Lady Augusta Gregory (Author of Gods and Fighting Men)


Augusta, Lady Gregory Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Isabella Augusta Persse was born on March 15, 1852, the youngest of sixteen children in her Irish family. When she was twenty-eight years of age, she married Sir William Henry Gregory, thirty-five years her senior and a landowner and politician, which perhaps influenced Lady Gregory's own engagement in politics later in her life.


Lady Augusta Gregory (Author of Gods and Fighting Men)

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, née Isabella Augusta Persse, most commonly known as Lady Gregory, was an Irish writer, a playwright, and a translator. Her commitment to works in the Irish language was vital to the Irish literary revival of the late 1800s. With William Butler Yeats, she cofounded the Irish Literary Theatre in 1899; this later became the Abbey Theatre, famous for its production.


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Gregory, (Isabella) Augusta (1852-1932), Lady Gregory, writer, folklorist and patron of the arts, was born Isabella Augusta Persse at Roxborough House, Co. Galway, on 15 March 1852. She was the ninth of thirteen children (eight boys and five girls) of Dudley Persse and his second wife Frances (née Barry).


A TERRIBLE BEAUTY CULTURE & REVOLUTION IN IRELAND RTÉ Presspack

The Irish dramatist Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) is best known for her collaboration with Yeats and Synge in the formation of the Irish National Theatre and the Abbey Theatre Company.


Lady Augusta Gregory One of Isabella’s Pen Pals

Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) is one of Ireland's most important literary figures, her influence and legacy still very much evident today. And yet people are mostly only aware of her founding.


Poem of the week Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory Poetry The Guardian

Augusta Gregory is known as a nationalist but she was also a social reformer insipred by John Ruskin Expand Lady Gregory in 1911: her good friend George Bernard Shaw once called her "the.


An Irish woman of substance Not all who wander are lost

was shutting the door after the house was robbed. My heart is as black as the blackness of the sloe, or as the black. coal that is on the smith's forge; or as the sole of a shoe left in. white halls; it was you put that darkness over my life. You have taken the east from me; you have taken the west from me;


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Lady Augusta Gregory in 1911 Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poetry Poem of the week: Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory The translation from the Gaelic leaves much of the original's grammatical.


Augusta, Lady Gregory Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Lady Augusta Gregory Lady Gregory, an Irish writer and playwright played a large role in the Irish Literary Renaissance through her translation of Irish legends and her peasant comedies. Lady Gregory's literary career began later in life after the death of her husband, contributing to the Irish Literary theatre (1892) and directing for the.


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Strong women are central in Gregory's plays. Grania contains some of her most lyrical language, ending with a woman who crowns herself. In The Golden Apple, a beautiful witch is considered ugly.


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Lady Augusta Isabella Gregory was the grand dame of Irish Theatre. Today, she is remembered as co-founder of The Abbey Theatre in Dublin and for turning her Galway home, Coole Park, into the mecca of the Irish Literary Revival. Here she nurtured many of the great writers of the Irish Renaissance including WB Yeats, Sean O'Casey, and JM Synge.


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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 Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.


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Lady Gregory was born in 1852 as Augusta Persse at Roxborough, a rural estate in Co. Galway, Ireland. Neither her father, known as a harsh landlord, nor her mother, a proselytizing evangelical protestant, was liked by their tenantry, and Lady Gregory would later characterize Roxborough as an insular and almost feudal place to have grown up.


The History Press The Celtic Literary Revival in Co. Galway

MARCH 6, 2020— Augusta Gregory, the woman who helped shape modern Irish literature in the early 20th century, is the focus of a new exhibition opening at The New York Public Library.


1852 Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory (née Persse), playwright, folklorist and cofounder of the

RTÉ Culture presents a series of five early short stories written by Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) - these tales, Lady Gregory's only known efforts at short fiction, offer a remarkable insight.


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Lady Gregory was born Augusta Persse at her family's Co. Galway Big House, Roxborough, in 1852. In 1880, she married Sir William Gregory of Coole Park outside Gort, Co. Galway; he was (like her own family) Unionist in politics, and his record during the Famine was rather disturbing.