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Frank Fay and the Irish Theatre 1901-03 ...

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Frank Fay and the Irish Theatre 1901-03 Fay (Frank, Prionsias Ó Fathaigh, 1870-1933). An important file of original unpublished letters to the Gaelic League activist Donal O’Connor, evidently a close friend. There are seventeen TLS, 1901-03, all but four dated, mainly discussing Fay’s current activities and plans in the Irish theatre, at a time when he (with his brother W.G. Fay and their collaborators) was laying the foundations for what became the Irish National Theatre Society and the Abbey Theatre. O’Connor’s replies are not present. Fay and O’Connor probably met through the Gaelic League, in which both were active around the turn of the century. The Fay brothers had been active in the Dublin theatre since 1891. Frank had a fine speaking voice, well suited to literary readings; Willie was a specialist in production techniques. The following extracts give a flavour of the correspondence. 20.9.01: ‘The Cumann na nGaedheal Concert Party has been visiting quite a number of towns in the west; and you will see from the U[nited] I[rishman] this week that the only place in which they received anything like a rebuff was in an Irish-speaking district. Do you know that down in the bottom of my heart I am beginning to have fears for the Revival .. You may have read in the last issue of Weekly Independent a little play in verse “The Children of Lir”. The author is a lad not twenty and I think he will do fine work yet. He is full of enthusiasm .. I hear the Leader’s influence is on the wane. I am glad and sorry because the U.I. will not reach the number of people who read the Leader. But the latter is becoming insupportable ..’ 24.2.02: ‘A few weeks ago I gave a night of readings from Irish Poets and Prose Writers at the Celtic [Literary Society] and I am glad to say that I was able to hold the attention of a very small audience for at least an hour; so all my years of work have not been in vain .. You may have noticed that we backed by Inghinidhe [na hÉireann] are going in for a big thing at Easter in the shape of [A.E.’s] Deirdre and a little play by Yeats, “Kathleen ni Houlihan” .. Isn’t the U.I. great .. Griffith seems to have a wonderful faculty of attracting all the literary folk to him .. I believe it has penetrated into Trinity College and I believe that all that is educated and advanced in Dublin reads it .. You should read Prof. Mahaffy’s evidence re the Catholic University. He gives the Bishops some nasty knocks which they badly need. They have too much power as it is and are strangling Ireland; heaven help us if we get a C.U.’ 9.4.02: ‘We have scored a real success with “Deirdre” and “Kathleen ni Houlihan”. Each of the three nights we had to turn money away. We had all the elite of literary Dublin, George Moore Edward Martyn, Standish O’Grady, Rolleston, T.P. Gill, John Eglinton, T.D. Sullivan and in our audience were West Britons and anti-Irish Irishmen and Englishmen .. Yeats’ play was an assured success at the start; but the wonder of wonders was the success of Deirdre. It astonished us all. It is written in a prose which as AE pointed out to me, he could easily change to verse, it is so rhythmical. Moore and Yeats had each shaken their heads at the play, but they had to give in, in the end. On the first night Yeats, from nervousness, could not stay in the hall during Deirdre (he and AE have been life-long friends and he was genuinely anxious about the reception of the piece); but on the second night he sat it out, and at the close came behind in a state of wild enthusiasm and took back all that he had said against the play. Yeats seemed to be struck by the acting which, in its method, approached a theory of his own. Our object was to bring out the rhythm of each sentence to make the alliteration and assonance, in which AE’s poetry and prose abounds, give some of its effect to the audience and this, added to the fact that we played behind a thin gauze, and had no footlights, made for a remoteness of effect .. the gauze g

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 664
Auktion:
Datum:
07.12.2022
Auktionshaus:
Fonsie Mealys Auctioneers
The Old Cinema, Chatsworth Street.
R95 XV05 Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
Irland
info@fonsiemealy.ie
+353 (0)56 4441229
+353 (0)56 4441627
Beschreibung:

Frank Fay and the Irish Theatre 1901-03 Fay (Frank, Prionsias Ó Fathaigh, 1870-1933). An important file of original unpublished letters to the Gaelic League activist Donal O’Connor, evidently a close friend. There are seventeen TLS, 1901-03, all but four dated, mainly discussing Fay’s current activities and plans in the Irish theatre, at a time when he (with his brother W.G. Fay and their collaborators) was laying the foundations for what became the Irish National Theatre Society and the Abbey Theatre. O’Connor’s replies are not present. Fay and O’Connor probably met through the Gaelic League, in which both were active around the turn of the century. The Fay brothers had been active in the Dublin theatre since 1891. Frank had a fine speaking voice, well suited to literary readings; Willie was a specialist in production techniques. The following extracts give a flavour of the correspondence. 20.9.01: ‘The Cumann na nGaedheal Concert Party has been visiting quite a number of towns in the west; and you will see from the U[nited] I[rishman] this week that the only place in which they received anything like a rebuff was in an Irish-speaking district. Do you know that down in the bottom of my heart I am beginning to have fears for the Revival .. You may have read in the last issue of Weekly Independent a little play in verse “The Children of Lir”. The author is a lad not twenty and I think he will do fine work yet. He is full of enthusiasm .. I hear the Leader’s influence is on the wane. I am glad and sorry because the U.I. will not reach the number of people who read the Leader. But the latter is becoming insupportable ..’ 24.2.02: ‘A few weeks ago I gave a night of readings from Irish Poets and Prose Writers at the Celtic [Literary Society] and I am glad to say that I was able to hold the attention of a very small audience for at least an hour; so all my years of work have not been in vain .. You may have noticed that we backed by Inghinidhe [na hÉireann] are going in for a big thing at Easter in the shape of [A.E.’s] Deirdre and a little play by Yeats, “Kathleen ni Houlihan” .. Isn’t the U.I. great .. Griffith seems to have a wonderful faculty of attracting all the literary folk to him .. I believe it has penetrated into Trinity College and I believe that all that is educated and advanced in Dublin reads it .. You should read Prof. Mahaffy’s evidence re the Catholic University. He gives the Bishops some nasty knocks which they badly need. They have too much power as it is and are strangling Ireland; heaven help us if we get a C.U.’ 9.4.02: ‘We have scored a real success with “Deirdre” and “Kathleen ni Houlihan”. Each of the three nights we had to turn money away. We had all the elite of literary Dublin, George Moore Edward Martyn, Standish O’Grady, Rolleston, T.P. Gill, John Eglinton, T.D. Sullivan and in our audience were West Britons and anti-Irish Irishmen and Englishmen .. Yeats’ play was an assured success at the start; but the wonder of wonders was the success of Deirdre. It astonished us all. It is written in a prose which as AE pointed out to me, he could easily change to verse, it is so rhythmical. Moore and Yeats had each shaken their heads at the play, but they had to give in, in the end. On the first night Yeats, from nervousness, could not stay in the hall during Deirdre (he and AE have been life-long friends and he was genuinely anxious about the reception of the piece); but on the second night he sat it out, and at the close came behind in a state of wild enthusiasm and took back all that he had said against the play. Yeats seemed to be struck by the acting which, in its method, approached a theory of his own. Our object was to bring out the rhythm of each sentence to make the alliteration and assonance, in which AE’s poetry and prose abounds, give some of its effect to the audience and this, added to the fact that we played behind a thin gauze, and had no footlights, made for a remoteness of effect .. the gauze g

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 664
Auktion:
Datum:
07.12.2022
Auktionshaus:
Fonsie Mealys Auctioneers
The Old Cinema, Chatsworth Street.
R95 XV05 Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
Irland
info@fonsiemealy.ie
+353 (0)56 4441229
+353 (0)56 4441627
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