📚 We’ve catalogued a copy of the 1st US edition of The Image and Other Plays by Lady Gregory. Copy is inscribed by #LadyGregory to New York lawyer & arts patron John Quinn, a supporter of figures like #JMSynge, #WBYeats & #JamesJoyce. It also bears Quinn’s striking bookplate designed by #JackYeats.

OUTDOOR THEATRE
One Performance Only
IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN by JM SYNGE
22 AUGUST @ 8PM
Sligo LETS Organic Gardens

Synge’s macabre black comedy, set in an isolated cottage.

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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...

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"Isn't there the light of seven heavens in your heart alone, the way you'll be an angel's lamp to me from this out, and I abroad in the darkness, spearing salmons in the Owen, or the Carrowmore?"

✒️ #JMSynge, Irish author, poet, and playwright, was #BOTD 16 April 1871.
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🔴 #1830 #victorhugo 's play "Hernani" premieres in Paris

🔴 #1892 #jmbarrie 's stage play "Walker London" premieres in London

🔴 #1904 #jmsynge 's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish National Theater Society

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