Irish theatre playwright now stands outside the gallery entrance. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. A sea change in the history of the Irish theatre came with the establishment in Dublin in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn. This was followed by the Irish National Theatre Society, later to become the Abbey Theatre. The history of this theatre is well documented, and its importance can be seen from the list of writers whose plays were first performed here in the early days of the 20th century. These included
The Dublin Magazine novelist Maurice Walsh, Padraic Fallon, Padraic Colum, Patrick Kavanagh and Blanaid Salkeld among others. It was re-issued from 1970-75 by John Ryan. The Dublin Magazine The Dublin Magazine was an Irish literary journal founded and edited by the poet Seamus O'Sullivan (real name James Sullivan Starkey) and published in Dublin by New Square Publications. Between August 1923 to August 1925 it was published as a monthly, then quarterly from January 1926 to June 1958, ceasing publication on O'Sullivan's death. The cover for the first issue was designed by artist Harry Clarke. The magazine featured fiction, poetry, drama and reviews and