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Hi, I am trying to find more information on my great grandma who was called Evelyn Lund born 1885 she was an actress and married Charles Leo Keogh.(no idea what year) They ran a theatre in Dublin called the Torch theatre Capel Street, Dublin.
They had children, 4 daughters Finola, Dorothy, Marjorie and Ethnie and 1 son Dennis,( Dorothy born 1919 was my grandma.)
I am a NOVICE to all of this searching lark, and hope that replies to this post will be of an understanding nature.
Finola Keogh Born 22/6/1922 died 8/8/2003 (Details collected from Finola Keogh's Orbituary)
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ObituaryFinola KeoghActor with a proud family history in Irish Republicanism
John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy The Guardian, Thursday September 25 2003 Article historyThe death of the actor Finola Keogh, at the age of 81, has brought down the curtain on a remarkable series of links, historical and artistic, in Irish and British theatre. We knew and worked with Finola for 30 years; she was known as a "good old trouper" - the backbone of the theatre.
She never allowed her professional values to slip; her notion of good theatre always began with good writers. She fought consistently, within the Equity union and outside it, for better conditions and respect for the acting profession. She was a founder-member in the 1970s of the Actors' Centre in London.
She was born in Dublin: her father Charles Leo Keogh had run an acting company in Ireland and her mother Evelyn Lund was an actor. Finola herself, aged three, took part in Radio Eireann productions in the old Henry Street studios, and she worked as a child actor in her father's company at the Torch Theatre in Capel Street, Dublin.
During the second world war, she served, from 1942 to 1946, in Northern Ireland as an army staff car driver with the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She then studied in London at the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art and gained her experience in the best of British theatre, starting with the Young Vic in London.
She subsequently worked in repertory, and during her career appeared all over Britain. In the 1960s and 70s, she worked as a drama teacher in London. In the 1970s and 80s, she toured with Roland Jaquarello's Green Fields And Far Away company.
We first met her in London in the late 1970s, and were all involved in intense political and cultural activities aimed at getting Britain out of Ireland. We worked together on a dramatisation of the letters between Constance Markiewicz and her sister Eva Gore-Booth, presented at an Irish night in an lslington community centre in the 1970s. She was always an enthusiastic participant in such events, theatrical or semi-theatrical, in London, Belfast or Galway, even after her retirement to Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon, and later to Listowel, where she was active on the committee for the town's writers' week.
In the last two decades of her life, she was a vigorous member of Women in Media and Entertainment, and a delegate to conferences of the National Women's Council of Ireland.
Her style of reminiscence was, to put it mildly, random: out of sheer frustration we finally said to her, "For God's sake, Finola, would you mind writing it down!" This was for a special edition of Theatre Ireland (summer 1992), to which we had been asked to contribute. She responded with a multi-layered and strongly polemical nine-page article, Lifting Lady Gregory's Skirts, which traced the history of the Keoghs of Ranelagh all the way back to the United lrishmen of the 1790s - with particular attention to her uncle J Augustus Keogh, who had worked with Miss Horniman's Gaiety Theatre Company in Manchester and had then become producer/manager at the Abbey in Dublin.
Three other uncles took part in the Easter Rising of 1916; one of them, the schoolboy Gerald, lost his life. Shortly afterwards J Augustus lost his job; Lady Gregory, it seemed, mistrusted his insurrectionary connections, an abject betrayal which Finola would growl about till the end of her days.
Indeed, the last public act of her life was thoroughly in character with her insurrectional lineage - she travelled to Kilrush, Co Clare, to join the supporters of the anti-lraq-war activist Mary Kelly, on trial for wrecking a United States warplane at Shannon airport. Her son Tim Homfray survives her.
ยท Finola Maeve Keogh, actor, born June 30 1922; died August 8 2003
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Yes I have the copy of the said Orbituary Thank you. I am now trying to find out more.
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