Lady Gregory

Isabella Augusta Gregory

Lady Gregory tells about Ireland's gods and her fighting men from the old Irish sagas.

The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland

Gods and Fighting Men

Traditional legends collected by Lady Gregory, a friend of Yeats at the turn of the century.

Irish Legends for Children

Contians all those plays that deal with the magic of Irish folk stories or the supernatural aspects of ghosts or religion. The plays included are The Dragon, The Story Brought by Brigit, Shanwalla, Colman and Guaire, The Travelling Man, The Full Moon, Aristotle's Bellows, and Dave.

The wonder and supernatural plays. 3

The Collected Plays

These diaries, covering the decade or so following the death of her husband in 1892 until they peter out in 1902, chart the course of Lady Gregory's gradual but remarkable remaking of her life. Widowed at thirty-nine, with a London social circle composed mainly of her husband's friends, broadly Unionist in her political views, and with only a few minor publications to her name, she was by her fiftieth year an influential Nationalist, close friend of the major figures of the Irish literary movement, widely acknowledged as the hostess of a `workshop of genius' at Coole Park, and on the threshold of lasting literary prominence in her own right. The rich account these pages give of Lady Gregory's life in the 1890s and of her deepening friendship with and patronage of W.B.Yeats radically changes the existing image of her evolution as an Irish writer and Nationalist. As the only contemporary diary kept by a major figure in the Irish literary movement during these years, their day-to-day record of the summer visits of Synge, George Moore, AE, Hyde and others to Coole, of the early years of the Irish Literary Theatre, and of the swiftly changing allegiances and tensions in her extensive literary circle, provides a revealing and frequently corrective counterweight to the narratives of these years written long afterwards (in the light of later autobiographical imperatives) by Yeats, Moore, Lady Gregory herself and others.

Lady Gregory's Diaries, 1892-1902

Reproduction of the original: Gods and Fighting Men by Isabella Augusta Gregory

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