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Arthur Shields Remembers the Abbey with Pride

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This past summer, Arthur Shields came back1 to spend a holiday in Ireland. It was his third and longest visit since he left in 1939, and he spent it in County Wicklow, in a long, low house on the banks of the Avonmore.

Irish Times (Dublin), 28 Sept 1964, p. 8.

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  • See his earlier recollections, p. 133, and Quidnunc, ‘An Irishman’s Diary’, Irish Times (Dublin), 3 July 1964, p. 7.

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Fitzgerald, M. (1988). Arthur Shields Remembers the Abbey with Pride. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_40

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