Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn in Dublin, Ireland, in 1899.
In 1899 Lady Gregory secured a temporary licence for a play to be given at the Antient Concert Rooms in Great Brunswick St in Dublin, and so enabled the Irish Literary Theatre to give its first production.
In the following year the Irish Literary Theatre produced at the Gaiety Theatre three plays: Maeve by Edward Martyn, The Last Feast of Fianna by Alice Milligan, and The Bending of the Bough by George Moore.
[2] The Irish Literary Theatre project lasted until 1901,[3] when it collapsed due to lack of funding.
The use of non-Irish actors in these productions was perceived to be a failure, and a new group of Irish players was put together by the Fay brothers,among others.