Word: sean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movement to establish in Manhattan an Irish Cultural Center started in 1927 when a group of Irish and Irish-Americans organized what they patriotically called the Irish Theatre. They took over the Greenwich Village Theatre, gave a noteworthy performance of Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie. Last week, the group carried their plans a step further with the opening of a Museum of Irish Art. Occupying four of the six rooms leased by the Irish Theatre in the Barbizon Hotel, the Museum intends to "contribute the culture and arts of old and new Ireland to the American...
...Irish project is sure, in a city with the Irish ingredients of New York, of many and potent sympathizers. In the original Irish Theatre group there were twelve members, including a clerk from Bog of Allah named Sean Dillon, a Dublin sign painter, a Drogheda school teacher, a traveler named Rex Moore McVitty who came originally from Tandiragee, and two professional actresses, one from Athlone, one from Wicklow. Co-directors were Miceal Breathnach, a Galway engineer, and Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble...
...Ireland. The author then admitted that he had coined the name to rhyme with whiskey. Author and actor compromised on another spirit, the character became Seamus O'Tandy. Last time Actor Sinclair appeared in the U. S. (1927) he took part in two well-received plays by Sean O'Casey: Juno & The Paycock, The Plough & The Stars. Bad Girl is another novel which is plausible in its dramatized version. Season before last the book ranked as a best seller, later vying in popularity with The Specialist, the poesy of Edgar Guest and the Holy Bible. Because the story...
...Dublin, de Valera lieutenants did their best last week for their absent chieftain. Before packed galleries in the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) grimly facing the complacent government benches, Sean T. O'Kelly, acting leader of the Fianna Fail (Irish Republican party), put Mr. de Valera's name in nomination for President of the Irish Free State...
Following Mr. Gandhi came a rabble of marchers, many of them as reedy looking as the Mahatma, all stepping briskly to the stirring air which Mr. Constable Sean O'Rourke was now bellowing in a rich Dublin tenor, to the delight of correspondents...