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.v.1. Letters from Padraic Colum to Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh, concerning her memoir 'The Splendid Years',

1950-1958.
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Bibliographic Details
In Collection: Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh Additional Papers (2002), 1907-1958.
Description:Letters from the poet and dramatist Padraic Colum to actress Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh, concerning his writing the foreword to her memoir 'The Splendid Years', its being reviewed in 'The Irish Times' and his efforts to buy a copy in the Irish bookshop in New York. He also refers to his financial situation, his continuing to work, having never, despite his expectations, ''received a good deal on a play'' (12 May 1950)and, in passing, to his health and the death of mutual friends, among them James Stephen (in a letter dated 4 Jan. 1951). Included is an undated postcard from Colum.
Main Creator: Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972
Extent:8 pp.
Format:Manuscript
Call Number: MS 49,752/21 (Manuscripts Reading Room)
Rights:Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.