Gregory pictured on the frontispiece to "Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography" (1913)
Born
Isabella Augusta Persse
(1852-03-15)15 March 1852
Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland
Died
22 May 1932(1932-05-22) (aged 80)
Galway, County Galway, Ireland
Resting place
New Cemetery, Bohermore, County Galway
Occupations
Dramatist
folklorist
theatre manager
Years active
1882–1932
Known for
Co-founder of the Abbey Theatre
collection of folklore
playwright
Notable work
Irish Literary Revival
Spouse
Sir William Henry Gregory
(m. 1880; died 1892)
Children
Robert
Relatives
Sir Hugh Lane (nephew)
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. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings of stories taken from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, she turned against it. Her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced by her writings, was emblematic of many of the political struggles to occur in Ireland during her lifetime.
Lady Gregory is mainly remembered for her work behind the Irish Literary Revival. Her home at Coole Park in County Galway served as an important meeting place for leading Revival figures, and her early work as a member of the board of the Abbey was at least as important as her creative writings for that theatre's development. Lady Gregory's motto was taken from Aristotle: "To think like a wise man, but to express oneself like the common people."[2]
^"Augusta, Lady Gregory". Encyclopædia Britannica. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
Isabella Augusta, LadyGregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler...
for many of leading Irish playwrights, including William Butler Yeats, LadyGregory, Seán O'Casey and John Millington Synge, as well as leading actors. In...
MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 3 LadyGregory, "Gods and Fighting Men," Part I, Book IV at sacred-texts.com...
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...
run at the Abbey Theatre, which he had co-founded with W. B. Yeats and LadyGregory. His other major works include In the Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders...
later parted ways with Yeats and Gregory, something he later regretted, but remained on warm terms with LadyGregory till the end of his life. Martyn...
Love Songs of Connacht, which inspired Yeats, John Millington Synge and LadyGregory. Thomas A. Finlay founded the New Ireland Review, a literary magazine...
been made familiar through retellings of Irish mythology, notably by LadyGregory, but also others where we learn that Cian mounts on a quest to recover...
of the Celtic People Elathan - LadyGregory: Gods and Fighting Men Elathan is used incorrectly by Squire and LadyGregory, as Elathan is the genitive case...
printed by O'Donovan is as follows; the tale has also been retold by LadyGregory, and her emendations will be noted below as well. In a place called Druim...
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...
1880, Robert's great-grandson, William Henry Gregory married Isabella Augusta Persse, who became LadyGregory. The death in World War I of their only child...
silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. The Augusta, LadyGregory play called The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children is a fable...
Irish Literary Revival. Irish writers including William Butler Yeats, LadyGregory, "Æ" Russell, Edward Martyn, Alice Milligan and Edward Plunkett (Lord...
nearby Coole Estate, home of Lady Augusta Gregory, Yeats’ lifelong friend. On the estate, Coole House, where LadyGregory lived, was the centre for meetings...
longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara. He worked with W. B. Yeats and LadyGregory supporting the Abbey Theatre and some fellow writers. He was a chess...
taken as a version of the birth of Lugh, and was adapted as such by LadyGregory. In this tale, Balor hears a druid's prophecy that he will be killed...
W. B. Yeats, LadyGregory and Edward Martyn published a "Manifesto for Irish Literary Theatre" in 1897, in which they proclaimed their intention of establishing...
dancing," and an evil group allied with the devil. Another collector, LadyGregory, gave a similar summary that there was a tall, playful race of sidhe...
The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory is a Catholic church on Warwick Street, Westminster. It is the oldest Catholic church in England...
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