Lyceum Theatre, London
Irving was also a dramatist, his stage plays including "Robespierre" (1899), "Richard Lovelace" (1901), "Dante" (1903), "The Fool Hath Said: There Is No God" (1908), "The Incubus" (1909), "The Affinity" (1910), and "The Three Daughters Of Monsieur Dupont" (1910). Due to the financial failure of his play "Dante" his father was forced to sell the Lyceum Theatre, London. Irving was married to a fellow performer, actress Mabel Lucy Hackney (1872–1914).