A new exhibition nypl is the first major show to explore Gregory’s life and work
“ALL THIS mine alone.” The phrase, hastily scrawled in pencil across a neat manuscript, tells an intriguing story. The manuscript is a draft of William Butler Yeats’s play, “Cathleen ni Houlihan” , but the scribble belongs to Lady Augusta Gregory, a critical—yet often overlooked—figure in the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th century.
The manuscript is one of the items on display at the New York Public Library, in the first major exhibition to explore Gregory’s life and work. Born into the Anglo-Irish gentry in Galway, she had a passion for local folklore. Far from unsophisticated peasant entertainment, she saw the mischievous tales of fairies, pixies and warriors as a bedrock of Ireland’s cultural identity. From her home of Coole Park she would glean these stories from villagers, passed down to them from their forefathers.
Her and Yeats’s professional arrangement—where she did much of the research and writing, and he took most of the credit—seems peculiar by today’s standards. On the whole, she seemed happy to stay in the margins. As Colm Tóibín, the exhibition’s co-curator, says, her career was characterised by “a funny sort of self-suppression and self-assertion” . As a woman running a theatre, she enjoyed a remarkably public and commercial life.
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