Biography
A biographical essay on Lady Augusta Gregory, exploring her contradictions as an Irish cultural icon and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre.
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A biographical essay on Lady Augusta Gregory, exploring her contradictions as an Irish cultural icon and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre.
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'It is the battle between those who use a toothbrush and those who don’t.' So wrote Augusta Gregory to W.B. Yeats; she was referring to the riots at the Abbey Theatre over The Playboy of the Western World, and she knew which side she was on. In this remarkable biographical essay, Colm Toíbín examines the contradictions that defined the position of this essential figure in Irish cultural history, The wife of a landlord and MP who had been personally responsible for introducing measures that compo...
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