Rhapsody in Stephen’s Green survives thanks to the acumen of R. Russell Maylone, Curator of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library, who obtained the Gate Theatre Archive. I am grateful to him, and to Mrs. Evelyn O’Nolan, for permission to publish the play. I also wish to thank Ann Tisa of the Northwestern Library’s Special Collections for her help, and Daniel H. Garrison of the Northwestern University Department of Classics for patiently checking many details. My other debts of gratitude are to Sheila Ryan, Curator of Manuscripts at the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where Myles’s papers are kept; to Nancy Axelrod of the Entomological Library, University of California, Berkeley; to Patricia Donlon, Director of the National Library of Ireland, for permission to quote unpublished passages from Joseph Holloway’s diaries; and to Margaret Me Peake and her Apple Macintosh.
R.T.