1900 A week-long engagement at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre by the Irish Literary Theatre does not cause much of a stir. The company stages The Bending of the Bough by George Moore, Maeve by Edward Martyn, and Alice Milligan's The Last Feast of the Fianna. Later the significance of these performances will be seen as the first steps of what will become Ireland's famed Abbey Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on February 19, 2015