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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Jennifer Johnston | JJ
began going to school at the tender age of three: she had problems with her sight and it was felt that this would teach her to recognise her letters. She attended Park House School... |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | During her last year at Cheltenham
, MK
heard W. B. Yeats
lecture on the Irish poet and playwright J. M. Synge
. Biographer Violet Powell
gives Synge's initialswrongly as J. B. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 28 |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | AG
first noticed John Millington Synge
in May 1898, near the ridge of Inishmaan, one of the Aran Islands, where they were both collecting folklore. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985. 125 |
Friends, Associates | Constance, Countess Markievicz | These members included Æ
(George Russell
), W. B.
and Jack Yeats
, J. M. Synge
, and William Orpen
. |
Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | As a student in Dublin, KOB
eagerly attended the Abbey Theatre
. This was a period between Synge
and O'Casey
, but she delighted in plays by Shaw
, beginning with Man and Superman. O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962. 116-17 |
Literary responses | Teresa Deevy | This work was awarded, jointly with Paul Vincent Carroll
's Things that are Caesar's, the Abbey
's prize for new playwrights. It was revived at the Abbey
in late August 1937. Frank O'Connor
wrote... |
Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | The collection was widely admired when it first appeared in print. Yeats
praised it in his preface as the best book that has come out of Ireland in my time McDiarmid, Lucy, Maureen Waters, and Augusta Gregory. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xxviii |
Literary responses | Emily Lawless | Algernon Swinburne
wrote Lawless a gushing letter on reading Grania, describing it as one of the most exquisite and perfect works in the language—unique in pathos, humour, and convincing persuasion of truthfulness. Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, pp. 80 - 100. 85 |
Occupation | Edith Craig | The costumes were judged to be a success, and the performance marked a turning point in her theatrical career. She branched into costume design (having formed a company, Edith Craig and Co.
, which was... |
Occupation | Augusta Gregory | A plan for a theatre began to emerge, with the stated mission of show[ing] that Ireland is not the home of buffonery and of easy sentiment, as it has been represented, but the home of... |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | The Abbey Theatre Company
produced AG
's The White Cockade, a play which J. M. Synge
thought made the writing of historical drama again possible. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii. vii Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, 1970, p. v - xiii. ix |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | One source of inspiration for this play was the 1887-88 imprisonment of AG
's close friend, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
, for protesting against the eviction of tenants during the Land War. McDiarmid, Lucy, Maureen Waters, and Augusta Gregory. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525. 537, 547 |
Residence | Seamus Heaney | On his resignation from Queen's University, SH
settled in a cottage in the Republic of Ireland: at Glanmore in Wicklow, giving up the routine—and salary—of a teaching position to put the practice of poetry... |
Textual Production | W. B. Yeats | He and his wife Georgiana
travelled to Stockholm to accept the prize. In his acceptance speech, Yeats acknowledged the importance of Augusta Gregory
and John Synge
to his writing. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
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