January 2006

(Above) Irish Press (Scéala Éireann) article with accompanying photograph dated 6 January 1960 detailing the attendance of President de Valera and his wife Sinéad at the Abbey Theatre’s Christmas pantomime, “Gráinne na Long”. Also featured in the photograph is Ernest Blythe, managing director of the Abbey and former minister and senator.

(NAI, Office of the Secretary to the President, PRES 1/P 543)