Declan Kiberd Appointed to Abbey Theatre Board

Declan Kiberd has been appointed to the new board of the overhauled Abbey Theatre.

Professor Kiberd has published widely on Irish drama and is internationally recognised as a leading expert on the work of Abbey playwright John Millington Synge. He is the author of the ground-breaking study Synge and the Irish Language and has written extensively on Irish theatre in his books Inventing Ireland and Irish Classics. His most recent book, The Irish Writer and the World was published in the last few months by Cambridge University Press.

The Abbey Theatre is currently undergoing a process of radical redevelopment which will involve relocating to a new building in Dublin’s Docklands in 2009.