Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland (Large Print Edition)

Gregory, Augusta

Religion & Spirituality

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Cuchulain of Muirthemne

History

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

Visions And Beliefs In The West Of Ireland

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Lady (Augusta) Gregory (1852-1932) was a dramatist and folklorist. Along with the poet W. B. Yeats she was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and co-founded the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Born Isabella Augusta Persse in County Galway, she belonged to the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, which was closely associated with colonial rule. She married Sir William Gregory in 1880. Her conversion to Irish cultural nationalism began after the death of her husband and was heavily influenced by her visit in 1892 to Inisheer, one of the Aran Islands, where she learnt Irish and the Hiberno-English dialect of Kiltartin. Poets and Dreamers was her first publication and contained translations of the Irish-language poet Anthony Raftery, folk-tales, and plays by the Gaelic scholar and future first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=gregau

Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster

Pinnacle Press

Poets and Dreamers (Studies and translations from the Irish)

Poetry

IndyPublish

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an 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, her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced by her writings, was emblematic of many of the political struggles to occur in Ireland during her lifetime. Lady Gregory is mainly remembered for her work behind the Irish Literary Revival. Her home at Coole Park, 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 for the theatre's development as her creative writings. Lady Gregory's motto was taken from Aristotle: "To think like a wise man, but to express oneself like the common people."

Poets and Dreamers: Stories Translated from the Irish

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"Gods and Fighting Men" is one of the most important works to have come out of Ireland in the opening years of the twentieth century. Not only for their influence on others, but because here, for the first time, readable versions of the Irish myths were made available to the general public. This classic will introduce generations of new readers to these great tales and the great heroes within.

Gods and Fighting Men

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Nonsuch Publishing

Lady Augusta Gregory’s Irish Myths and Legends, or Gods and Fighting Men as it was first titled in 1904, is an essential collection of Irish myths, legends and folk tales gathered by Gregory from Irish oral story tellers at the close of the nineteenth century.\nThese epic tales are divided into two parts: the first charts the coming of the mythic Tuatha Dé Danaan to Ireland, the lives of Manannan and Lugh, and the tragedy of the Children of Lir. The second part follows the exploits and trials of Finn Mac Cumhal, the Fianna, Oisin, and the love story of Diarmuid and Grania.\nThis is a timeless collection of Irish myths and legends - whimsical, tragic, astounding and ever familiar - borne through the centuries, and an essential part of Ireland's literary heritage.

Irish Myths and Legends: Gods and Fighting Men

Contemporary

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