Coole Park

"The Greatest Living Irishwoman" – George Bernard ShawWriter, playwright, folklorist, and co-founder of The Abbey Theatre, Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, née Isabella Augusta Persse, (born March 15, 1852, Roxborough, County Galway, Ireland – died May 22, 1932, Coole, did much to preserve Ireland’s forgotten history.Toward the end of the 19th Century, Queen Victoria, or so … [Read more...] about Lady Augusta Gregory