Is this really where our nickname the Bluebirds came from?

"The Blue Bird" is children's play, written by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in 1909. The play was performed in the New Theatre in Cardiff in October 1911. At around this time, newspaper records refer to the club as the Bluebirds. Although the play was only on for less than a week in Cardiff, it received excellent reviews - possibly tied in with the fact that precisely a week after the play left Cardiff, Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It's the only feasible argument ever put forward for how the nickname came about

"The Blue Bird" is children's play, written by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in 1909. The play was performed in the New Theatre in Cardiff in October 1911. At around this time, newspaper records refer to the club as the Bluebirds. Although the play was only on for less than a week in Cardiff, it received excellent reviews - possibly tied in with the fact that precisely a week after the play left Cardiff, Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It's the only feasible argument ever put forward for how the nickname came about

Sounds good to me....

yes it is,,, i read that years ago, just jogged my memory

Its just as well then the New theatre did'nt have a pantomime on fancy being called the Puss in Boots or the Dick Whittinghams