This tale by Lady Gregory is part of the first and third cycle of the mythical history of Ireland: the mythological and the Fenian. About it, Yeats wrote: “I think this book is the best that came out of Ireland in my time”.

Delve into the lives and legends of Ireland's most revered saints and voyagers in A Book of Saints and Wonders. Lady Gregory's collection captures the inspiring tales of Saints Brigit, Columcille, Patrick, and Brendan the Navigator, whose journey to a promised land stirs the imagination.Each story celebrates the faith, courage, and mysticism of these holy figures, blending hagiography with folklore. The volume also includes the remarkable tale of Maeldune's voyage and the enchantin...

Lady Gregory's Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland opens a door onto a world where myth, memory, and lived experience are inseparable. Framed by her lifelong devotion to Irish folklore and joined by W. B. Yeats's essays and notes, the book gathers testimony from the West of Ireland with rare intimacy and authority, treating the unseen as part of everyday reality. Its pages move from the shape-shifting Sidhe—those beautiful, perilous beings of mounds, thorn bushes, ruined castles, an...

"New Comedies" is a collection of plays written by Lady Gregory, an Irish playwright, folklorist, and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Lady Gregory was a significant figure in the Irish Literary Revival and made substantial contributions to Irish drama.The collection "New Comedies" likely includes a series of comedic plays that Lady Gregory crafted during her career. Her plays often drew upon Irish folklore, history, and the everyday lives of Irish people, reflecting her deep con...

"The Rising of the Moon" This play is set during the Irish struggle for independence and focuses on a tense encounter between an Irish rebel and a police officer. It explores themes of loyalty, patriotism, and betrayal."The Workhouse Ward" A poignant portrayal of life in an Irish workhouse, this play dramatizes the hardships faced by the poor and the impact of the institutionalized care system."The Gaol Gate" This play tells the story of a woman who awaits the return of her son from prison...

A rich collection of Irish myths and legends retold in accessible language, preserving Celtic folklore and heroic tradition.

Lady Augusta Gregory (15 March 1852 22 May 1932), was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. 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 was identified closely with British rule, her interest in the language and the legends of the local area was fostered early in her...

Gods And Fighting Men : The Story Of The Tuatha De Danaan And Of The Fianna Of Irelandby Lady Augusta Gregory"Gods and Fighting Men" is a fascinating collection of Irish Mythology from the earliest legends. It affects all of Ireland and the stories are fairly widespread throughout the Gaelic world. Lady Gregory wrote these translations with a view to retain the native Irish sense of story-telling; this she achieved remarkably well. As one of the best collections of Irish myt...

Lady Augusta Gregory's collection and translation of Irish folk legends brings, as Yeats observed, 'Ireland's gift of imagination to the world'.Following on from the bestselling Irish Myths and Legends: Gods and Fighting Men, this second volume, originally titled Cuchulain of Muirthemne, tells of the brave exploits of Ireland's answer to Achilles, the fearless Cuchulain and the Red Branch of Ulster, as well as the overpowering love of his wife Emer.Forming...

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory.

About seven years ago I began to dictate the first of these Plays to Lady Gregory. My eyesight had become so bad that I feared I could henceforth write nothing with my own hands but verses, which, as Theophile Gautier has said, can be written with a burnt match. Our Irish Dramatic movement was just passing out of the hands of English Actors, hired because we knew of no Irish ones, and our little troop of Irish amateurs—as they were at the time—could not have too many Plays, for they would ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...