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Lady Gregory


Born
in Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland
March 15, 1852

Died
May 22, 1932


Irish playwright Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory wrote a number of short plays, including Spreading the News (1904) for the Abbey theater, which she founded and directed from 1904 to 1928.

This Irish dramatist and folklorist with William Butler Yeats and other persons co-founded the Irish literary theatre and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books retelling stories taken from Irish mythology.
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A Treasury of Irish Myth, L...
4.17 avg rating — 1,441 ratings — published 1899 — 7 editions
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Gods and Fighting Men: The ...
4.04 avg rating — 668 ratings — published 1902 — 143 editions
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Cuchulain of Muirthemne: Th...
3.99 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 1902 — 5 editions
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The Rising of the Moon
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3.34 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 1907 — 7 editions
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Irish Myths and Legends
3.77 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 1904 — 9 editions
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Complete Irish Mythology
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Spreading the News
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3.42 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1997 — 20 editions
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Visions and Beliefs in the ...
3.97 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1920 — 61 editions
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Grania: An Irish Tragedy
3.46 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Seven Short Plays By Lady G...
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“If the past year were offered me again,
And choice of good and ill before me set
Would I accept the pleasure with the pain
Or dare to wish that we had never met?”
― Augusta Gregory
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“She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.”
― Lady Gregory, Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
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“And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.”
― Augusta Gregory, Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland
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