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    Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler...
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    for many of leading Irish playwrights, including William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, Seán O'Casey and John Millington Synge, as well as leading actors. In...
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    was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years...
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    best known for her biography of Anglo-Irish dramatist and folklorist Lady Gregory. Hill was born in London and educated at North London Collegiate School...
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  • Aibell (section Lady Gregory)
    MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 3 Lady Gregory, "Gods and Fighting Men," Part I, Book IV at sacred-texts.com...
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    later parted ways with Yeats and Gregory, something he later regretted, but remained on warm terms with Lady Gregory till the end of his life. Martyn...
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    run at the Abbey Theatre, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. His other major works include In the Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders...
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  • The Irish Literary Theatre was founded by W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn in Dublin, Ireland, in 1899. It proposed to give performances...
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  • The Rising of the Moon is a play by Augusta, Lady Gregory. It is a political play which examines Anglo - Irish relations. It was first produced on March...
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  • Love Songs of Connacht, which inspired Yeats, John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory. Thomas A. Finlay founded the New Ireland Review, a literary magazine...
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  • of the Celtic People Elathan - Lady Gregory: Gods and Fighting Men Elathan is used incorrectly by Squire and Lady Gregory, as Elathan is the genitive case...
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    the strongest advocates of the English Reformation. In 1537, Gregory married Elizabeth, Lady Ughtred, widow of Sir Anthony Ughtred, sister to Jane Seymour...
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    1880, Robert's great-grandson, William Henry Gregory married Isabella Augusta Persse, who became Lady Gregory. The death in World War I of their only child...
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  • printed by O'Donovan is as follows; the tale has also been retold by Lady Gregory, and her emendations will be noted below as well. In a place called Druim...
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    Gregory PC (Ire) KCMG (13 July 1816 – 6 March 1892) was an Anglo-Irish writer and politician, who is now less remembered than his wife Augusta, Lady Gregory...
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    hags". The following verses are excerpts from a 1919 translation by Lady Augusta Gregory. I am the Hag of Beare, An ever-new smock I used to wear; Today—such...
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    he learned from Scáthach, was installed in Armagh in 2010. Augusta, Lady Gregory retold many of the legends of Cú Chulainn in her 1902 book Cuchulain...
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    functioned as Cuala Press, publicising the works of such writers as Yeats, Lady Gregory, Colum, Synge, and Gogarty. At the suggestion of Emery Walker, Elizabeth...
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    Victoria, Lady Welby (27 April 1837 – 29 March 1912), more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated British philosopher of language, musician...
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    was sex, and bodily functions removed, but also humor. The version by Lady Gregory (1903) took on a more 'folkish' aspect, whereas in O'Grady's version...
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  • government to continue funding the Abbey. Viewing this as a threat, Lady Gregory wrote to O'Brien stating that "If we have to choose between the subsidy...
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    silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. The Augusta, Lady Gregory play called The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children is a fable...
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  • looming rebellion upon the arrival of French aid. W. B. Yeats and Augusta, Lady Gregory based their 1902 nationalist play, Cathleen Ní Houlihan, on the legend...
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    been made familiar through retellings of Irish mythology, notably by Lady Gregory, but also others where we learn that Cian mounts on a quest to recover...
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    Irish Literary Revival. Irish writers including William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, "Æ" Russell, Edward Martyn, Alice Milligan and Edward Plunkett (Lord...
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    rights depict a lady of the Cromwell family aged 21 c.1535–40" and suggested that the lady might be Elizabeth Seymour, wife of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron...
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  • series of poems by W. B. Yeats. The only child of William Henry Gregory and Lady Gregory, an associate of W. B. Yeats, Robert was born in County Galway...
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    taken as a version of the birth of Lugh, and was adapted as such by Lady Gregory. In this tale, Balor hears a druid's prophecy that he will be killed...
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  • wooing of Balor's daughter Eithne. She is reinvented as a druidess in Lady Gregory and T. W. Rolleston's retellings. A version of the folktale recorded...
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    and the adjacent workhouse, were built at this time. Coole House, Lady Gregory's home, served as a base for the Irish Literary Revival in the late 1800s...
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