{"id":340,"date":"2020-01-07T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/?page_id=340"},"modified":"2020-04-21T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:05:06","slug":"in-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/home\/gaelic-revival\/theatre\/in-the-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"> Yeats, W.B. Plays and controversies. London: Macmillan and Co., 1923.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeats compiled this volume from reprinted works from his journal\u00a0<em>Samhain<\/em>\u00a0in hopes that the new government, the D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann, would establish an Irish State Theatre. Author\u2019s presentation copy to Lennox Robinson: \u201cLennox Robinson from his friend W.B. Yeats \/ Feb. 27, 1924\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Mac Liamm\u00f3ir, Miche\u00e1l<\/strong>.\u00a0<em>Theatre in Ireland<\/em>. Dublin: Published for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland by Colm O Lochlainn, 1950.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miche\u00e1l Mac Liamm\u00f3ir (1899-1978) was born Alfred Willmore, but changed his name upon joining the Gaelic League. He and his partner Hilton Edwards founded Dublin\u2019s Gate Theatre in 1928. Printer Colm O Lochlainn (1892-1972) founded the Candle Press in 1916 and At the Sign of the Three Candles Press in 1926. He had been captain of the intelligence section and an executive member of the Irish Volunteers during the Rising. After Ireland\u2019s infamous neutrality during World War II, the Department of External Affairs during the 13the D\u00e1il government wanted to promote tourism in Ireland with \u201ccultural propaganda\u201d and so established the Cultural Relations Committee to produce works on art, film, theatre, national libraries, student programs and exchanges, and exhibitions.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>National<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Tourist<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Publicity<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Organisation<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>of<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Ireland<\/strong>.\u00a0<em>An<\/em>\u00a0<em>T\u00f3stal<\/em>:\u00a0<em>Ireland<\/em>\u00a0<em>at<\/em>\u00a0<em>home<\/em>. Dublin: Published by the National Tourist Publicity Organisation of Ireland, 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commemorative book written to accompany the first An T\u00f3stal tourist festival, events of which were held throughout Ireland between April 5 and 26, 1953. It was the first major attempt by the government to tap the potential of the Irish diaspora. This publication includes essays by Sean O\u2019Faolain on the Irish theatre and Seamus Kelly on art in Ireland.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Yeats, W.B. Plays and controversies. London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. Yeats compiled this volume from reprinted works from his journal\u00a0Samhain\u00a0in hopes that the new government, the D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann, would establish an Irish State Theatre. Author\u2019s presentation copy to Lennox Robinson: \u201cLennox Robinson from his friend W.B. Yeats \/ Feb. 27, 1924\u201d [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Mac Liamm\u00f3ir, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":322,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-340","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/easter1916\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}