Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh
Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh | |
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1904 portraint of Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh, as painted by John Butler Yeats | |
| Born | Mary Elizabeth Walker 8 May 1883 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 9 September 1958 (aged 75) Drogheda, Ireland |
Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh (8 May 1883 – 1958) was an Irish actress and republican activist. She started acting in her teens and appeared in the first Irish-language play performed in Ireland. She was a founder-member of the Abbey Theatre and was leading lady on its opening night in 1904, when she played the title role in W. B. Yeats's Cathleen Ni Houlihan. She later joined the Theatre of Ireland, which she helped to found.