{{Short description|Irish playwright, poet and folklorist (1852–1932)}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=August 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Lady Gregory | image = Lady gregory.jpg | alt = Head and shoulders profile of a dignified older woman with hair swept back and a slightly prominent nose. Underneath is the signature "Augusta Gregory". | caption = Gregory pictured on the {{wt|en|frontispiece|italic=-}} to "Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography" (1913) | birth_name = Isabella Augusta Persse | birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|03|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1932|05|22|1852|03|5|df=yes}} | death_place = Galway, County Galway, Ireland | resting_place = New Cemetery, Bohermore, County Galway | occupation = {{hlist|Dramatist|folklorist|theatre manager}} | spouse = {{marriage|Sir William Henry Gregory|1880|1892|end=d}} | children = Robert | relatives = Sir Hugh Lane (nephew) | years_active = 1882–1932 | known_for = {{hlist|Co-founder of the Abbey Theatre|collection of folklore|playwright}} | notable_works = Irish Literary Revival }} '''Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory''' ({{née|'''Persse'''}}; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932)<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Augusta, Lady Gregory |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Augusta-Lady-Gregory |access-date=13 March 2018 |date=8 March 2018}}</ref> 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 that occurred 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."{{sfn|Yeats|2002|p=391}}
As a solo playwright, Lady Gregory is known for ''Spreading the News'' (1904), a short one-act comic play which she wrote for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre, and ''Grania'' (1912). She is also known for her collaboration with W.B. Yeats on the play ''Cathleen ni Houlihan'' (1902).
==Life and career== ===Early years and marriage=== Gregory was born at Roxborough, County Galway, the youngest daughter of the Anglo-Irish gentry family Persse. Her mother, Frances Barry, was related to Viscount Guillamore, and her family home, Roxborough, was a 6,000-acre (24 km<sup>2</sup>) estate located between Gort and Loughrea, the main house of which was later burnt down during the Irish Civil War.{{sfn|Foster|2003|p=484}} She was educated at home, and her future career was strongly influenced by the family nurse (i.e. nanny), Mary Sheridan, a Catholic and a native Irish speaker, who introduced the young Augusta to the history and legends of the local area.{{sfn|Shrank|Demastes|1997|p=108}}
She married Sir William Henry Gregory, a widower with an estate at Coole Park, near Gort, on 4 March 1880 in St. Matthias' Church, Dublin.{{sfn|Coxhead|1961|p= 22}} Sir William, who was 36 years her elder, had just retired from his position as Governor of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), having previously served several terms as Member of Parliament for County Galway. He was a well-educated man with many literary and artistic interests, and the house at Coole Park housed a large library and extensive art collection, both of which Lady Gregory was eager to explore. He also had a house in London, where the couple spent a considerable amount of time, holding weekly salons frequented by many leading literary and artistic figures of the day, including Robert Browning, Lord Tennyson, John Everett Millais and Henry James. Their only child, Robert Gregory, was born in 1881. He was killed during the First World War while serving as a pilot, an event which inspired W. B. Yeats's poems "''An Irish Airman Foresees His Death''", "''In Memory of Major Robert Gregory''" and "''Shepherd and Goatherd''".<ref>[http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/20century/topic_1_05/wbyeats_irish.htm "Representing the Great War: Texts and Contexts"], The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edition, accessed 5 October 2007.</ref>{{sfn|Kermode|1957|p=31}}
===Early writings=== left|thumb|Portrait of Lady Gregory, 1903 The Gregorys travelled in Ceylon, India, Spain, Italy and Egypt. While in Egypt Lady Gregory met, and in 1882 and 1883 had an affair with, the English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, during which she wrote a series of love poems, ''A Woman's Sonnets''.{{sfn|Hennessy|2005}}{{sfn|Holmes|2005|p=103}}
