Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh was an Irish actress and Republican activist. A founding member of the Abbey Theatre, she participated in the Easter Rising, 1916 and wrote a memoir called "The Splendid Years".
Immediate Source Acquisition ↴
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Content & Structure
Scope & Content: Nic Shiubhlaigh, Máire, 1883-1958 ↴
The Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh Additional Papers (2002) includes letters and cards sent to Nic Shiubhlaigh from friends and associates including Padraic Colum, Alice Milligan, Lennox Robinson, Joseph Holloway and Seumas O’Sullivan. Also included are typescripts of plays by, amongst others, Lady Gregory, Seumas O’Kelly and Alice Milligan, theatre programmes, documentation relating to her radio broadcasting work and drafts of lectures and autobiographical writings that relate to her involvement with the theatre movement in Ireland, the early years of the Abbey Theatre and her participation in the Easter Rising.
Appraisal Destruction ↴
Permanent Retention
Arrangement ↴
The collection is arranged as follows: I. Scripts and essays II. Correspondence III. Programmes IV. Memoirs and autobiographical writings V. Miscellaneous papers and printings.
Conditions of Access & Use
Access Conditions
Access with a valid National Library of Ireland Readers Ticket.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.
There are additional Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh manuscripts held in the Department of Manuscripts of the National Library of Ireland, see MS 27,618-27,635 and MS 22,562-22,575.
Descriptive Control Area
Archivist Note
Fiona Hughes
Rules/Conventions
NLI guidelines based on ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000, and Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
