{"id":29030,"date":"2025-08-28T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29030\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:15:09","slug":"theatre-director-garry-hynes-my-wife-and-i-had-a-tradition-of-reusing-the-same-card-for-each-others-birthdays-wed-add-a-new-message-each-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29030\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre director Garry Hynes: \u2018My wife and I had a tradition of reusing the same card for each other\u2019s birthdays. We\u2019d add a new message each time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Druid founder on her love of books, Van Morrison and her advice for young creatives\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garry Hynes. Photo: Ste Murray\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7047b03d-95d8-4f13-bc3e-a0a0ed3ddf9f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Garry Hynes. Photo: Ste Murray<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Garry Hynes is a theatre director from Co Roscommon and co-founded the Druid Theatre Company 50 years ago. She has held the role of the company\u2019s artistic director on and off, and over the course of her career has directed for the Abbey Theatre, The Gaiety Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She was married to film producer Martha O\u2019Neill, who passed away earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What\u2019s your earliest memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Druid founder on her love of books, Van Morrison and her advice for young creatives Garry Hynes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[23203,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-29030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-aoife-rooney","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}