Lennox Robinson Author & Editor

Lennox Robinson was born in County Cork in 1886. He was a prominent playwright and theatre producer with a long association with Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. His support of Irish nationalism came from watching productions at the theatre and he often wrote about Irish politics and conflict in his plays.

Robinson wrote and edited several books including The Oxford Book of Irish Verse and an autobiography, Curtain Up in 1942. He died in 1958.