# On Baile's Strand

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Play written by W. B. Yeats

On Baile's Strand On Baile's Strand was first published in the 1903 poetry volume In the Seven Woods (cover pictured) Written by W. B. Yeats Characters Cuchulain Subject Irish folklore

***On Baile's Strand*** is a play written by [W. B. Yeats](/source/W._B._Yeats) and first printed in *[In the Seven Woods](/source/In_the_Seven_Woods)* published by [Dun Emer Press](/source/Dun_Emer_Press) in 1903.[1] The play was first performed at the grand opening of the [Abbey Theatre](/source/Abbey_Theatre) on 27 December 1904.[2] The play is based around the Irish mythological hero [Cuchulain](/source/Cuchulain).[1]

## History

The story is based on the early Irish folk story *[Aided Óenfhir Aífe](/source/Aided_%C3%93enfhir_A%C3%ADfe)*, but with significant changes to the tale, including the addition of a comic subplot. The play received significant revision in 1905.[3][4]

### 1938 production

The play was performed again on 4 April 1938. W. B. Yeats's daughter [Anne Yeats](/source/Anne_Yeats) designed for this second production, taking responsibility for the setting and costumes. Anne Yeats was 19 when she produced the second performance of *On Baile's Strand*.[5] Anne Yeats designed many character sketches in a number of notebooks she kept, which are held at the archives of the National Gallery of Ireland; these sketches include designs for *Cuchulain*, played by [Liam Redmond](/source/Liam_Redmond).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

Other characters include:

- A Blind Man (William O'Gorman)

- A Fool ([Cyril Cusack](/source/Cyril_Cusack))

- [Conchubar](/source/Conchobar_mac_Nessa) (John Stephenson)

- A Young Man ([Wilfrid Brambell](/source/Wilfrid_Brambell))

- Young kings and Old Kings (Malachi Keegan, Denis O'Neill, J. Winter, F. Webster, Frank Carney, Patrick H. Considine)

- Three Women (Ann Clery, Gertrude Quinn, Kathleen O'Byrne)

- Servant ([Peggy Cummins](/source/Peggy_Cummins))[5]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-jeffares_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-jeffares_1-1) Jeffares, Alexander Norman; Knowland, A. S. (1975). [*A Commentary on the Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats*](https://books.google.com/books?id=QeWeAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA99). Stanford University Press. pp. 99–100. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-804-70875-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-804-70875-4).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Welch, Robert (2003). [*The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999*](https://books.google.com/books?id=64kGuhailksC&pg=PA32). [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). p. 32. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-199-26135-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-199-26135-0).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Owens, Cóilín (1990). [*Irish Drama, 1900-1980*](https://archive.org/details/irishdrama19001900owen/page/41). [Catholic University of America Press](/source/Catholic_University_of_America_Press). p. [41](https://archive.org/details/irishdrama19001900owen/page/41). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-813-20705-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-813-20705-3).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["On Baile's Strand"](https://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=32034). *www.irishplayography.com*. Retrieved 10 December 2019.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_5-1) *Abbey Theatre programme*. Dublin: Abbey Theatre. 1938.

## External links

English [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource) has original text related to this article:

**[On Baile's Strand](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:On_Baile%27s_Strand)**

- *[On Baile's Strand](https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41102)* at [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg) - [*On Baile's Strand*](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41102/41102-h/41102-h.htm#ON_BAILES_STRAND), direct HTML link, at [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg)

v t e W. B. Yeats Poetry Volumes The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889) The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) In the Seven Woods (1903) Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916) The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) The Tower (1928) The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) Poems "Adam's Curse" "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" "Blood and the Moon" "The Circus Animals' Desertion" "Down by the Salley Gardens" "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" "Easter, 1916" "Ego Dominus Tuus" "The Fiddler of Dooney" "The Gift of Harun Al-Raschid" "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz" "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" "On being asked for a War Poem" "Politics" "A Prayer for My Daughter" "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" "The Rose of Battle" "The Rose-Tree" "Sailing to Byzantium" "The Scholars" "The Second Coming" "September 1913" "The Song of the Happy Shepherd" "Song of the Old Mother" "The Song of Wandering Aengus" "The Stolen Child" "Swift's Epitaph" "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" "The Tower" "Under Ben Bulben" "The Wanderings of Oisin" "The Wild Swans at Coole" Plays Mosada (1886) The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) Diarmuid and Grania (1901) Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) On Baile's Strand (1903) The Countess Cathleen (1911) At the Hawk's Well (1916) The Resurrection (1927) Purgatory (1938) Other works The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical (1893; co-author) A Vision (1925) The Bounty of Sweden (1925) "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows" Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor) The Ten Principal Upanishads (1938, co-translator) People Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife) Anne Yeats (daughter) Michael Yeats (son) John Butler Yeats (father) Susan Pollexfen (mother) Jack Butler Yeats (brother) Elizabeth Yeats (sister) Lily Yeats (sister) Maud Gonne (muse) Related W. B. Yeats bibliography Rhymers' Club Dun Emer Press Cuala Press An Appointment with Mr Yeats Owen Red Hanrahan "Troy" Thoor Ballylee Samhain magazine The Speckled Bird

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