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Mission Dolores

By Jim Sullivan

January / February 1994

January 7, 1994 by Leave a Comment

A Californian Mission's Irish Past Mission Dolores, the oldest building in San Francisco, was the sixth of twenty-one missions, built under the direction of Father Junipero Serra and the Franciscan fathers, that would eventually stretch "about a hard day's drive [ride] from one to the next," from the Mexican border to an area north of San Francisco now known as Sonoma … [Read more...] about Mission Dolores

1992 Yeats International Theatre Festival

By James W. Flannery, Director, W.B. Yeats Drama Foundation

July August 1992

July 23, 1992 by Leave a Comment

More than half a century after his death, William Butler Yeats is still Ireland's foremost avant-garde playwright. We return to his theatre work, in all it diversity and contradictions, not because we are sure of its place in the repertoire of modern Irish theatre, but because we are not. Yeats' plays are unsettled and unsettling, radically incomplete until methods of … [Read more...] about 1992 Yeats International Theatre Festival

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