Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932)
Irish playwright and folklorist
Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory was the widow of Sir William Gregory of Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway. She was a leading light in the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th/early 20th Centuries. WB Yeats' poem, "The Wild Swans at Coole" was written after one of his frequent visits to her home. He had a home nearby for some years, the Norman tower of Thoorballylee. She was a close friend and confidant of Yeats.
A playwright and folklorist, Augusta Gregory along with Yeats, Edward Martyn and others was a co-founder of what would become Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre.
As her entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography records, "Although her literary idiom has become outmoded, she retains greatness as the foremost enabler of the Irish literary revival, its indispensable (though selective) chronicler, and a witness to aristocratic decline."
Irish playwright and folklorist
Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory was the widow of Sir William Gregory of Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway. She was a leading light in the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th/early 20th Centuries. WB Yeats' poem, "The Wild Swans at Coole" was written after one of his frequent visits to her home. He had a home nearby for some years, the Norman tower of Thoorballylee. She was a close friend and confidant of Yeats.
A playwright and folklorist, Augusta Gregory along with Yeats, Edward Martyn and others was a co-founder of what would become Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre.
As her entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography records, "Although her literary idiom has become outmoded, she retains greatness as the foremost enabler of the Irish literary revival, its indispensable (though selective) chronicler, and a witness to aristocratic decline."
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932)
Irish playwright and folklorist
Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory was the widow of Sir William Gregory of Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway. She was a leading light in the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th/early 20th Centuries. WB Yeats' poem, "The Wild Swans at Coole" was written after one of his frequent visits to her home. He had a home nearby for some years, the Norman tower of Thoorballylee. She was a close friend and confidant of Yeats.
A playwright and folklorist, Augusta Gregory along with Yeats, Edward Martyn and others was a co-founder of what would become Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre.
As her entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography records, "Although her literary idiom has become outmoded, she retains greatness as the foremost enabler of the Irish literary revival, its indispensable (though selective) chronicler, and a witness to aristocratic decline."
Irish playwright and folklorist
Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory was the widow of Sir William Gregory of Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway. She was a leading light in the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th/early 20th Centuries. WB Yeats' poem, "The Wild Swans at Coole" was written after one of his frequent visits to her home. He had a home nearby for some years, the Norman tower of Thoorballylee. She was a close friend and confidant of Yeats.
A playwright and folklorist, Augusta Gregory along with Yeats, Edward Martyn and others was a co-founder of what would become Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre.
As her entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography records, "Although her literary idiom has become outmoded, she retains greatness as the foremost enabler of the Irish literary revival, its indispensable (though selective) chronicler, and a witness to aristocratic decline."
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