Augusta, Lady Gregory
Irish playwright, poet, folklorist (1852-1932)
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She was born into the Anglo-Irish gentry and married a title, then spent the second half of her life dismantling what her class stood for. Augusta Gregory turned a country estate into the engine room of Irish cultural nationalism, co-founding the Abbey Theatre and rewriting mythology for a people finding their voice.
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Isabella Augusta Persse married into the Anglo-Irish ascendancy in 1852, but by middle age had broken with her class's loyalties entirely. With Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, writing dozens of short works for both stages. Her estate at Coole Park in County Galway became the gathering place for the Irish Literary Revival's key figures, and her work as a board member proved as crucial to the Abbey's survival as anything she wrote for it. She retold Irish myths in a series of books, pulling old stories into plain language. As a solo playw…
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