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Collection name Holloway Playbills Collection - Queen's Theatre, Great Brunswick Street (1917-41)
Unique identifier Holloway Playbills - Queen's Theatre 1905-28.
Description 4 boxes of playbills collected by Joseph Holloway relating to the Queen's Theatre, Great Brunswick Street from 1917 to 1941 including:

11/6/17-23/6/17: Russisan Opera Company
11/11/[year unknown]: 'The Demon's Pawn' produced by Dan Byrne, chorus and orchestra conducted by the Composer E.J. Taylor.
9/5/[year unknown]-14/5/[year unknown]: Opera Week in aid of Ringsend Bazaar, conducted by Mr. Samuel J. Flynn, at the piano Miss Dora Langron.
5/12/[year unknown]: Dublin Opera Company
19/4/24: Dublin Opera Company
20/7/1941: Dublin Juvenile Orchestra.

The collection also includes programmes for musical, revue and mixed musical and dramatic events.
Date range 1917 - 1941
Associated People and Organisations Byrne, Dan - Dublin Juvenile Orchestra - Dublin Opera Company - Flynn, Samuel - Holloway, Joseph - Langron, Dora - Russian Opera Company - Taylor, E.J. -
Associated Places Queen's Theatre, Dublin
Associated Times 20th century - early 1900-1930 20th century - mid 1931-1970
Associated Content Opera
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