Lady Gregory

Isabella Augusta Persse was born in 1852 at Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland, the youngest daughter of an Anglo-Irish landowning family, and was educated at home. In 1880 she married Sir William Gregory, a former governor of Ceylon, who owned the estate of Coole Park, near Gort, and she became Lady Gregory. They traveled widely, and after his death in 1892 she began to collect folklore from the people living around Coole and to learn the Irish language. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn she founded the Irish Literary Theatre in 1899 and later the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, which she helped run for many years. She wrote many plays for it, including the comedy Spreading the News (1904), performed on the theatre's opening night, and she worked with Yeats on Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902). Her retellings of Irish myths, Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) and Gods and Fighting Men (1904), made the old stories available to English readers. Coole Park became a meeting place for writers of the Irish Literary Revival. She died there in 1932.

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