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black and white pen and ink drawing of Lady Gregory standing on a globe with a book to her left

Lady Gregory sighing for new worlds to Kiltartanise

typed journal entry with some handwritten corrections

"the theatres may tremble”

black and white photograph of three young children in front of a mantle and fireplace
Image courtesy of Colin Smythe

The chicks

Unknown photographer
Anne Gregory, Catherine Gregory, and Richard Gregory at Coole

ca. 1920

Courtesy of Colin Smythe



Gregory's beloved grandchildren Anne (left), born in 1911, Catherine (center), born in 1913, and Richard, born in 1909, are shown here in front of one of the fireplaces at Coole. On the mantel are some of Gregory's massive collection of Staffordshire figurines, mainly of prominent political, literary, and historical individuals. For many years she took principal responsibility for looking after and teaching the "chicks," as she called them. Several of her later "wonder" plays were written with them and other children as their intended principal audience. Anne Gregory's memoir Me and Nu; Childhood at Coole gives an affectionate, revealing, and skillfully crafted child's-eye account of growing up there under their grandmother's care.

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  • Black and white photo of Lady Gregory standing in a field, wearing all black

    Section 8: Blessed Bridget O'Coole Introduction

  • black and white pen and ink drawing of Lady Gregory standing on a globe with a book to her left

    Lady Gregory sighing for new worlds to Kiltartanise

  • black and white photograph of three young children in front of a mantle and fireplace

    The chicks

  • typed journal entry with some handwritten corrections

    "the theatres may tremble”

  • Typescript journal entry with manuscript edits

    Cancer

  • typed draft of poem with handwritten corrections

    "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931"

  • title page of book with illustration of tree

    Coole

  • Black and white photo of Lady Gregory standing in a field, wearing all black

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