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Who, asked Yeats at the Arts Club in the 1920s, is the girl with a head like a lion? It was Shelah Richards’ first meeting with the poet, and he carne to regard her so highly that he cast her as his Player Queen. She seems always to have had that knack of drawing the attention of the distinguished. Were this all, she might have been a hostess, a patron. But she was, and is still, a distinguished actress, so considerable that her name immediately comes to mind whenever great ladies of the Irish theatre are mentioned.
RTE Guide (Dublin), 19 Aug 1966, p. 15.
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Shelah Richards (1903–85) joined the Abbey Company in 1924. See the notice which appeared to mark her eightieth birthday, when a presentation was made to her at the Abbey Theatre: ‘It Was Exciting’, interview with Fintan O’Toole, Sunday Tribune (Dublin), 22 May 1983, p. 17.
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Richards, S. (1988). Great Lady of the Irish Theatre. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_41
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