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- c.1930 (Creation)
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16 pp; typescript
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A copy of the script for a comedic play titled ‘Duty’ by Seumus O’Brien. The play received its first performance in the Abbey Theatre on 16 December 1913. The play is set in the back kitchen of Mrs Cotter’s public house in a rural country village.
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For more information on the play see https://irishplayography.com/play/duty See also https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11969
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Seumas O’Brien (1880-1959) was a Cork-born sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, and painter. He taught art in Cork and Dublin for several years and exhibited his work at the Royal Hibernian Academy before emigrating to San Francisco in 1913. He wrote several plays (mostly with storylines connected to events in the Irish Revolution) which were staged in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. O’Brien was also acquainted with several leading figures in the Irish literary revival including William Butler Yeats and Padraic Colum.