b. Dundalk; worked as a custom officer on the Border; first entered a theatre in 1947; appt. Abbey Artistic Director by Ernest Blythe; dir. plays by Yeats, Synge, Behan (Borstal Boy, Abbey 1967); MacNeice (One for the Grave), Patrick Kavanagh (Tarry Flynn) and Brian Friel (The Loves of Cass Maguire); issued memoir as Fallaing Aonghusa: Saol Amharclainne (2001).
Notes
Pól Muirí, review of Fallaing Aonghusa: Saol Amharclainne
(An Clóchomhar 2001), 294pp., in The Irish Times [Weekend]
(6 Oct. 2001), invited to interview by Ernest Blythe; unlike others Mac
Anna is not hypercritical of Blythe and criticises the Abbey’s inadequate
Irish-language policy.
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The Princess Grace Irish Library of Monaco: EIRData 2000