The Irish Repertory Theatre's 35th Season Celebration Running through May 5, 2024 The Irish Repertory Theatre is celebrating its 35th season by presenting three plays by Brian Friel, Translations, Aristocrats, and Philadelphia, Here I Come! running through May 5, 2024. Brian Friel was a dramatist and writer often referred to as the ‘Irish Chekhov’ for
Drogheda has always enjoyed a great tradition when it comes to movies and I have discovered a few more links.
Fans of old films will recognise the picture (but perhaps not the name) but it s Sarah Allgood, a star of the black and white Hollywood films from the 1930s and 40s.
She featured in such classics as How Green Was My Valley , Cheaper by the Dozen and The Spiral Staircase .
Sarah passed away in 1950 in Hollywood and her death sparked a great local angle.
The Allgood family were from Dublin but had an old association with Drogheda by reason of the fact that in 1900, Sarah Allgood s sister-Marie O Neill-resided in the town with friends of hers -the Bernard McArevy family, high class furniture manufacturers, who then carried on their business at what would become the site of the Abbey Cinema on West Street.