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Introduction
Eileen Crowe (2 March 1899 - 8 May 1978) was an Irish actress most commonly known for her roles in plays such as The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock , and The Shadow of a Gunman. Most of Crowe's performances occurred in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland between 1921 and 1970.

Some of her most prominent appearances were in the works of Irish playwrights such as Teresa Deevy's Katie Roche in 1936, 1949, and 1953, and in Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars where she appeared as A Woman from Rathmines  , Rosie Redmond,  and most famously as Bessie Burgess from 1942 to 1965. Crowe kept this leading role when she and her fellow Abbey players featured in the film version of The Plough and the Stars directed by John Ford in 1936. Crowe performed alongside various other Irish actors such as Barry Fitzgerald, Maureen Delaney, and Una O'Connor during her time in the Abbey Theatre and its productions.

Early Life
Born Alice Isobella in Glasnevin, North Co. Dublin, Eileen Crowe was one of 3 daughters and 4 sons to Moses Crowe, a grocer, and his first wife Theresa Crowe (née Eglinton) who married in 1896. The Crowe family lived in 1 Carlingford Terrace in Glasnevin, North Co. Dublin.

Eileen Crowe's mother, Theresa, died on the 23rd of May, 1909 of carcinoma at the age of 36, her father then married his second wife, Mary, in 1911.

Family Life
Eileen Crowe began her work in the Abbey Theatre in 1921 and married fellow "Abbey star" F.J. McCormick (born Peter Christopher Judge) on December 2nd, 1925 in the Roman Catholic Church in Dalkey. The pair performed in hundreds of plays together, mainly in the Abbey Theatre, throughout their marriage.

Crowe died in 1978 and is buried in Deans Grange Cemetery, Blackrock with her husband who died in 1947, aged 56, from a brain tumour.