Flier for ‘Easter 1916’ Play by Montagu Slater
- IE CA CP/3/16/10/13
- Deel
- 1936
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A flier for a performance of ‘Easter 1916’, a play by Montagu Slater, an English poet and playwright. The play covers the period from the 1913 lock-out to the 1916 Rising by chronicling the life of James Connolly, described as ‘Ireland’s first Socialist martyr’. A performance of Slater’s play was produced by the Left Theatre Company at the La Scala Theatre in Dublin in April 1936.