[{"node":{"title":"Boyd114","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd114","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Lyric Theatre, O'Casey, O'Malley","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd114","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd114_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 3 -\n\nYes, few theatres are so lucky. The Lyric must be one\nof the luckiest theatres in Europe. I wonder why I\nthought of 'luck' just now. Well, the Lyric has\nsurvived seven years on its present site and I think\nits survival is something of a miracle. It has been\nbombed (but luckily the blast went the wrong way) ; it\nhas been picketed by Paisleyites (luckily their protest\nwas of no avail); and it has often been threatened ...\n\nBut no more of this! The Lyric not only endures,\nit flourishes - the only professional theatre in the\nnorth. Tonight I am going to the opening of\nCock-a-doodle Dandy. Tomas MacAnna of the Abbey directing.\nThis O\u2019Casey play has never been performed in Ireland.\nImagine, an O\u2019Casey play written in 1947 and not\nproduced in his native countryhuntil now! We do\nhonour our dramatists, don\u2019t we?\n\nI wish that Pat and I had had enougn time that\nafternoon to tell you about the history of the Lyric.\nIt is a romantic story, and some day it will be told in\nfull. It was founded by Mary O\u2019Malley who comes from\nCork and her husband, Pearse O\u2019Malley, who comes from\nArmagh, and it has a line from Yeats\n\ninscribed on the granite lintel; A fitting inscription;\n","Type":"Text"}}]