Word: cuchulain
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Died. Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, 80, Irish dramatist, patroness of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, widow of the late Governor Sir William Gregory of Ceylon; in Belfast. An able playwright (Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Gods & Fighting Men, Saints & Wonders), she sponsored the "Celtic Renaissance" with George Moore, William Butler Yeats, Edward Martyn. Creating an Irish National Theatre out of Abbey Theatre, she aroused a storm of protest with her productions. So unpopular was John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World that Lady Gregory's young nephews had to fetch burly athletes from Trinity College to quell...
Across the bay from Ballycastle lies Aran Island. Too barren and sunless to tempt invaders, it went untouched, and almost unknowing, while the rest of Ireland gave up its lands and its memories. But the fishermen on Aran still remembered Cuchulain and the Red Branch, and the language of the Erse; their infrequent English, with its archaic vocabulary sounds like a foreign tongue. For them was reserved a later invasion and a stranger. A young man who had found the music schools of Germany and the cafes of Paris not at all to his liking was rowed out from...