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<p>In this remarkable biographical essay, Colm Tóibín examines the contradictions that defined Lady Gregory, an essential figure in Irish cultural history. She was the wife of a landlord and member of Parliament who had been personally responsible for introducing measures that compounded the misery of the Irish peasantry during the Great Famine. Yet, Lady Gregory devoted much of her creative energy to idealizing that same peasantry, while never abandoning the aristocratic hauteur, the social connections, or the great house that her birth and marriage had bequeathed to her.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lady Gregoryâs capacity to occupy mutually contradictory positions was essential to her heroic work as a founder and director of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin-nurturing Synge and OâCasey, her battles with rioters and censors, and to her central role in the career of W. B. Yeats. She was Yeatsâs artistic collaborator (writing most of Cathleen Ní Houlihan, for example), his helpmeet, and his diplomatic wing. Tóibínâs account of Yeatsâs attempts-by turns glorious and graceless-to memorialize Lady Gregoryâs son Robert when he was killed in the First World War, and of Lady Gregoryâ

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Author

Colm Tóibín

Publisher

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299180003

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.63 / 5 (95 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13