Lady gregory biography
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BiographiesLady Augusta Gregory
(Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory, née Persse )
Born 14/15 March , County Galway, Ireland
Died 22 May , Coole Park, Ireland
Irish folklorist, author, playwright, cofounder of the Abbey Theatre
birthday 15 March
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We believe we have elevated the dignity of Ireland. We have shown the world, who knew it not, that the old culture of Ireland had not died, but was still with us.
Lady Augusta Gregory,
Not so long ago in Ireland, Irish culture – including the Irish (Gaelic) language – was scorned by the Anglo-Irish ruling class, known as the Ascendancy. The prevailing attitude was that Irish should be spoken only bygd “peasants,” or country people. Interest in Ireland’s ancient traditions of myths and sagas was strongly disparaged by professors at Dublin’s Trinity College. But all this began to change toward the end of the n
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Lady Gregory
Irish playwright, poet and folklorist (–)
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Gregory pictured on the frontispiece to "Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography" () | |
| Born | Isabella Augusta Persse ()15 March Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland |
| Died | 22 May () (aged&#;80) Galway, County Galway, Ireland |
| Resting place | New Cemetery, Bohermore, County Galway |
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| Years&#;active | – |
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| Notable work | Irish Literary Revival |
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| Children | Robert |
| Relatives | Sir Hugh Lane (nephew) |
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née&#;Persse; 15 March – 22 May )[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 rul
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The Nationalist playwright
Born in Lady Augusta Gregory was the writer of some of the most important popular translations of Irish mythology, which were published in the early twentieth century.
She was a playwright and one of the key players in the Irish literary revival: an influential movement of writers in the late 19th and early 20th century that produced works that helped preserve and promote Irish culture and foster Irish nationalism.
Born in County Galway in she travelled extensively in her earlier years but was to spend much of her life enmeshed in the cultural life of Dublin.
Despite coming from an Anglo-Irish family she was a prominent Irish nationalist at a time when Ireland was ruled by England, and had a keen interest in the Irish language.
To this end Lady Gregory worked extremely closely with renowned nationalist author, poet and playwright W.B. Yeats and others to found an Irish Theatre company, and she was critical in getting the financial backing to