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Donagh MacDonagh

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LyricistBook Writer 1912–1968

Donagh MacDonagh (22 November 1912 – 1 January 1968) was an Irish writer, judge, presenter, broadcaster, and playwright.

Also credited on1 work

Happy as Larry

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In the literature3 passages

  • Donagh MacDonagh’s Happy as Larry began life as an unproduced verse play that was published in 1946, and was later staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and then in London for almost a year’s run. One critic, who was unimpressed with the whimsical and overly complicated plot, suggested the script might best serve as the libretto for a mus…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Aideen O'Kelly and Eddie Golden in Donagh MacDonagh's Happy as Larry, Abbey Theatre, Dublin. [Dermot Barry photograph]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • who was executed for his part in the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Although Donagh MacDonagh wrote with much feeling, he expressed remarkably little rancor consideringtheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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