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In 1902 I was a member of a club that met in a hall at the back of Walker’s newsagent’s shop at No. 18 High Street. There I made the acquaintance of the Walkers, and through them I met W. G. Fay, whose Comedy Combination Company was about this time giving their final performance of His Lost Legs [sic ]l at the old Coffee Palace Hall, in Townsend Street. One night in the Walkers’ house, conversation turned on the new dramatic movement and the need for an Irish theatre. As I knew nothing about it I was merely a listener.
Lennox Robinson, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre: A History 1899–1951 (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1951) pp. 69–76. Editor’s title.
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Iden Payne did not produce The Shadowy Waters , which had been performed on 8 Dec 1906, before Payne arrived.
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Barlow, S. (1988). Recollections of 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_20
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