Performance on Commemoration of Easter 1916
(On the occasion of the coming into force of the Republic of Ireland Act, 1948)
Easter Monday, 18th April, 1949
Saturday, 16th April, 1949, at 7.45 p.m.
DERVORGILLA
A Tragedy in One Act by LADY GREGORY
THE RISING OF THE MOON
A Play in One Act by LADY GREGORY
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LOST LIGHT
A Verse by ROIBEARD O’ FARACHAIN
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ORCHESTRA
The Orchestra will perform the following sections
Overture Prelude Rachmaninov (1873-1942)
Irish Airs Una Bhán arr. Hardebeck (1869-1945) She Moved through the Fair Must I go Bound? The Blackbird arr. Herbert Hughes (1862-1937)
Fantasie Samson and Delilah Saint-Saëns (1835-1922)
Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 48/1949