Word: fredericka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abbey Theatre was opened in 1904 by Miss Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman, onetime private secretary to Poet-Senator William Butler Yeats, for the Irish National Theatre Society. The organization was founded in 1899 through the efforts of Yeats, Lady Gregory and others, to make the world aware of a rebirth of Irish letters. The roster of playwrights who have worked and still work for the Theatre is a literary honor roll: Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, AE (George William Russell), Sean O'Casey, George Shiels, Lennox Robinson. And many an Irish Player has left home to make good...