An Taibhdhearc - National Irish Language Theatre
Irish-language playhouse founded in 1928, built on the ruins of a medieval Augustinian friary.
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About this audio guide
This guide to An Taibhdhearc, the Irish-language theatre on Middle Street in Galway, is about the people who did the work behind the curtain. It starts in August nineteen twenty-eight with a small government grant and Micheál Mac Liammóir, the actor and designer hired to make an all-Irish stage work, alongside his partner Hilton Edwards. It also takes in the voluntary board and borrowed singers who kept it running, and the old stones the building stands on. Best heard on Middle Street, looking up at the name over the door.
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