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Entering from Marlborough Street, and viewing the tastefully decorated and furnished vestibule of the Abbey Theatre, one finds it hard to realise that here, less than thirty years ago, stood the City Morgue, as drab and as gruesome a chamber as could be found in any capital in Europe.
Seamus de Burca, The Soldier’s Song: The Story of Peadar Kearney (Dublin: P.J. Bourke, 1958) pp. 34—9. These recollections were written in 1935.Seamus de Burca, The Soldier’s Song: The Story of Peadar Kearney (Dublin: P.J. Bourke, 1958) pp. 34—9. These recollections were written in 1935.
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W. B. Yeats, ‘The Irish National Theatre and Three Sorts of Ingorance’, ibid., 24 Oct 1903, p. 2.
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Kearney, P. (1988). The Abbey Theatre. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_18
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