12 Facts About Kitty MacCormack

Kitty MacCormack was an Irish designer with the Dun Emer Guild, theatre set designer, actress and author.

Kitty MacCormack was the daughter of Constance MacCormack, and niece of Evelyn Gleeson.

Kitty MacCormack was born in 1892, and after the death of her father in 1902, the family lived with Gleeson at her home, at Runnemede, Sandyford Road, Dublin with her mother and siblings, Grace and Edward.

Kitty MacCormack appeared in Joseph Plunkett's 1912 play The Dance of Osiris at the Hardwicke Theatre, and designed the sets.

Kitty MacCormack often acted under the name Catia or Caitia Nic Cormac.

Kitty MacCormack designed sets for the Irish National Theatre Society, Theatre Company of Ireland and the Dublin Drama League.

Kitty MacCormack designed the poster for the 1927 "Grand Pageant of Dublin History".

Kitty MacCormack developed a set of designs for judicial robes for W T Cosgrave in 1924, drawing on the Brehon style sketches of which are held in University College Dublin Archives.

Kitty MacCormack was an illustrator, beginning with Christmas card designs for Dun Emer in the 1910s.

Kitty MacCormack illustrated John Hackett Pollock's 1919 The wisdom of the world: A book of wonder-tales published by Colm O Lochlainn's Candle Press under Pollock's pseudonym An Philibin.

Kitty MacCormack edited a volume for O Lochlainn in 1920, The Book of St Ultan; a collection of pictures and poems by Irish artists and writers, proceeds of which went to St Ultan's Hospital.

The Kitty MacCormack Archive is held by the Jackie Clarke Archive, and the National Library of Ireland holds a collection of her theatre ephemera and letters.