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The three theatrical sketches here reproduced have only recently come to light. They formed part of a sketch-book in the possession of Elizabeth Curran, who was secretary to the committee for a special Jack B. Yeats National Loan Exhibition at the National College of Art in Dublin in June 1945. In May 1982 the various sketches from the book appeared as part of a general exhibition of Irish art in the Tulfarris Gallery, county Wicklow, where I happened to see them. I thought the theatrical ones quite significant, since they provide evidence of the interior of the Camden Street Theatre.1
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See Lady Gregory, Our Irish Theatre (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1972) Appendix VI, p. 249.
For other details of the Killeenan Feis see also Lady Gregory, Poets and Dreamers (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1974) pp. 248–50.
The date is wrongly given as 1900 on p. 248, n. 1. See also Hilary Pyle, Jack B. Yeats: A Biography (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970) pp. 81–2.
The evolution of the Fays’ early theatrical enterprises into the company which put the Irish National Theatre Society on stage in 1902 is well documented by Brenna Katz Clarke, The Emergence of the Irish Peasant Play at the Abbey Theatre (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1982) pp. 6–31, and Appendix C.
Padraic Colum, “Early Days of the Irish Theatre,” Dublin Magazine, xxiv, No. 4 (October-December 1949) 17.
See Lennox Robinson, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre: A History 1899–1951 (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1951) p. 27.
W. G. Fay and Catherine Carswell, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre (London: Rich and Cowan, 1935) p. 124.
R. M., “The ‘Irish Theatre’: The Camden Street Playhouse”, The Evening Mail, 5 December 1902, p. 2. See also Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh, The Splendid Years (Dublin: James Duffy, 1955) p. 194.
A. Norman Jeffares and A. S. Knowland, A Commentary on the Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1975) p. 124.
Quoted by Robert Hogan and James Kilroy, Laying the Foundations 1902–1904, The Modern Irish Drama: A Documentary History, ii (Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1976) p. 41.
Ann Saddlemyer, ed., Theatre Business: the Correspondence of the First Abbey Directors: William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1982) p. 43.
Joseph Holloway’s Abbey Theatre, ed. Robert Hogan and Michael J. O’Neill (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967) pp. 23–4.
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Murray, C. (1985). Three Sketches by Jack B. Yeats of the Camden Street Theatre, 1902. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 3. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06206-5_7
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