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Who founded the Irish Literary Theatre?

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In 1898 with Lady Augusta Gregory , George Moore , and Edward Martyn he founded the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin; their first production (1899) was Yeats's The Countess Cathleen (written 1889-92).

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