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Victoria O’Brien trained at the Irish National College of Dance and is a graduate of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and the Laban Centre. Her PhD research focused on the history of early twentieth-century Irish ballet and was completed at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, where she continues to lecture and holds the position of Development Officer at the National Dance Archive of Ireland.
«(...) this book is an important contribution to dance scholarship. [...] It not only documents a lost period but also opens up other areas of scholarship and even the possibility of restaging forgotten works. Supplementing O’Brien’s painstaking research are the memories of key dancers, such as Ester Ó Brolcháin, who provide the valuable narrative behind posters and programmes.» (Michael Seaver, The Irish Times) «(...) this is an important book, and O’Brien has laid the groundwork for other researchers to further explore the artists and characters of this lost history of Irish performance.» (Sara Keating, The Sunday Business Post)
