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I had also discovered the Abbey Theatre. Vi1 and I frequently talked broad Dublin, and he one day told me that I should go to the Abbey, where I would hear it spoken to perfection.2 The first programme I saw there consisted of The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World . Synge was dead, but once, when I was very small, I had caught a glimpse of him outside the house where he stayed with his relatives in Glenageary. He wore a broad-brimmed hat, which for some reason caught my attention, and I stared at it until I became aware that the dark, saturnine face beneath it, with its heavy brows and dark moustache, had softened into a smile of amusement.
Green Memory (London: Methuen, 1961) pp. 144–6. Editor’s title.
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L. A. G. Strong (1896–1958), man of letters. His other writings include Dublin Days (Oxford: Blackwell, 1921)
Personal Remarks (London: Peter Nevill, 1953).
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Strong, L.A.G. (1988). Memory 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_29
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