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John Bull's Other Island (by Bernard Shaw; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) gave Broadway its first view of Dublin's Gate Theatre. Founded 20 years ago by Actors Hilton Edwards and Micheal MacLiammóir, who are still its heads and headliners, the Gate has grown more popular in Dublin as the once-great Abbey Theatre has grown less so. Though in Manhattan it will offer only Irish plays, in Dublin (unlike the Abbey) it features foreign ones; it has produced the works of O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Kaufman & Hart...
...time Dublin's Robert Emmet was twelve years old, in 1790, he had already decided "that it would be a glorious thing to give his life for his country...
...scaffold, in a world of chivalrous, humanitarian dreams-a lovable but fatal hallucination which Author Landreth indignantly blames on Emmet's father, a conventional Protestant doctor of English extraction who didn't let little Robert air his views when grownups were conversing. After several years at Dublin's Trinity College, from which he was expelled for his subversive opinions, young Emmet entered a world for which he was no better equipped than Don Quixote...
...workmen turned out an arsenal of pikes, bottle-bombs, grenades and scaling ladders, informers peeped in at the windows of the "secret" depots, or eavesdropped on the excited workmen when they retired to the pubs. Soon the authorities knew that Emmet's hopes were not confined to Dublin alone, that he had been promised support from all parts of Ireland-undependable promises which his "sanguine disposition" easily built into towers of strength...
General Richard Mulcahy's once fiery Fine Gael, the last vestige of the Cosgrave government that preceded Dev, had the best electioneering machine (including a company of blue-kilted girl pipers that took Dublin by storm). But-as one of their critics said-"the undertaker's union is working against Fine Gael." Three of their aged front-bench deputies had died during the campaign. And nobody expected much of the Laborites, the fourth party...