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The son of a Dublin upholsterer, Macready started his career playing in Irish country towns. He joined the Capel Street
Theatre in Dublin in 1782, and the
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Macready took only supporting roles, to 1797: he was one of the proverbial "second-rate walking gentlemen". Then he sought to become an
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1004:The Bristol Stage: its story (1919), pp. 34–6;
1348:. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
1137:. Kent State University Press. pp. 83–4.
584:. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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