Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh Additional Papers (2002) ,

1907-1958.

Papers of actress and republican Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh. Includes letters and cards sent to Nic Shiubhlaigh from friends and associates including Padraic Colum, Alice Milligan, Lennox Robinson, Joseph Holloway and Seumas O'Sullivan. Also included are typescripts of plays by, amongst others, Lady Gregory, Seumas O'Kelly and Alice Milligan, theatre programmes, documentation relating to her radio broadcasting work and drafts of lectures and autobiographical writings that relate to her involvement with the theatre movement in Ireland, the early years of the Abbey Theatre and her participation in the Easter Rising.

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Main Creator: Nic Shiubhlaigh, Máire, 1883-1958
Contributors: Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972
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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Subjects:
Nic Shiubhlaigh, Máire, > 1883-1958
Abbey Theatre
English drama > Irish authors > 20th century
Theater > Ireland > 20th century.
Ireland > History > Easter Rising, 1916
Notes:Associated Materials: Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Ireland. There are additional Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh manuscripts held in the Department of Manuscripts; MS 27,618-27,635 and MS 22,562-22,575

Physical description: 1 box.

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Arrangement:Fonds
I. Scripts and essays; II. Correspondence; III. Programmes; IV. Memoirs and autobiographical writings; V. Miscellaneous papers and printings.
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II. Correspondence,

1926-1958.
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Bibliographic Details
In Collection: Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh Additional Papers (2002), 1907-1958.
Description:Correspondence of the actress and republican Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh. Includes letters sent to her from, amongst others, Padraic Colum, Lennox Robinson, Joseph Holloway, Alice Milligan, James Sullivan Starkey and William Fay. Letters largely relate to her work as an actress (notably her involvement with the Theatre of Ireland and Abbey Theatre), her radio broadcasting work in the 1930's and the writing and publication of her memoir 'The Spendid Years' (1955).
Main Creator: Nic Shiubhlaigh, Máire, 1883-1958
Extent:folders.
Format:Manuscript
Call Number: MS 49,752/16-28 (Manuscripts Reading Room)
Rights:Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.