Her earliest work to appear under her own name was ''Arabi and His Household'' (1882), a pamphlet—originally a letter to ''The Times''—in support of Ahmed Orabi Pasha, leader of what has come to be known as the Urabi Revolt, an 1879 Egyptian nationalist revolt against the oppressive regime of the Khedive and the European domination of Egypt. She later said of this booklet, "whatever political indignation or energy was born with me may have run its course in that Egyptian year and worn itself out".{{sfn|Gregory|1974|p=54}} Despite this, in 1893 she published ''A Phantom's Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin'', an anti-Nationalist pamphlet against William Ewart Gladstone's proposed second Home Rule Act.{{sfn|Kirkpatrick|2000|p=109}} The unsigned pamphlet features Egyptian gods sitting in judgment upon Gladstone, and his phantom being shown the results of high taxes and the English government. As James Pethica writes, "With its uncompromising portrayal of a country sliding into anarchy and ruin, the anonymous pamphlet drew appreciative comment from those of Gregory's London friends who knew it to be her work. 'It has been a success,' she noted in her diary[.]"<ref>[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/lady-gregorys-early-irish-writings-1883-1893-9780197500569?cc=us&lang=en& Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1882-1893], ed. James Pethica (Oxford, 2018) 81-82.</ref>
She continued to write prose during the period of her marriage, including short stories she published under the name "Angus Grey."<ref>Pethica, ed., Early Irish Writings 185-213.</ref> During the winter of 1883, whilst her husband was in Ceylon, she worked on a series of memoirs of her childhood home, with a view to publishing them under the title ''An Emigrant's Notebook'',{{sfn|Garrigan Mattar|2004|p=187}} but this plan was abandoned. "An Emigrant's Note Book" remained unpublished until it appeared in Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1883-1893 (2018).<ref>Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1883-1893, ed. James Pethica (Oxford 2018).</ref> She wrote a series of pamphlets in 1887 called ''Over the River'', in which she appealed for funds for the parish of St. Stephens in Southwark, south London.{{sfn|Yeats|2005|loc= p. 165, fn 2}} She also wrote a number of short stories in the years 1890 and 1891, although these also never appeared in print. A number of unpublished poems from this period have also survived. When Sir William Gregory died in March 1892, Lady Gregory went into mourning and returned to Coole Park; there she edited her husband's autobiography, which she published in 1894.{{sfn|Gonzalez|1997|p=98}} She was to write later, "If I had not married I should not have learned the quick enrichment of sentences that one gets in conversation; had I not been widowed I should not have found the detachment of mind, the leisure for observation necessary to give insight into character, to express and interpret it. Loneliness made me rich—'full', as Bacon says."{{sfn|Owens|Radner| 1990|p=12}}
===Cultural nationalism=== A trip to Inisheer in the Aran Islands in 1893 re-awoke for Lady Gregory an interest in the Irish language<ref name="IWO">[https://web.archive.org/web/20041119094612/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ladygregory.html Lady Gregory]". Irish Writers Online, accessed 23 September 2007.</ref> and in the folklore of the area in which she lived. She organised Irish lessons at the school at Coole and began collecting tales from the area around her home, especially from the residents of Gort workhouse. One of the tutors she employed was Norma Borthwick, who would visit Coole numerous times.<ref name=Rouse>{{cite book|last1=Rouse|first1=Paul|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|chapter=Borthwick, Mariella Norma}}</ref> This activity led to the publication of a number of volumes of folk material, including ''A Book of Saints and Wonders'' (1906), ''The Kiltartan History Book'' (1909) and ''The Kiltartan Wonder Book'' (1910). She also produced a number of collections of "Kiltartanese" versions of Irish myths, including ''Cuchulain of Muirthemne'' (1902) and ''Gods and Fighting Men'' (1903). ("Kiltartanese" is Lady Gregory's term for English with Gaelic syntax, based on the dialect spoken in Kiltartan.) In his introduction to ''Cuchulain of Muirthemne'' Yeats wrote "I think this book is the best that has come out of Ireland in my time".<ref>{{citation| last = Love | first = Damian | title = Sailing to Ithaca: Remaking Yeats in Ulysses| journal = The Cambridge Quarterly | volume =36 | number = 1 | year = 2007 | pages = 1–10| doi = 10.1093/camqtly/bfl029 | s2cid = 161474851 }}</ref> James Joyce was to parody this claim in the Scylla and Charybdis chapter of his novel ''Ulysses''.{{sfn|Emerson Rogers|1948|pages=306–327}}<!--Can't find a ref for this: Flann O'Brien would also parody the book in his ''At Swim-Two-Birds'' with his overly literal versions of the myths of the Fenian cycle.-->
Towards the end of 1894, encouraged by the positive reception of the editing of her husband's autobiography, Lady Gregory turned her attention to another editorial project. She decided to prepare selections from Sir William Gregory's grandfather's correspondence for publication as ''Mr Gregory's Letter-Box 1813–30'' (1898). This entailed her researching Irish history of the period; one outcome of this work was a shift in her political position, from the "soft" Unionism of her earlier writing on Home Rule to a definite support of Irish nationalism and Republicanism, and to what she was later to describe as "a dislike and distrust of England".{{sfn|Komesu|Sekine|1990|p=102}}
