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Article: PLAY ON YEATS HAS `SPIRIT,' BUT LACKS SHAPE.(L.A. LIFE) (theater review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- April 12, 1996
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Byline: Daryl H. Miller Daily News Theater Critic
In the new drama ``The Poet of Woburn Place,'' turn-of-the-century Irish poet William Butler Yeats is depicted as a man who longs for a placid, conventional life, complete with a wife and children. Trouble is, he can't convince the great love of his life - Maud Gonne MacBride, a fiery and beautiful Irish nationalist leader - to share his dream.
History records that Gonne MacBride inspired some of Yeats' most impassioned work. As presented here, she's an often-exasperating muse, turning cold and standoffish when Yeats talks of marriage - hoping he'll be content to think of his poems and plays as the ...
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Article: IRISH NORTHERN AID PANEL MARKS UPRISING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);
October 24, 1996 ;
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... ... given: James Connolly Award will be received by Michael T. Keenan; James C. Heaney Award to Edward G. Brady; Maude Gonne MacBride Award to Maureen E. Dumas; Thomas J. McGuire Award to John P. Bryce; Liam Ryan Award to Seamus and Lily Gildernew ...
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