Life
?1880-? [var. Andrew P. Wilson]; b. Scotland; came to Dublin to
serve in the ITGWU as a Larkinite organiser; contrib. The Irish Worker;
wrote controversially against Sean O’Casey under pseud. ‘Euchan’;
joined Abbey as junior actor; rose to manage and chief producer; produced
his own play The Slough (1913), on the Lock-Out, appearing as Larkin;
noticed in Great Soviet Encyclopaedia; quarrelled with Yeats over
staging of Deirdre of the Sorrows, and resigned, 1915; managed
Arthur Sinclair’s Irish Players; moved to Scotland where he managed
a theatre company and published plays; Victims and Poached [two
plays] (Dublin: Liberty Hall Players [1916]). DIW DIL
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