Dublin s Graftonia – a very literary neighbourhood – Ireland s Own irelandsown.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irelandsown.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On January 26, 1907, John Millington Synge's “The Playboy of the Western World” opened at the Abbey Theater in Dublin and caused such a fuss that projectiles were flung at the stage and a riot ensued.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"