One of Ireland’s most famed dramatists, who co-founded the Abbey Theatre, is set to be immortalised with a statue on the site of her former home. A sculpture of Lady Gregory, born Isabella ...

The voluminous journals of the playwright, folklorist and patron of the arts, Lady Augusta Gregory, contain a wealth of detail on her relationship with the poet, WB Yeats. Their deep friendship ...

Standing in front of the audience, a rotund and determined Lady Augusta Gregory urged the actors to “Keep playing.” The founder of the Abbey Theater and patron of W.B. Yeats clinched victory ...

Lady Augusta Gregory is a figure whose influence on Irish theatre, writing and the arts in general looms large, but as is frequently the case her huge contribution, has all too often been ...

RTÉ Culture presents a series of five early short stories written by Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) - these tales, Lady Gregory's only known efforts at short fiction, offer a remarkable insight ...

It was preceded by On Baile’s Strand by William Butler Yeats and by Cathleen Ni Houlihan, by Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory – both Abbey Theatre co-founders. “Having got a liberal instalment ...

Although the play was not credited to her during her lifetime, Cathleen ní Houlihan was co-written with Lady Augusta Gregory, a playwright, folklorist, and co-founder of Dublin's Abbey Theatre.

In 1912, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish dramatist and folklorist Lady Augusta Gregory, together with the poet WB Yeats, established the Abbey as Ireland’s national theatre. But it has taken more ...

A sculpture of Lady Gregory, born Isabella Augusta Persse in 1852, will be erected at Coole Park, Co Galway. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), which now owns the site that had ...