Georgian & Victorian · event 11 of 13

1904

The Abbey Theatre opens. Yeats and Lady Gregory found a national theatre to show Ireland to itself in its own voice. Its audiences riot over Synge in 1907 and O’Casey in 1926, and both plays are now canonical.

The Georgian & Victorian era

  1. 1707
  2. 1745
  3. 1759
  4. 1782
  5. 1791
  6. 1798
  7. 1 January 1801
  8. 1803
  9. 1845
  10. 1854
  11. 1904
  12. 16 June 1904
  13. 1913

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