Micheal Mac Liammoir

MICHEAL MAC LIAMMOIR d1978. Actor, designer, dramatist, writer and impresario in 20th-century Ireland. With his partner Hilton Edwards and two others, he founded the Gate Theatre in Dublin and became one of the most recognisable figures in the arts in twentieth-century Ireland. As well as acting at the Gate and internationally, he designed numerous productions, wrote eleven plays and published stories, verse and travel books in Irish and English. He wrote and appeared in three one-man shows of which The Importance of Being Oscar (1960) was the most celebrated, achieving more than 1300 performances. He died in Dublin aged 78 on March 6th 1978