Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Brand of Ulster (The Coole Edition, 2) - Hardcover

Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta

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ISBN 10: 0900675268 ISBN 13: 9780900675263

Publisher: Colin Smythe Ltd, 1993

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A re-telling of the Irish saga. When first published, Gregory's version affected not only Yeats, but every important writer of the period. George Russell (AE) wrote: ""I never expect to read a more beautiful book...Your story of Deirdre is extraordinarily lovely, indeed the whole book...made my heart beat with a half painful pleasure...You have acted the fairy godmother to me and to many Irish people by bringing the good gift our hearts desired.

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About the Author:

Isabella Augusta (15 March, 1852 - 22 May, 1932) born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. She married Sir William Henry Gregory, a widower with an estate at Coole Park, near Gort, County Galway, on 4 March 1880, at St Matthias church in Dublin. As the wife of a knight, she became entitled to be called "Lady Gregory". She continued to write prose during the period of her marriage. During the winter of 1883, while her husband was in Ceylon, she worked on a series of memoirs of her childhood home with a view to publishing them under the title An Emigrant's Notebook, but this plan was abandoned. She wrote a series of pamphlets in 1887 called Over the River, in which she appealed for funds for the parish of St. Stephens in Southwark, south London. She also wrote a number of short stories in the years 1890 and 1891, although these also never appeared in print.

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Text: English (translation)

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