The Autograph Tree
Published on 7. February 2020
288 pages
978-1-78117-642-9 (ISBN)
Description
Between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, Lady Augusta Gregory welcomed numerous distinguished literary and artistic friends to her home in Coole Park. Many of these visitors were invited to carve their initials onto a wonderful 160-year-old copper beech tree in her walled garden, which became known as 'the Autograph Tree'. This book contains profiles of the signatories. The book is also a history of the Irish Literary Revival told through the biographical accounts of these people, as many of them played significant roles in this very important event.
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William Henry is an historian, archaeologist and author of several titles including Coffin Ship, Hidden Galway, Famine; Galway's Darkest Years, Forgotten Heroes and Galway and the Great War. He lives in Galway.
Content
- Intro
- Titel
- Impressum
- Widmung
- Inhalt
- Acknowledgements
- Coole Park
- Introduction
- Augusta Persse
- Robert Gregory
- William Butler Yeats
- Jack Butler Yeats
- John Millington Synge
- Sara Allgood
- Frank Fay
- William George Fay
- George William Russell
- John Quinn
- Augustus John
- James Dickson Innes
- George Bernard Shaw
- Lennox Robinson
- Sean O'Casey
- George Moore
- Douglas Hyde
- Violet Florence Martin
- Lady Margaret Sackville
- Countess of Cromartie
- John Masefield
- Robert Ross
- Elinor Monsell
- Dame Ethel Smyth
- Theodore Spicer-Simson
- General Sir Ian Hamilton
- General Sir Neville Lyttelton
- Coole
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- other books by the author
- About the Publisher
