Theatre Royal, Dublin
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Over the centuries, there have been five theatres in Dublin called the Theatre Royal.
The Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, on the site of the first Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, Hawkins Street
Theatre poster from 1916
1960s image of the Theatre Royal, Hawkins Street
John Ogilby
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John Ogilby was a Scottish translator, impresario, publisher and cartographer. He was probably at least a half-brother to James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie, though neither overtly acknowledged this. Ogilby's most-noted works include translations of the works of Virgil and Homer, and his version of the Fables of Aesop.
Portrait from a 1660 edition of Homer's Iliad
A surveyor's wheel in use (detail from the frontispiece of Britannia)
"The parliament of birds" from Ogilby's "The Fables of Aesop"
"The Road From London to the Lands End" from Britannia