Gabriel Fallon

Gabriel Fallon (1898–10 June 1980) was an Irish theatre critic, actor and theatre director.

He was born in Dublin and joined the Civil Service in 1914. He became an actor in the Abbey Theatre, where he remained until 1930 when he started to spend more time on journalism. He was drama critic for the Irish Monthly, Catholic Standard and Evening Press.[1]

He was director of the Abbey Theatre from 1959 to 1974.

He was married with six children. A devout Catholic, Fallon was an early member of An Ríoghacht.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Boylan, Henry (1998). A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition. Dublin: Gill and MacMillan. p. 126. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
  2. ↑ Maurice Curtis, A Challenge to Democracy: Militant Catholicism in Modern Ireland, The History Press Ireland, 2010, p. 55