Background
Hynes was born in Ballaghadereen, Roscommon County and educated at Saint Louis Convent at Monaghan, the Dominican Convent at Galway, and National University of Ireland Galway.
Hynes was born in Ballaghadereen, Roscommon County and educated at Saint Louis Convent at Monaghan, the Dominican Convent at Galway, and National University of Ireland Galway.
Dominican College, Galw"ay, University College Galway.
She was Druid"s artistic director from 1975 to 1991, and again from 1995 to date. Hynes directed for the Abbey Theatre from 1984 and was its artistic director from 1991 to 1994, and also the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Exchange, Manchester, the Kennedy Center and the Royal Court Theatre, London. Hynes directed, the company’s critically acclaimed production of all six of John Millington Synge’s plays premièred at the Galway Arts Festival in 2005 and has since toured to Dublin, Edinburgh, Inis Meáin, Minneapolis and New New York