two mystery plays in dublin

TWO MYSTERY PLAYS IN DUBLlN’ in 1925 the sudden and deeply regretted Nativity Play to a close it was thought that an end, at least for the time being, had come to representations of Mysteries in Ireland. The strange fatality so often over-shadowing Irish efforts had, it seemed, struck again at the root, and all that had helped to produce the drama disintegrated. Kindled for a moment by Lady 0’ Connell the latent artistry of Irish children would be left to smoulder out without a chance of expression. The ‘ thing of beauty’ she had built up during four Christmas Seasons and that in its con- tinuance would have inspired other pioneers to work in the same field too quickly ceased to be. No sign appeared of another hand to carry on the torch and to help to establish a tradition. Like a comet, the Dalkey Nativity Play had flashed upon us for a moment and was gone, and only its memory as an artistic creation remained. Then suddenly in the early days of May this year it was announced in con- nection with the prospective centennial of Blessed Imelda Lambertini that on Whit Monday, May 23rd, two Mystery Dramas were to be produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. The Plays, Imelda and Tarsicius, were from the pen of the Rev. H. M. Gaffney, O.P. The first was to be presented by the girls of the Dominican College, Eccles Street, and the second by the boys of SS. Thomas and Tarsicius Altar Sodality, St. Saviour’s, Dominic Street. A choir of the choristers from Corpus Christi Church, WHEN death of its promoter brought the Dalkey The Plays, IMELDA and TARSICIUS, bound in one volume, with a Foreword by Father Vincent McNabb, O.P., are pub- lished by The Zrish Rosary, St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin. 485

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TWO MYSTERY PLAYS IN DUBLlN’ in 1925 the sudden and deeply regretted

Nativity Play to a close it was thought that an end, at least for the time being, had come to representations of Mysteries in Ireland. The strange fatality so often over-shadowing Irish efforts had, it seemed, struck again at the root, and all that had helped to produce the drama disintegrated. Kindled for a moment by Lady 0’ Connell the latent artistry of Irish children would be left to smoulder out without a chance of expression. The ‘ thing of beauty’ she had built up during four Christmas Seasons and that in its con- tinuance would have inspired other pioneers to work in the same field too quickly ceased to be. No sign appeared of another hand to carry on the torch and to help to establish a tradition. Like a comet, the Dalkey Nativity Play had flashed upon us for a moment and was gone, and only its memory as an artistic creation remained. Then suddenly in the early days of May this year it was announced in con- nection with the prospective centennial of Blessed Imelda Lambertini that on Whit Monday, May 23rd, two Mystery Dramas were to be produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. The Plays, Imelda and Tarsicius, were from the pen of the Rev. H. M. Gaffney, O.P. The first was to be presented by the girls of the Dominican College, Eccles Street, and the second by the boys of SS. Thomas and Tarsicius Altar Sodality, St . Saviour’s, Dominic Street. A choir of the choristers from Corpus Christi Church,

WHEN death of its promoter brought the Dalkey

The Plays, IMELDA and TARSICIUS, bound in one volume, with a Foreword by Father Vincent McNabb, O.P., are pub- lished by The Zrish Rosary, St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin.

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