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Great things were happening at the turn of the last century. AE1 and Horace Plunkett,2 with the Agricultural Organisation Society; Griffith,3 with the young giant, Sinn Fein (still in its cradle, but already with more than one slain serpent to its credit), the Fay brothers,4 with the beginnings of what should have been a national theatre. The air was, indeed, to use the worn-out phrase, electric. ‘It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.’
Condensed from The Rose and the Bottle (Dublin: Talbot Press, 1946) pp. 116—26. Editor’s title.
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See L. A. G. Strong, ‘Seumas O’Sullivan’, Irish Writing (Cork), no. 13 (Dec 1950) 54–8.
AE [George William Russell] (1867–1935), poet and painter, and friend of Yeats. He joined the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society under Sir Horace Plunkett in 1897 and became editor of its organ, The Irish Homestead (1905–23).
Ernest Boyd, The Contemporary Drama of Ireland (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1918) p. 58.
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O’Sullivan, S. (1988). How Our Theatre Began. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_3
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