Maire O'Neill/Sara Allgood (1885-1952),
här i rollen som Pegeen Mike i Synges "Hjälten från den gröna ön".
Från engelska Wikipedia:
Born as Mary Allgood, she was known as "Molly". After her father's, she and her older sister Sara were sent to an orphanage, after which Molly was apprenticed to a dressmaker. Maud Gonne had set up Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Erin) in 1900 to educate Irish women about Irish history, language and the arts, and both Sara and Molly joined the drama classes. Their coach was Willie Fay and he enrolled them in the National Theatre Society, which became better known as the Abbey Theatre.In 1905, Molly met Irish playwright John Millington Synge for the first time and he fell in love with her. In September 1907, he had surgery for the removal of troublesome neck glands, but a later tumour was found to be inoperable. They got engaged before his death in March 1909. Synge wrote the plays The Playboy of the Western World and Deirdre of the Sorrows for her.[1] O'Neill appeared in films from 1930 to 1953, including Alfred Hitchcock's Juno and the Paycock (1930).]
She died in Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke, England, on 2 November 1952, aged 67, where she was receiving treatment after being badly burned in a fire at her London home.Joseph O'Connor's 2010 novel, Ghost Light, is loosely based on Allgood's relationship with Synge.
