Maureen Toal (7 September 1930 â€" 24 August 2012) was an Irish stage
and television actress whose professional career lasted for more than
sixty years.She was born in 1930 and was originally from Fairview,
Dublin. Toal began performing at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1946,
when she was just sixteen years old. She became a fixture at the
theatre, portraying Bessie Burgess in The Plough and the Stars and the
Widow Quinn in The Playboy of the Western World. She also appeared in
several one woman shows, including Baglady, which was written by Irish
playwright Frank McGuinness.Another playwright, John B. Keane, wrote
the role of Mame Fadden in his play, The Change in Mame Fadden,
specifically for Toal. Hugh Leonard also penned characters in his
plays A life and Great Big Blonde with the intention of casting Toal
in the parts. Toal was best known to Irish television audiences for
her role as Teasy McDaid on RTÉ One's Glenroe during the 1990s.The
University College Dublin awarded Toal an honorary doctorate in
literature in 2010.
and television actress whose professional career lasted for more than
sixty years.She was born in 1930 and was originally from Fairview,
Dublin. Toal began performing at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1946,
when she was just sixteen years old. She became a fixture at the
theatre, portraying Bessie Burgess in The Plough and the Stars and the
Widow Quinn in The Playboy of the Western World. She also appeared in
several one woman shows, including Baglady, which was written by Irish
playwright Frank McGuinness.Another playwright, John B. Keane, wrote
the role of Mame Fadden in his play, The Change in Mame Fadden,
specifically for Toal. Hugh Leonard also penned characters in his
plays A life and Great Big Blonde with the intention of casting Toal
in the parts. Toal was best known to Irish television audiences for
her role as Teasy McDaid on RTÉ One's Glenroe during the 1990s.The
University College Dublin awarded Toal an honorary doctorate in
literature in 2010.
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