Irish women will not put up with being written out of history any longer | Emer O'Toole
The news that nine out of 10 plays on the Abbey theatre's centenary programme are by men has revived feminist energy. We won't be silenced againIn Ireland, we take theatre seriously. This is because the story of our national theatre is the story of our nation. In 1897, Augusta Gregory, William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn planned a theatre that would counter stereotypes of Irish "buffoonery" and "easy sentiment". T…