===Founding of the Abbey=== right|upright|thumb|alt=THE NATIONAL THEATRE SOCIETY / SPREADING THE NEWS / ON BAILE'S STRAND / KATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN / ON THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN / ABBEY THEATRE / TUESDAY, 27 Dec, '04 / TUESDAY, 3 Jan, '05|A poster for the opening run at the Abbey Theatre from 27 December 1904 to 3 January 1905
Edward Martyn was a neighbour of Lady Gregory, and it was during a visit to his home, Tullira Castle, in 1896 that she first met W. B. Yeats.<ref>{{citation| last = Graham |first = Rigby | title = Letter from Dublin | journal = American Notes & Queries | volume = 10 | year = 1972}}</ref> Discussions between the three of them, over the following year or so, led to the founding of the Irish Literary Theatre in 1899.{{sfn|Foster|2003|pp= 486, 662}} Lady Gregory undertook fundraising, and the first programme consisted of Martyn's ''The Heather Field'' and Yeats's ''The Countess Cathleen''.
The Irish Literary Theatre project lasted until 1901,{{sfn|Kavanagh|1950}} when it collapsed owing to lack of funding. In 1904, Lady Gregory, Martyn, Yeats, John Millington Synge, Æ, Annie Horniman and William and Frank Fay came together to form the Irish National Theatre Society. The first performances staged by the society took place in a building called the Molesworth Hall. When the Hibernian Theatre of Varieties in Lower Abbey Street and an adjacent building in Marlborough Street became available, Horniman and William Fay agreed to their purchase and refitting to meet the needs of the society.{{sfn|McCormack|1999|pp=5–6}}
On 11 May 1904, the society formally accepted Horniman's offer of the use of the building. As Horniman was not normally resident in Ireland, the Royal Letters Patent required were paid for by her but granted in the name of Lady Gregory.{{sfn|Yeats|2005|p=902}} One of her own plays, ''Spreading the News'', was performed on the opening night, 27 December 1904.{{sfn|Murray|2008 }} At the opening of Synge's ''The Playboy of the Western World'' in January 1907, a significant portion of the crowd rioted, causing the remainder of the performances to be acted out in dumbshow.{{sfn|Ellis|2003}} Lady Gregory did not think as highly of the play as Yeats did, but she defended Synge as a matter of principle. Her view of the affair is summed up in a letter to Yeats where she wrote of the riots: "It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't."{{sfn|Frazier|2002}}
===Later career=== left|thumbnail|upright|alt=Print of a woman and a dog on a leash. Underneath is "The WHITE COCKADE. A Comedy in Three Acts, by Lady Gregory, being Volume VIII. of the Abbey Theatre Series."|The cover of Lady Gregory's 1905 play
After the killing of Eileen Quinn by the Black and Tans in 1920, Gregory wrote six articles for ''The Nation'' to alert the British public to atrocities being committed in Ireland.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-06 |title=Britain’s terrible history in Ireland highlighted in new radio documentary |url=https://www.irishcentral.com/news/reprisals-black-and-tan-murder |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=IrishCentral.com |language=en}}</ref> In July 1925, ''The Travelling Man'' by Lady Gregory was broadcast by the nascent British Broadcasting Company's 2LO (London) station.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lawson |first1=Mark |author-link1=Mark Lawson |title=100 years of the BBC – the first live FA Cup final and the dawn of true crime |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/26/100-years-of-the-bbc-the-1920s-the-first-live-fa-cup-final-and-the-dawn-of-true-crime |access-date=27 September 2022 |work=the Guardian |date=26 September 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The Travelling Man|journal=The Radio Times |date=10 July 1925 |issue=94 |page=104}}</ref>
She remained an active director of the theatre until ill-health led to her retirement in 1928. During this time she wrote more than 19 plays, mainly for production at the Abbey.<ref name="IWO" /> Many of these were written in an attempted transliteration of the Hiberno-English dialect spoken around Coole Park that became widely known as Kiltartanese, from the nearby village of Kiltartan. Her plays had been among the most successful at the Abbey in the earlier years,{{sfn|Pethica|2004}} but their popularity declined. Indeed, the Irish writer Oliver St. John Gogarty once wrote "the perpetual presentation of her plays nearly ruined the Abbey".<ref>[http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/index.htm Augusta Gregory]. Ricorso</ref> In addition to her plays, she wrote a two-volume study of the folklore of her native area called ''Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland'' in 1920. She also played the lead role in three performances of ''Cathleen Ni Houlihan'' in 1919.
