A celebrated and prolific writerBy the early 1930s, Teresa Deevy was a celebrated and prolific playwright. In 1936, critic St. John Ervine saw her most famous play, Katie Roche, and wrote in The Observer: “Miss Deevy may be a genius.”WB Yeats wanted to rewrite Teresa Deevy's work. There was no Waking the Feminists then, alas, but despite the blow, Teresa Deevy went on to write several plays for RTE and BBC radio. Deaf cultureTeresa Deevy’s work also shines a light on another area that is too often neglected — Deaf culture (note the capital ‘D’). We’ve barely scratched the surface of Teresa Deevy and her work, which was seen again at the Abbey in 2017, but we can’t sign off without highlighting the importance of archives.

Source: Irish Examiner February 17, 2021 06:22 UTC