Reference code
IE CA CP/3/16/39/34
Title
Protest against the visit of Orson Welles to Dublin
Date(s)
- 19 Dec. 1951 (Creation)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
1 p.; clipping
Name of creator
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
A clipping of an article reporting on a protest during a performance of Maura Laverty’s play ‘Tolka Row’ at the Gate Theatre in Dublin which Orson Wells attended. The protestors carried placards reading ‘Dublin rejects Communist Front Star’. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (19 December 1951).