During her time on the board of the Abbey, Coole Park remained her home; she spent her time in Dublin staying in a number of hotels. For example, at the time of the 1911 national census, she was staying in a hotel at 16 South Frederick Street.<ref>[http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000209724/ 1911 Census Form]</ref> In these she dined frugally, often on food she had brought with her from home. She frequently used her hotel rooms to interview would-be Abbey dramatists and to entertain the company after opening nights of new plays. She spent many of her days working on her translations in the National Library of Ireland. She gained a reputation as being a somewhat conservative figure.{{sfn|DiBattista|McDiarmid|1996|p=216}} For example, when Denis Johnston submitted to the Abbey his first play, ''Shadowdance'', it was rejected by Lady Gregory and returned to the author with "The Old Lady says No" written on the title page.{{sfn|Dick|Ellmann|Kiberd|1992|p=183}} Johnston decided to rename the play, and ''The Old Lady Says 'No!' '' was eventually staged by the Gate Theatre in 1928.
===Retirement and death=== upright|thumb|alt=Half length portrait of a serious elderly woman in a black Victorian dress, standing with hands clasped at her waist|Lady Gregory in later life When she retired from the Abbey board, Lady Gregory returned to live in Galway, although she continued to visit Dublin regularly. The house and demesne at Coole Park had been sold to the Irish Forestry Commission in 1927, with Lady Gregory retaining life tenancy.{{sfn|Genet|1991|p=271}} Her Galway home had long been a focal point for the writers associated with the Irish Literary Revival, and this continued after her retirement. On a tree in what were the grounds of the house, one can still see the carved initials of Synge, Æ, Yeats and his artist brother Jack, George Moore, Seán O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Katharine Tynan and Violet Martin. Yeats wrote five poems about, or set in, the house and grounds: "The Wild Swans at Coole", "I walked among the seven woods of Coole", "In the Seven Woods", "Coole Park, 1929" and "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931".
In 1932, Lady Gregory, whom Shaw once described as "the greatest living Irishwoman",{{sfn|Goldsmith|1854|p=178}} died at home aged 80 from breast cancer,{{sfn|Gonzalez|1997|p=98}} and is buried in Bohermore Cemetery, Galway. The entire contents of Coole Park were auctioned three months after her death, and the house was demolished in 1941.<ref>[http://coolepark.ie/briefhistory/index.html "Brief History of Coole Park"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130415065320/http://www.coolepark.ie/briefhistory/index.html |date=15 April 2013 }}, The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, accessed 6 April 2013.</ref>
==Legacy== Her plays fell out of favour after her death, and are now rarely performed.{{sfn|Gordon|1970|p=28}} Many of the diaries and journals she kept for most of her adult life have been published, providing a rich source of information on Irish literary history during the first three decades of the 20th century.{{sfn|Pethica|1995}}
Her ''Cuchulain of Muirthemne'' is still considered a good retelling of the Ulster Cycle tales such as Deidre, Cuchulainn, and the Táin Bó Cúailnge stories. Thomas Kinsella wrote "I emerged with the conviction that Lady Gregory's ''Cuchul-ian of Muirthemne'', though only a paraphrase, gave the best idea of the Ulster stories".<ref>{{citation| first = Thomas| last = Kinsella| title = The Tain| at = Translator's Note and Acknowledgements, p.vii | orig-year =1969|year = 2002 }}</ref> However her version omitted some elements of the tale, usually assumed to avoid offending Victorian sensibilities, as well being an attempt as presenting a "respectable" nation myth for the Irish, though her paraphrase is not considered dishonest.<ref>{{citation|title = Lady Gregory's Deirdre: Self-Censorship or Skilled Editing? | first = Karen B. | last = Golightly | journal = New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua | volume = 11 | number = 1 | date = Spring 2007 | pages = 117–126 | jstor = 20558141 }}</ref> Other critics find the bowdlerisations in her works more offensive, not only the removal of references to sex and bodily functions, but also the loss of Cuchulain's "battle frenzy" (''Ríastrad''); in other areas she censored less than some of her male contemporaries, such as Standish O'Grady.<ref>{{citation| first =Patrick | last =Maume | title = Gregory, (Isabella) Augusta Lady Gregory Persse| work =Dictionary of Irish Biography | editor-first = James|editor-last= McGuire| editor-first2 = James |editor-last2 = Quinn| publisher = Cambridge University Press| year = 2009| url = http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a3622 }}</ref>
