bsky.social
#abbeytheatre
@lawsocireland.bsky.social

🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 26 January 1907, #JMSynge's THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD premiered at the #AbbeyTheatre, #Dublin. Famously, riots broke out over the perceived immorality of the play, which spread out across Dublin. Quite the opening night.

A head and shoulders shot of Lady Gregory.

The Abbey Theatre opened on 27th December 1904 with productions of Yeats' “On Baile’s Strand” and “Cathleen ni Houlihan”, as well as Lady Gregory’s “Spreading the News”.

#OnThisDay #Ireland #IrishHistory #Theatre #AbbeyTheatre #Dublin #WBYeats #LadyGregory