#LadyGregory was an #AngloIrish #dramatist and #folklorist. This 1976 #autobiography tells about her life. www.daveshootsbookseller.com/product/1517... #Booksky #WomensHistoryMonth #Irish #drama
"She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself."
☘️🎭 Augusta, #LadyGregory, Irish playwright, poet and patron of #Yeats, was #BOTD 15 March 1852. #Poetry #Theatre
📚 We’ve catalogued a copy of the 1st US edition of The Image and Other Plays by Lady Gregory. Copy is inscribed by #LadyGregory to New York lawyer & arts patron John Quinn, a supporter of figures like #JMSynge, #WBYeats & #JamesJoyce. It also bears Quinn’s striking bookplate designed by #JackYeats.
Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory #100headschallenge #20 #ladygregory #playwright #writer #theatre #irish
Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 25
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #December25 #DorothyWordsworth #JupiterHammon #ClydeFitch #WBYeats #LadyGregory #EdwardKnoblock #SamsonRaphaelson #booksky
Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 25
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #December25 #DorothyWordsworth #JupiterHammon #ClydeFitch #WBYeats #LadyGregory #EdwardKnoblock #SamsonRaphaelson #booksky
This 1941 #ModernLibrary #book contains five #Irish #plays by #JohnMSynge, #SeanOCasey, #LadyGregory, and #PaulVincentCarroll. $15. #Booksky #drama #IrishLit
“She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.” (Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland)
☘️✒️ Augusta, #LadyGregory, Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, patron of #WBYeats and co-founder of the #AbbeyTheatre, #DOTD 22 May 1932. #Theatre
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In our latest post in the Treasures of the O'Gorman Special Collection blog series, we highlight a variety of rare volumes and interesting items found within the collection. To read more, please visit:
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#ladygregory
#AliceInWonderland
#charlesdickens
#j.m.synge
#seamusheaney
#JohnButlerYeats (1839-1922)
Portrait of Augusta, #LadyGregory (1852-1932), who was #bornonthisday
1903
National Gallery of Ireland
#IrishLiteraryRevival
"She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself."
☘️🎭 Augusta, #LadyGregory, Irish author, playwright, poet, and patron of #Yeats, was #BOTD 15 March 1852. #Poetry #Theatre
Good morning #bookaky 🌞
Do you know of any literary event that happened on March 14?
🔴 1889 #auguststrindberg 's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen
🔴 1903 #wbyeats & #ladygregory 's "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin
#todayinhistory
#march14
#ODT
🔴 1907 #ladygregory 's "Rising of the Moon" premieres in Dublin
🔴 1922 #eugeneonill 's "Hairy Ape" premieres in NYC
🔴 1923 #elmerrice 's play "Adding Machine" premieres in NYC
#todayinhistory
#march9
#booksky
#ODT
My kitty Lugh reminds us that afternoon naps are glorious
How are you spending your Friday afternoon?
#druidsky #comingoflugh #ladygregory #druid #pagansky #catsky #familiar #russianblue
A head and shoulders shot of Lady Gregory.
The Abbey Theatre opened on 27th December 1904 with productions of Yeats' “On Baile’s Strand” and “Cathleen ni Houlihan”, as well as Lady Gregory’s “Spreading the News”.
#OnThisDay #Ireland #IrishHistory #Theatre #AbbeyTheatre #Dublin #WBYeats #LadyGregory
You can’t go wrong with a little Irish Mythology! #ladygregory #bookaday