sub-series 2 - Irish Ballet Company

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IE 2135 NDAI N4/1/2

Title

Irish Ballet Company

Date(s)

  • c. 1975-1983 (Creation)

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4 sub-series

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Name of creator

(1958-)

Biographical history

Patricia Crosbie was born in Cork in 1958 and began her early dance training in Joan Denise Moriarty’s school of dance. She danced with Cork Ballet Company, founded by Moriarty in 1947; and in the Irish Ballet Company, founded by Moriarty in 1973 and renamed Irish National Ballet in 1983. Her many roles included Odette/ Odile in Swan Lake; Sugar Plum Fairy/ Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, and Widow Quin in The Playboy of the Western World. She is ballet mistress with Cork City Ballet.

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Scope and content

Programmes, promotional material, photographs, publications and other material relating to Irish Ballet Company, founded by Joan Denise Moriarty in 1973.

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Accruals

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This sub-series has been arranged into four sub-series by document type.

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  • Béarla
  • Slóivéinis

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