In 2019, the New York Public Library announced a major exhibition on Gregory and her work, "All This Mine Alone: Lady Gregory and the Irish Literary Revival," to be co-curated by James Pethica and Colm Toíbín. The exhibition opened in March 2020 but closed due to the global pandemic; an online version remains available.<ref>{{cite web | last=Saddlemyer | first= Ann | title=All This Mine Alone: Lady Gregory and the Irish Literary Revival | website=The New York Public Library | date=March 6, 2020 | url=https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/all-this-mine-alone | access-date=December 7, 2024}}</ref> In conjunction with the exhibition, The Irish Repertory Theatre of New York and the Druid Theatre of Galway offered a major revival of some of Gregory's plays.<ref>{{cite web | title=Lady G | website=Irish Repertory Theatre | date=March 13, 2020 | url=https://irishrep.org/show/2019-2020/lady-g/ | access-date=December 7, 2024}}</ref> In November 2020 it was announced that Trinity College Dublin, whose library's forty busts previously represented men only was commissioning four additional busts of women and that one of them would be a bust of Lady Gregory.<ref>{{cite web |title=Four new statues to end Trinity Long Room's 'men only' image |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/four-new-statues-to-end-trinity-long-room-s-men-only-image-1.4420412|website=www.irishtimes.com |access-date=27 November 2020}}</ref> In 2023 Gregory was the subject of a two-part RTÉ documentary starring Miriam Margolyes and Senator Lynn Ruane, and featuring commentary from Roy Foster, James Pethica, Judith A. Hill, Melissa Sihra, and other Gregory scholars.<ref name="y412">{{cite web | title=LADY GREGORY: IRELAND'S FIRST SOCIAL INFLUENCER | website=Sphere Abacus | url=https://www.sphere-abacus.com/programme/3944/lady-gregory-irelands-first-social-influencer | access-date=December 7, 2024}}</ref>
== Published works, collaborations and translations== {{Div col|small=yes}} <!-- Small = yes --> *''Arabi and His Household'' (1882)<ref>{{citation| first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Arabi and his household | year = 1882 }}</ref> *''Over the River'' (1888)<ref>*{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Over the River | year = 1888 }}</ref> *''A Phantom's Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin'' (1893)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = A Phantom's Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin | year = 1893 }}</ref> (anonymously) *''Sir William Gregory, K.C.M.G., Formerly Member of Parliament and Sometime Governor of *Ceylon: An Autobiography'' (editor 1894)<ref>{{citation | editor-first = Augusta | editor-last = Lady Gregory | editor-link = Augusta, Lady Gregory | title = Sir William Gregory, K.C.M.G., Formerly Member of Parliament and Sometime Governor of Ceylon: An Autobiography | url = https://archive.org/details/sirwilliamgregor00greg | year = 1894 | edition = 2nd }}</ref> *''Mr. Gregory's Letter Box 1813–1830'' (editor 1898)<ref>{{citation | editor-first = Augusta | editor-last = Lady Gregory | editor-link = Augusta, Lady Gregory | title = Mr. Gregory's Letter Box 1813–1830 | url = https://archive.org/details/mrgregoryslette00greggoog | year = 1898 }}</ref> *''Casadh an t-súgáin; or, The Twisting of the Rope'' (translator 1902)<ref>{{citation | first = Hyde | last = Douglas | author-link = Douglas Hyde |translator-first = Augusta |translator-last=Lady Gregory |translator-link=Augusta, Lady Gregory | title = Casadh an t-súgáin; or, The Twisting of the Rope | url = https://archive.org/details/casadhtsgino00hydeuoft | year = 1902 | publisher = Baile Átha Cliath An clo-cumann |language=Irish, en}}</ref> *''Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster'' (Irish folk tales 1902)<ref>{{citation | title = Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | orig-year = 1902 | year = 1903 | edition = 2nd | url = https://archive.org/details/cuchulainofmuirt00greg_0 }}</ref> *''Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory'' (1903)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory | url = https://archive.org/details/poetsdreamersstu00gregrich | year = 1903 | publisher = Dublin, Hodges, Figgis, and co. }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish'' by Lady Gregory|journal=The Athenaeum|issue=3943|date=23 May 1903|page=648|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oKA5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA648}}</ref> *''Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danann and of the Fianna of Ireland'' (1904)<ref>{{citation | title = Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danann and of the Fianna of Ireland | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | year = 1904 | url = https://archive.org/details/godsfightingmens00gregrich }}</ref> *''Kincora: A Drama in Three Acts ''(1905)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Kincora: A Drama in Three Acts | year = 1905 | url = https://archive.org/details/kincoradramainth00gregrich }}</ref> *''Spreading the News, The Rising of the Moon By Lady Gregory. The Poorhouse by Lady Gregory and Douglas Hyde'' (1906)<ref>{{citation | first1 = Augusta | last1 = Lady Gregory | last2 = Hyde | first2 = Douglas | author-link2 = Douglas Hyde | title = Spreading the News, The Rising of the Moon. By Lady Gregory. The Poorhouse. By Lady Gregory and Douglas Hyde | url = https://archive.org/details/spreadingnewsand00greguoft | year = 1906 | publisher = Dublin Maunsel }}</ref> *''The Hyacinth Galvey: A Comedy'' (1906)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Hyacinth Galvey: A Comedy | url = https://archive.org/details/hyacinthhalveyco00greg | year = 1906 | publisher = New York, J. Quinn }}</ref> *''A Book of Saints and Wonders, Put Down Here by Lady Gregory According to the Old Writings and the Memory of the People of Ireland ''(1907)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = A Book of Saints and Wonders, Put Down Here by Lady Gregory According to the Old Writings and the Memory of the People of Ireland | year = 1907 | url = https://archive.org/details/bookofsaintswond00gregrich }}</ref> *''Seven Short Plays: Spreading the News. Hyacinth Halvey. The Rising of the Moon. The Jackdaw. The Workhouse Ward. The Travelling Man. The Gaol Gate'' (1909)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Seven Short Plays: Spreading the News. Hyacinth Halvey. The Rising of the Moon. The Jackdaw. The Workhouse Ward. The Travelling Man. The Gaol Gate | year = 1909 | url = https://archive.org/details/sevenshortplays00gregrich}}</ref> *''The Kiltartan History Book'' (1909)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Kiltartan History Book |orig-year=1909 | url = https://archive.org/details/kiltartanhistory00greguoft |others=illustrated by Robert Gregory |edition=Second, enlarged |date=1926| publisher = Dublin Maunsel }}</ref> *''The Kiltartan Molière: The Miser. The Doctor in Spite of Himself. The Rogueries of Scapin.'' Translated by Lady Gregory (1910)<ref>{{citation |author=Molière |translator-first=Augusta |translator-last=Lady Gregory |translator-link=Augusta, Lady Gregory | title = The Kiltartan Molière: The Miser. The Doctor in Spite of Himself. The Rogueries of Scapin | url = https://archive.org/details/kiltartanmoliere00moli | year = 1910 }}</ref> *''Spreading the News'' (1911)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Spreading the News | year = 1911 | url = https://archive.org/details/spreadingthenews00gregiala }}</ref> *''The Kiltartan Wonder Book'' by Lady Gregory (1911)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Kiltartan Wonder Book by Lady Gregory | url = https://archive.org/details/kiltartanwonderb00gregrich | year = 1911 |others=illustrated by Margaret Gregory}}</ref> *''Irish Folk-History Plays, 1st series. The Tragedies: Grania – Kincora—Dervorgilla'' (1912)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Irish Folk-History Plays, 1st series. The Tragedies: Grania – Kincora – Dervorgilla | year = 1912 | url = https://archive.org/details/irishfolkhistory00greg}}</ref> *''Irish Folk-History Plays, 2nd series: The Tragic-Comedies: The Canavans – The White Cockade – The