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- 1884-1969 (Creation)
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44 items
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Programmes, newspaper notices, invitations, tickets, and reviews relating to theatricals, including comedies, tragedies, operettas, librettos and pantomimes, staged by pupils of the Sacred Heart College. Includes a bound copy of a programme for the Crescent College pantomime of 1901, presented by 'Miss Claire Hanrahan in 1955' to the Crescent College. Also includes some correspondence, including a letter from Fr William Lockington SJ (16 February 1907; 1 page) a [draft] letter in Irish advising participation in a festival of Gaelic drama (nd.; 1 page), for which there is also a newspaper review from 10 March 1945. Reviews of the three pages staged in the years 1858, 1963 and 1964 are to be found respectively in three copies of 'Our Catholic Life', a quarterly magazine of the Diocese of Limerick. Some correspondence re. plays and performances is also included.