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Siobh\u00e1n McKenna
\n<\/strong>1922 – 1986\"\"
\n<\/strong>Actor and Theatre Director
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Belfast she was brought up in Galway after her family moved for her father\u2019s work, the McKenna household were all fluent Irish speakers. Following an illness she enrolled at the St Louis Secondary School in Monaghan as a boarder, this is where she developed her love of drama.\u00a0 Siobh\u00e1n was primarily a stage actress but also starred in many films and television dramas; she performed nationally and internationally in Galway, Dublin, London and Broadway.\u00a0 In 1956 she was the first Irish actor to win a Tony award.\u00a0 Brian Friel said \u201cshe personified an idea of Ireland\u201d, she was honoured with life membership of the Abbey Theatre in 1966.<\/p>\n

Image courtesy Siobh\u00e1n McKenna Collection, James Hardiman Library Archives, NUIG<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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