Deliverer'' (1912)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Irish Folk-History Plays, 2nd series: The Tragic-Comedies : The Canavans – The White Cockade – The Deliverer | year = 1912 | url = https://archive.org/details/irishfolkhistory02greg }}</ref> *''New Comedies: The Bogie Men; The Full Moon; Coats; Damer's Gold; McDonough's Wife'' (1913)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = New Comedies: The Bogie Men; The Full Moon; Coats; Damer's Gold; McDonough's Wife | year = 1913 | url = https://archive.org/details/newcomedies00gregrich }}</ref> *''Damer's Gold: A Comedy in Two Acts'' (1913)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Damer's Gold: A Comedy in Two Acts | year = 1913 | url = https://archive.org/details/damersgoldcomedy00greg}}</ref> *''Coats'' (1913)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Coats | year = 1913 | url = https://archive.org/details/coatsladygregory00greg}}</ref> *''Our Irish Theatre – A Chapter of Autobiography'' (1913)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Our Irish Theatre – A Chapter of Autobiography | year = 1913 | url = https://archive.org/details/ouririshtheatre01greggoog}}</ref> *''The Unicorn from the Stars: And Other Plays'', by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory (1915)<ref>{{citation | first1 = W.B. | last1 = Yeats | author-link = W. B. Yeats | first2 = Augusta | last2 = Lady Gregory | author-link2 = Augusta, Lady Gregory | title = The Unicorn from the Stars: And Other Plays | url = https://archive.org/details/unicornfromstars00yeatiala | year = 1915 }}</ref> *''Shanwalla'' (1915)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Shanwalla |year = 1915 | url = https://archive.org/details/shanwalla00gregiala }}</ref> *''The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children'' (1916)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Golden Apple: A Play for Kiltartan Children | year = 1916 | url = https://archive.org/details/goldenappleplay00greg}}</ref> *''The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish'' (1919)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish | year = 1919 | url = https://archive.org/details/kiltartanpoetryb00greg}}</ref> *''The Dragon: A Wonder Play in Three Acts'' (1920)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Dragon: A Wonder Play in Three Acts | year = 1920 | publisher = New York, G. P. Putnam | url = https://archive.org/details/dragonwonderplay01greg}}</ref> *''Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland Collected and Arranged by Lady Gregory: With Two Essays and Notes by W.B. Yeats'' (1920)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland Collected and Arranged by Lady Gregory: With Two Essays and Notes by W.B. Yeats | url = https://archive.org/details/visionsbeliefsin00gregrich | year =1920 }}</ref> *''Hugh Lane's Life and Achievement, with Some Account of the Dublin Galleries. With Illustrations'' (1921)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Hugh Lane's Life and Achievement, with Some Account of the Dublin Galleries. With Illustrations | url = https://archive.org/details/hughlaneslifeach00gregrich | year = 1921 }}</ref> *''The Image and Other Plays'' (''Hanranhan's Ghost''; ''Shanwalla''; ''The Wrens''(1922)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Image and Other Plays | year = 1922 | url = https://archive.org/details/imageandotherpla00greguoft}} (''Hanranhan's Ghost''; ''Shanwalla''; ''The Wrens'')</ref> *''Three Wonder Plays: The Dragon. Aristotle's Bellows. The Jester ''(1922)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Three Wonder Plays: The Dragon. Aristotle's Bellows. The Jester | year = 1922}}</ref> *''Plays in Prose and Verse: Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend'', by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory (1922)<ref>{{citation | first1 = W.B. | last1 = Yeats | author-link = W. B. Yeats | first2 = Augusta | last2 = Lady Gregory | author-link2 = Augusta, Lady Gregory | title = Plays in Prose and Verse: Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend | url = https://archive.org/details/playsinprosevers00yeatuoft | year = 1922 }}</ref> *''The Story Brought by Brigit'' (1924)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Story Brought by Brigit | year = 1924}}</ref> *''Mirandolina'' (1924)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Mirandolina | year = 1924 }}</ref> *''On the Racecourse'' (1926)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = On the Racecourse | year = 1926 }}</ref> *''Three Last Plays: Sancho's Master. Dave. The Would-Be Gentleman'' (1928)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Three Last Plays: Sancho's Master. Dave. The Would-Be Gentleman | year = 1928 }}</ref> *''My First Play (Colman and Guair)'' (1930)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = My First Play (Colman and Guaire) | year = 1930 }}</ref> *''Coole ''(1931)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Coole | year = 1931 }}</ref> *''Lady Gregory's Journals'' (1947)<ref>*{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Lady Gregory's Journals | year = 1947 |editor-first=Lennox |editor-last=Robinson}}</ref> *''Seventy Years, 1852-1922, Being the Autobiography of Lady Gregory'' (1974)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Seventy Years, 1852-1922, Being the Autobiography of Lady Gregory | year = 1974 |editor-first=Colin |editor-last=Smythe}}</ref> *''The Journals. Part 1. 10 October 1916 – 24 February 1925'' (1978)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Journals. Part 1. 10 October 1916 – 24 February 1925 | year = 1978 |editor-first=Daniel J. |editor-last=Murphy}}</ref> *''The Journals. Part 2. 21 February 1925 – 9 May 1932'' (1987)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = The Journals. Part 2. 21 February 1925 – 9 May 1932 | year = 1987 |editor-first=Daniel J. |editor-last=Murphy}}</ref> *''Lady Gregory's Diaries 1892-1902'' (1996)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Lady Gregory's Diaries 1892-1902 | year = 1996 |editor-first=James |editor-last=Pethica}}</ref> *''Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1883-1893'' (2018)<ref>{{citation | first = Augusta | last = Lady Gregory | title = Lady Gregory's Early Irish Writings 1883-1893 | year = 2018 |editor-first=James |editor-last=Pethica}}</ref> {{Div col end}}
==See also== * ''Cathleen ni Houlihan'' * List of Irish dramatists
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*{{citation | last = Kohfeldt | first = Mary Lou | title = Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance | publisher = André Deutsch | year = 1984 | isbn = 0-689-11486-9 | url = https://archive.org/details/ladygregory00mary }} *{{citation | last1 = Laurence | first1 = Dan H. | last2 = Grene | first2 = Nicholas | title = Shaw, Lady Gregory and the Abbey: A Correspondence and a Record | publisher = Colin Smythe | year = 1993 | isbn =0-86-140278-2 }} *{{citation | last1 = McDiarmid | first1 = Lucy | last2 = Waters | first2 = Maureen | title = Lady Gregory: Selected Writings | work = Penguin Twentieth Century Classics | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-14-018955-6 }} *{{citation | editor-last1 = Saddlemyer | editor-first1 = Ann | editor-last2 = Smythe | editor-first2 = Colin | title = Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After | publisher = Colin Smythe | year = 1987 | isbn = 0-86140-111-5 }} *{{citation | last = Napier | first = Taura | title = Seeking a Country: Literary Autobiographies of Irish Women". University Press of America, 2001; | isbn = 0-7618-1934-7 | date = February 2001 | publisher = University Press of America }} * {{citation | last = Smythe | first = Colin | title = A Guide to Coole Park, Co. Galway, Home of Lady Gregory | publisher = Colin Smythe | year = 2003 | isbn = 0-86140-382-7 }} *{{citation | url = http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ladygregory.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041119094612/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/ladygregory.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 19 November 2004 | title = Lady Gregory at Irish Writers Online | access-date = 4 November 2004 }} *{{citation | title = Irish Writers on Writing featuring Augusta, Lady Gregory | editor-last = Boland | editor-first = Eavan | editor-link = Eavan Boland | publisher = Trinity University Press | year = 2007 }} *{{citation | url = http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gregory/theatre/appendix-I.html | title = Plays Produced by the Abbey Theatre Co. and its Predecessors, with dates of First Performances | access-date = 4 November 2004 }} {{refend}}
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