Bücher von Micheal Mac Liammoir

Micheal MacLiammoir (1899-1978), artist, actor, designer, author and producer, founded the Gate Theatre, along with his partner Hilton Edwards, in October 1928. He wrote several stage adaptations as well as thirteen plays. Among them are Diarmuid agus Grainne (1928), Where Stars Walk (1940), Ill Met by Moonlight (1946), Home For Christmas (1950) and Prelude in Kazbek Street (1973). His books include All For Hecuba: An Irish Theatrical Autobiography (1946), Put Money In Thy Purse; A Diary of the Filming of Othello (1952), Aisteoiri Faoi Dha Shoals - Dialann Mheanmhara (1956) later translated and published as Each Actor on His Ass (1960), and Enter a Goldfish: Memoirs of an Irish Actor Young and Old (1977). His one-man dramatic monologues, The Importance of Being Oscar (1960), I Must Be Talking to My Friends (1963) and Talking About Yeats (1965), brought him worldwide renown as they toured to the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, America and South America. He received many literary honours: the 1957 Douglas Hyde Award, the 1960 Lady Gregory Medal for Literature and a Doctorate of Laws from Trinity College, Dublin in 1963. In 1973 the lord mayor of Dublin conferred on him the Freedom of the City.