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A formidable lady

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Portrait by John Butler Yeats in 1903
    via Patrick Chartrain
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Here she is at The Peerage (including an 1893 portrait) ...

    Isabella Augusta Persse was born on 15 March 1852.1 She was the daughter of Dudley Persse and Frances Barry.3 She married Rt. Hon. Sir William Henry Gregory, son of Robert Gregory and Elizabeth O'Hara, on 4 March 1880.1 She died on 22 May 1932 at age 80.
    Isabella Augusta Persse usually went by her middle name of Augusta.2 From 4 March 1880, her married name became Gregory.
    Yeats wrote 'she had made the people part of her soul.1' She was co-founder of Abbey Theatre, Dublin.1 She was a playwright.

    See - www.thepeerage.com/p45356.htm
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The NLI catalogue says the photo was taken in 1911 during an American tour. I wonder if she is dressed as some character?

    ... In 1911–12 she accompanied the Abbey players on an American tour and oversaw the response to protests organised by Irish-American activists such as John Devoy (qv) against the staging of the ‘Playboy’. During this visit to America she had a brief affair with John Quinn (qv) and discovered the profits obtainable by lecturing to American audiences; she returned to America for a lecture tour in 1913. The ‘Playboy’ tour of America also gave rise to her semi-official and decidedly selective history of the company, Our Irish theatre (1913), written in the form of letters to her grandson Richard (b. 1909). ...
    From - www.dib.ie/biography/gregory-isabella-augusta-a3622
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Via Trove, "Riotous scenes" in New York, 1911 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167004024?searchTerm=A...
  • O Mac said:
    Coole portrait.

With a look that would sour milk

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    PORTRAIT OF RIA MOONEY, 1928 HARRY KERNOFF RHA (1900-1974) via Hoodworld
  • Niall McAuley said:
    At wikipedia. Resident producer at the abbey from 1948 to 63.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The play is by Lady Gregory, from 1904, and was performed at the Abbey as late as 1961 according to its own wikipedia page. Mooney would presumably have been playing Mrs. Fallon.
  • Carol Maddock said:
    This, from her impressive life in the deadly Dictionary of Irish Biography, is delicious: "Although she had always wanted to be an actress, she had not been keen to act at the Abbey. Reminiscing in an unpublished autobiography, she alluded to its members, particularly W. B. Yeats and Lennox Robinson, as ‘odd-looking people’."
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Born Maria Mooney 30th April 1903.

He that goes a borrowin goes a sorrowin

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    We met his wife, Eileen Crowe, not too long ago -
  • Niall McAuley said:
    at the DIB
  • Suck Diesel said:
    "Th' whole worl's in a terrible state o' chassis"
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel True.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    born 1890, so 43 in this shot.