On this day 70 years ago, June 1 1953, Scoil Íde opened for the first time. In 1952, the Sisters of Jesus and Mary purchased Allen’s Hotel on Dalysfort Road which had been run by John and Angela Allen. It had at one time been known as Daly’s Fort House, a high-class hotel run by a Mrs Galbraith. She sold it to a Mr Miller of Persse’s Distillers who used it as a private house and he sold it on to the Allens. Many will remember it as the place where Bruce Woodcock, the English Heavyweight champion, trained for his famous fight with Máirtín Thornton.
Live performances, virtual audiences
BC senior Jacob Kelleher, director of Proof,” which kicks off the new season. (Lee Pellegrini)
Student thespians will take to the Robsham Theater Arts Center stage for live performances this semester. But instead of playing to a full house, their audiences will be virtual.
Among the productions is the premiere of a play conceived last fall by 2014 alumna Maggie Kearnan, which she wrote specifically for performance during the pandemic. Before last September, this play was not even a twinkle in her eye,” according its director, Professor of Theatre Scott T. Cummings.
“Building on the success of last semester’s productions both artistically and in terms of safety the Theatre Department is putting on four live productions this semester,” said Associate Professor of the Practice and Department Chair Luke Jorgensen.