Lady Gregory: 23 books

A Book Of Saints And Wonders by Lady Gregory A Book of Saints and Wonders by Lady Augusta Gregory contains chapters on the doings and lives of Saints Brigit, Columcille, Patrick, and Brendan the Navigator (who voyaged to the Promised Land). The last two chapters are more mythical. One recounts...

8 works of Augusta Lady Gregory Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager (1852-1932) This ebook presents a collection of 8 works of Augusta Lady Gregory. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: A Book of Saints and Wonders...

A Book Of Saints And Wonders by Lady Gregory "The volume is divided into 'books', one each allotted to the doings and lives of Saints Brigit, Columcille, Patrick, and Brendan the Navigator (who voyaged to the promised land). The last two books are more mythical, one dealing with the fabulous...

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Lady GregoryGods and Fighting MenThe Kiltartan History BookThe Kiltartan Poetry BookNew Irish ComediesPoets and DreamersThree Wonder PlaysUnicorn From The Stars

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Seven Short Plays. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Lady Gregory,...

In the introduction to this 1919 collection of Irish poems, the author describes her patriotic awakening, and love for her Irish roots. After gathering thirty-seven folk poems from the people of Ireland—a stonecutter, a basket maker, a man on the street, among others—Lady Gregory translated and collected them here.

Upon publication of this 1913 account of the Irish Literary Revival, the New York Times called it "the record of an enthusiasm . . . almost like finding one's self in a fairy tale."  Yeats, Synge, and other luminaries of the Irish literary fundament appear in Lady Gregory's detailed history.

This 1912 collection of plays by Lady Gregory, dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt, contains three tragedies:  Grania, Kincora, and Dervorgilla.  Many critics believe that Grania, in which she takes a traditional myth glorifying female self-sacrifice and gives it a feminist reinterpretation, is her masterpiece.

By 1907, Lady Gregory was delving deep into the wellsprings of her Irish heritage. She collected the religious and  folk stories of her people and retold them in this book for modern readers. This volume includes “Brigit, the Mary of the Gael,” “Columcille, the Friend of the Angels of God,” “Blessed Patrick of the Bells,” “The Voyage of Brendan,” and others.

Tapping some of the most ancient and authentic tales of Irish mythology, Lady Gregory presents legends from a time when gods still walked the earth. Retold from the Gaelic, this is one of the most entertaining and comprehensive sources of Irish myth available. The preface is by William Butler Yeats.

Published in 1922, this collection of plays features, in addition to The Image, Hanrahan's Oath, Shanwalla, and The Wrens.  A contemporary review in The Atlantic praised The Image as "a finely spun comedy" and complimented Gregory's "complete understanding of the Irish people."

A few months ago l was on the bare Hill of Allen, 'wide Almhuin of Leinster', where Finn and the Fianna lived, according to the stories, although there are no earthen mounds there like those that mark the sites of old buildings on so many hills. A hot sun beat down upon flowering gorse and flowerless...

The Sidhe cannot make themselves visible to all. They are shape-changers; they can grow small or grow large, they can take what shape they choose; they appear as men or women wearing clothes of many colours, of today or of some old forgotten fashion, or they are seen as bird or beast, or as a barrel...

Published in 1909, this collection of seven plays consists of Spreading the News, Hyacinth Halvey, The Rising of the Moon, The Jackdaw, The Workhouse Ward, The Travelling Man, and The Gaol Gate, along with a chapter containing music for the songs featured in the plays.