It’s something you feel.
An Asbestos Cement ad in the programme for Lous MacNeice’s ‘One Foot in The Grave’ at the then newly-built Abbey Theatre, Dublin, October 1966.
Good times.
Via Brand New Retro
Asbestos work to close Abbey stage (Irish Times, May 10, 2012)
I absolutely agree with Gabriel Byrne’s criticism about the Irish Government policy on Culture.#GB12
— Fiach Mac Conghail (@fmacconghail) November 7, 2012
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile, it seems like only yesterday:
The Lads-ering, Dublin Castle, October 2011.
Pic via
Taken literally earlier.
Playwright Tom Murphy and Abbey Theatre Artistic Director Fiach Mac Conghail on the first day of rehearsals for a new production of Murphy’s ‘returned-emigrant’ play ‘The House’, which opens on June 7. The Abbey has produced 23 of Murphy’s plays dating back to ‘The Famine’ for the Peacock Theatre in 1968.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Destroyed by fire in 1951.
Digitally Restored in 2012.
By Noho.ie, the people who brought you ancient Rome.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OQ9EoJvf9Y&feature=youtu.be
Trailer for Alice in Funderland. from ThisIsPopBaby.
A tale as old as time.
Apparently the “first” musical at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, for 20 years.
The last musical was famine-based flop ‘Ocras!’ which closed after two nights.
Via @DarraghDoyle
