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Index Abbey Plays, 1899–1948 (book by Brinsley Macnamara), 273n Abbey Row, The (book by W. B. Yeats), 89 Abbey Street, dublin, 38, 39, 44, 45, 68, 85, 147, 179, 2A51, 252 Abbey Theatre, actors rebel, 186– 87; company arrested in U. S., 152; first rehearsal in, 44–45; gets government subsidy, 243–44; list of authors, 283n; Miss Horniman on, 271; Miss Horniman’s subsidy of, 147; mistaken for morgue, 47; open on edward VII’s death, 136; opening of, 50–51; Pearse’s opinion of, 151; 21st anniversary , 248–49 Adding Machine, The (play by elmer L. Rice), 220 Ae. See Russell, George William Admirable Crichton, The (play by J. M. Barrie), 100 Aegesthus (character in Hugo von Hofmannstahl’s Electra), 119 Aeolian Hall, London, 267 Aleel (character in W. B. Yeats’ The Countess Cathleen), 7 All for Hecuba (book by Micheál Mac Liammóir), 285n Allan Wilkie’s Company (of actors ), 281n Allen, Ira (actor), 205 Allgood, Sara, 27–28, 35, 36, 37, 38, 46, 51, 55, 60, 62, 67, 73, 74, 76, 80, 82, 96, 102, 109, 112, 114, 119, 120, 121, 123, 126, 129, 136–37, 143, 148, 149, 158, 191, 199, 220, 224– 25, 226, 235, 237, 238, 242, 246, 248, 269, 276n Allgood, Mary. See O’neill, Maire American Ecclesiastical Review (journal), 154 Anderson, Mr. (actor), 67 “Anchors Weighed, The” (poem), 245 Androcles and the Lion (play by George Bernard Shaw), 247 Angel, The (character in W. B. Yeats’ The Hour Glass), 21, 22, 246 Anglesea Street, dublin, 178 Anglo-Irish Treaty, 287n Ann Kavanagh (play by dorothy Macardle), 235, 254 Annesley, Miss, 37 Annie Hanlon (character in A. Patrick Wilson’s The Slough), 167 “Annie Laurie” (song), 43 Antient Concert Rooms, dublin, 6, 18, 19, 39, 42, 53, 142, 274n Aoibhell (character in Lady Gregory’s Kincora), 55, 58 Apologia pro vita sua (book by Cardinal newman), 241 Aran, 44, 53, 117, 244 Archer, William (author in Fortnightly Review), 34 Architectural Association of Ireland , 64 Aristotle’s Bellows (play by Lady Gregory), 209 Arms and the Man (play by George Bernard Shaw), 258– 59, 279n Armstrong, —, 181 Arrah na Pogue (play by dion Boucicault), 205, 281n Arts Club, dublin, 103 At the Hawk’s Well (play by W. B. Yeats), 229 Athenry (town in Galway), 52 Aunt ellen (character in Lennox Robinson’s The Whiteheaded Boy), 190 Authors’ Society, 241 Autumn Fire (play by T. C. Murray ), 237–38, 267–68 Avenue Theatre, 105 290 Index Bachelor’s Walk, dublin, 162 Ball, Robert, Sir (doctor), 128 Ballad Singer (character in Lady Gregory’s Rising of the Moon), 235 Ballsbridge, dublin, 177 Balzac, Honoré (author), 118, 173 Bandon, County Cork, 212 Barlow, Seaghan/Sean (Abbey stage carpenter and actor), 140, 204, 255 Barrie, J. M. (playwright), 100, 101 Barry, Kevin, 252 Barry, Spranger (actor), 114 Bartley (character in J. M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea), 80 Bathilda (character in Hermann Sudermann’s Teja), 106 Beamish MacCoul (character in dion Boucicault’s Arrah na Pogue), 205 Beasley, Pearse (playwright), 242 Beau Brummell (character in edward Martyn’s The Dream Physician), 168, 284n “Because I Love Thee” (song), 43 Bedmates (play by George Shiels), 232 Beggar’s Bush, dublin, 209 Belfast, 231 “Believe Me” (song), 43 Bells, The (play by erckmannChatrian ), 116, 237, 280n Beltaine (journal), 7 Bending of the Bough, The (play by George Moore), 11–12, 61, 273n, 274n Benson Company (company of actors), 13, 14 Benson, F. R. (Sir Frank) (actor), 76 Benson, Mrs. (actor), 14–15, 91 Bernhardt, Madame (actor), 59, 79 Best, Richard (Celtic scholar and librarian at the national Library of Ireland), 105 Birthright (play by T. C. Murray) 144, 152, 190, 220 Black and Tans (military unit), 209, 212, 213 Black Miki (character in Conal O’Riordan’s The Piper), 104 Black Prophet, The (book by William Carleton), 155 Blanco Posnet (character in George Bernard Shaw’s The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet ), 130 Blight (play by Alpha and Omega (Oliver St. John Gogarty and Joseph O’Connor)), 194–95, 218 Blunt, Wilfred Scawen (playwright ), 277n Bluntschli (character in George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man), 258 Blythe, ernest (Managing director of the Abbey Theatre), 244, 249, 252 Blythe, ernest, Mrs. 244, 249, 252 Bodenstown, 265, 288n Bogie Man, The (play by Lady Gregory), 282n Boston Transcript, The (newspaper ), 158 Boucicault, dion (playwright), 34, 137, 138, 281n, 287n Bourgeois, M. 158 Boyd, Richard (actor), 123, 198 Boyd, ernest A. (playwright), 204 Boyle, William (playwright), conversation...

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