Sources for Irish Women’s History

Collection: The Teresa Deevy Archive

Collection Description	Teresa Deevy was born in Waterford in 1894 and her first staged play, ‘The Reapers’ debuted in the Abbey Theatre in 1930. Throughout that decade a number of her plays were produced by the Abbey. Deevy fell out favour with the national theatre by 1939 and from then on her writing was most likely to be performed for radio – though her work was frequently performed by a range of dramatic groups, both amateur and professional. While Teresa Deevy passed away in 1963 interest in her work has continued and even grown. Since 2010 the off-Broadway Mint Theatre has been engaged in ‘The Teresa Deevy Project’, reviving her plays to critical acclaim and publishing collected editions of her work. In the Spring of 2010, Mint Artistic Director Jonathan Bank travelled to Ireland to meet with members of the Deevy family and to see Landscape, the Deevy family home where Teresa was born and spent her final years. Teresa’s papers, which had been stored in Landscape were deposited with the Library, Maynooth University in 2011, for their long-term preservation and so that they could be made available for research. [dri.ie]
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Collection Description

Teresa Deevy was born in Waterford in 1894 and her first staged play, ‘The Reapers’ debuted in the Abbey Theatre in 1930. Throughout that decade a number of her plays were produced by the Abbey. Deevy fell out favour with the national theatre by 1939 and from then on her writing was most likely to be performed for radio – though her work was frequently performed by a range of dramatic groups, both amateur and professional. While Teresa Deevy passed away in 1963 interest in her work has continued and even grown. Since 2010 the off-Broadway Mint Theatre has been engaged in ‘The Teresa Deevy Project’, reviving her plays to critical acclaim and publishing collected editions of her work. In the Spring of 2010, Mint Artistic Director Jonathan Bank travelled to Ireland to meet with members of the Deevy family and to see Landscape, the Deevy family home where Teresa was born and spent her final years. Teresa’s papers, which had been stored in Landscape were deposited with the Library, Maynooth University in 2011, for their long-term preservation and so that they could be made available for research. [dri.ie]

Collection Web Address

Repository: Maynooth University and St Patrick's College, Maynooth

Repository Name	Maynooth University and St Patrick's College, Maynooth
Address	Special Collections and Archives John Paul II Library South Campus Maynooth University Maynooth County Kildare
Eircode	W23 VP22
Address 2	The Russell Library St Patrick's College Maynooth County Kildare
Telephone	(01) 474-7423
Telephone 2	(01) 708-3890
Email Address	library.specialcollections@mu.ie
Email Address 2	library.russell@mu.ie
Web Address	https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/library/collections/
Comment	There are two separate institutions in Maynooth: the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. The Russell Library serves both institutions. Some of the information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists available in the archive. These lists were compiled by library staff and we are grateful for their assistance. Where partial or no lists were available, staff of the Women's History Project constructed an outline list.
latitude	53.38208
longitude	-6.59939

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ID	Repository	Reference	Date	Description	Collection
18472	Maynooth University and St Patrick's College, Maynooth	PP/6	1930-2000	The Teresa Deevy Archive has been digitised and made...	The Teresa Deevy Archive