Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory nee Persse Irish playwright and founder... News Photo Getty Images


Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory nee Persse Irish playwright and founder... News Photo Getty Images

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.


Augusta, Lady Gregory Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

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.


Lady Augusta Gregory One of Isabella’s Pen Pals

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.


The History Press The Celtic Literary Revival in Co. Galway

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.


Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory nee Persse Irish playwright and founder... News Photo Getty Images

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory ( née Persse; 15 March 1852 - 22 May 1932) [1] 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.


NPG 3950; Augusta, Lady Gregory Portrait National Portrait Gallery

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.


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.


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.


Lady Augusta Gregory Photograph by Granger Pixels

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 Gregory (18521932) Swan River Press

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.


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

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.


15 March 1852 Lady Gregory is born Susannah Fullerton

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

Lady Augusta Gregory Augusta Gregory Biographies Lady Augusta Gregory (Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory, née Persse ) Born 14/15 March 1852, County Galway, Ireland Died 22 May 1932, Coole Park, Ireland Irish folklorist, author, playwright, cofounder of the Abbey Theatre 170. birthday 15 March 2022 Biography • Literature & Sources Biography


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.


1932 Death of Augusta Persse, better known as Lady Augusta Gregory.

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.


An Irish woman of substance Not all who wander are lost

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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