Abbey Theatre
The
Abbey Theatre is the
Irish National
Theatre in
Dublin. It was founded by
William Butler Yeats and
Lady Gregory in
1899 under the name of
Irish Literary Theater, which was renamed in 1902 to
Irish National Theatre Society. In 1904, theatre director Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman helped finance the now-called
Abbey Theatre.
The theatre showed plays from John Millington Synge, George William Russell, Padraic Colum, and Sean O'Casey. In 1951, the theatre burned to the ground, and rebuild in 1966, with room for an audience of 628.