Lennox Robinson
Playwright, Author
1886 – 1958
Who was Lennox Robinson?
Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson was an Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre.
Robinson was born in Westgrove, Douglas in County Cork and raised in a Protestant and Unionist family in which he was the youngest of seven children. His father, Andrew Robinson, was a middle-class stockbroker who in 1892 decided to become a clergyman in the Church of Ireland in the small Ballymoney parish, near Ballineen in West Cork. A sickly child, Robinson was educated by private tutor and at Bandon Grammar School. In August 1907, his interest in the theatre began after he went to see an Abbey production of plays by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory at the Cork Opera House. He published his first poem that same year. His first play, The Cross Roads, was performed in the Abbey in 1909 and he became manager of the theatre towards the end of that year. He resigned in 1914 as a result of a disastrous tour of the United States but returned in 1919. He was appointed to the board of the theatre in 1923 and continued to serve in that capacity until his death.
As a playwright, Robinson showed himself as a nationalist with plays like Patriots and Dreamers.
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- Born
- Oct 4, 1886
County Cork - Religion
- Anglicanism
- Profession
- Lived in
- County Cork
- Died
- Oct 15, 1958
- Resting place
- St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
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on July 23, 2013
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