[Irish-language drama in London, 1906.] Printed programme for ‘Trí drámanna’ at the South Hampstead Club: ‘An Deoraide’ by Lorcán Ua Tuathail [Laurence O’Toole], with ‘The Saxon Shilling’ by Padraic Colm and ‘The Twisting of the Rope’ by Douglas Hyde
From the Sylvia and Robert Lynd papers, and presumably connected to her mother the nationalist Nannie Dryhurst (1856-1930), who like the Lynds lived in Hampstead. Scarce: no other copy traced. 4 pp, 12mo. Bifolium on thickish light-green paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, and with central horizontal fold. Cover headed by three lines in Gaelic. Reverse of cover carries a cast list. Recto of second leaf has a long synopsis, concluding: ‘The play ends with a powerful exhortation against emigration’. (The play, whose title translates as ‘The Exile’ (later subtitled ‘A Play against Emigration’), is discussed in Philip O’Leary, ‘Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921’ (1994).) On reverse of second leaf are details of the two other plays, both in English: ‘The Saxon Shilling’ by Padraic Colm, and ‘The Twisting of the Rope’, ‘Translated from the Gaelic’ of Douglas Hyde.