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With a look that would sour milk

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• 5 older comments, and then…
• Suck Diesel said:

  PORTRAIT OF RIA MOONEY, 1928 HARRY KERNOFF RHA (1900-1974) via Hoodworld

• Niall McAuley said:

  At wikipedia. Resident producer at the abbey from 1948 to 63.

• Niall McAuley said:

  The play is by Lady Gregory, from 1904, and was performed at the Abbey as late as 1961 according to its own wikipedia page. Mooney would presumably have been playing Mrs. Fallon.

• Carol Maddock said:

  This, from her impressive life in the deadly Dictionary of Irish Biography, is delicious: "Although she had always wanted to be an actress, she had not been keen to act at the Abbey. Reminiscing in an unpublished autobiography, she alluded to its members, particularly W. B. Yeats and Lennox Robinson, as ‘odd-looking people’."

• Niall McAuley said:

  Born Maria Mooney 30th April 1903.