Our plays this year will be produced by Mr. Benson at the Gaiety Theatre on October the 21st, and on some of the succeeding days. They are Dr. Douglas Hyde’s _Casadh an t-Sugain_, which is founded on a well known Irish story of a wandering poet; and _Diarmuid and Grania_, a play in three acts and in prose by Mr. George Moore and myself, which is founded on the most famous of all Irish stories, the story of the lovers whose beds were the cromlechs. The first act of _Diarmuid and Grania_ is in the great banqueting hall of Tara, and the second and third on the slopes of Ben Bulben in Sligo. We do not think there is anything in either play to offend anybody, but we make no promises. We thought our plays inoffensive last year and the year before, but we were accused the one year of sedition, and the other of heresy. I have called this little collection of writings _Samhain_, the old name for the beginning of winter, because our plays this year are in October, and because our Theatre is coming to an end in its present shape. 1902 The Irish Literary Theatre wound up its three years of experiment last October with _Diarmuid and Grania_, which was played by Mr. Benson’s Company, Mr. Benson himself playing Diarmuid with poetry and fervour, and _Casadh an t-Sugain_, played by Dr. Hyde and some members of the Gaelic League. _Diarmuid and Grania_ drew large audiences, but its version of the legend was a good deal blamed by critics, who knew only the modern text of the story. There are two versions, and the play was fully justified by Irish and Scottish folk-lore, and by certain early Irish texts, which do not see Grania through very friendly eyes. Any critic who is interested in so dead a controversy can look at the folk-tales quoted by Campbell in, I think, _West Highland Superstitions_, and at the fragment translated by Kuno Meyer, at page 458 of Vol. I. of _Zeitschrift für Keltische Philologie_. Dr. Hyde’s play, on the other hand, pleased everybody, and has been played a good many times in a good many places since. It was the first play in Irish played in a theatre, and did much towards making plays a necessary part in Irish propaganda.