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Lennox Robinson
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'''Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson''' (
October 4,
1886 -
October 15,
1958) was an
Ireland Irish dramatist,
poet and
theatre producer and director who was involved with the
Abbey Theatre.
Robinson was born and raised in
County Cork in a
Protestant and
Unionist family. His father was a middle-class
stockbroker who in
1892 decided to become a
clergyman in the
Church of Ireland. A sickly child, Robinson was educated by private tutor and at
Bandon Grammar School. In
August 1907 his interest in the theatre began after he went to see an Abbey production of plays by
W. B. Yeats and
Lady Gregory at the
Cork Opera House. He published his first poem that same year.
His first play, ''The Cross Roads'' was performed in the Abbey in
1909 and he became Manager of the theatre towards the end of that year. He resigned in
1914 as a result of a disastrous tour of the
United States but returned in
1919. He was appointed to the board of the theatre in
1923 and continued to serve in that capacity until his death.
As a playwright, Robinson showed himself as a nationalist with plays like ''Patriots'' (1912) and ''Dreamers'' (1915). On the other hand, he belonged to a part of Irish society which was not seen as fully Irish. This division between the "pure"
Catholic Irish on one side and the
Anglo-Irish on the other can be seen in a play such as ''The Big House'' (1926), which depicts a burning of such a Protestant manor by Irregulars, or extreme Republicans.
Robinson's most popular play was ''The Whiteheaded Boy'' (
1916). His fiction includes ''Eight Short Stories'' (
1919). In
1951 he published ''Ireland's Abbey Theatre'', the first full-length history of the company.
References
'''Print'''
*Igoe, Vivien. A Literary Guide to Dublin. ISBN 0-4136912-0-9
*Murray, Christopher: 'Lennox Robinson, ''The Big House, Killycreggs in Twilight'' and "Vestigia og Generations"'
*''Selected Plays - Lennox Robinson. Chosen and Introduced by Christopher Murray'' (Colin Smythe, 1921)
'''Online'''
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Lennox Robinson at the Princess Grace Irish Library
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Category:1958 deaths Robinson, Lennox
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Category:Irish dramatists and playwrights Robinson, Lennox
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Category:Irish Anglicans Robinson, Lennox
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