Earlier that week Lady Gregory had seen the crowds welcoming home her and Yeats’s friend Countess Markievicz. The Countess had been in prison for her role in the Easter Rising (for which she had ...

Yeats had the good fortune to form, in the late '90s, one of the most important friendships of his life. He met Lady Gregory when his need for a staying influence was crucial. He had not entirely ...

We are not likely to have more lasting monuments put over us,” she wrote, “and we cannot have more gracious ones than the ...

When complimented, she said she was just a hen picking up scraps. 'Among the scraps were all Yeats's letters to Lady Gregory, done up in innumerable small bundles according to year, with ribbons ...