Teresa Deevy

Teresa Deevy, a prolific and established Irish playwright of the early twentieth century, studied at University College Dublin and University College Cork. Beginning in the mid- 1920s, the Abbey Theatre produced her plays Reapers, A Disciple, Temporal Powers, The King of Spain's Daughter, Katie Roche, and The Wild Goose.　She was elected to the Irish Academy of Letters in 1954.