American Theatre, February 1st, 2008
DUBLIN: A school for scandal has emerged over the campaign to preserve 12 Dorset Street, the Dublin birthplace of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In a September '07 report in The Irish Independent, Sheridan historians based at Ireland's Trinity College have proved "conclusively (that) the house was never owned by the Sheridan family and (that) the playwright couldn't have been born" at the house, which has fallen into disrepair. "The preservation of 12 Dorset Street, one of the great causes celebres of the conservation movement, was a costly farce," the Independent reported. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...
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