Lady Gregory Quotes
Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
Lady Gregory. Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, First Series. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920, p. 288.
the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox Dante, as well as other writers understood the spherical earth 200 years before Galileo and 150 years before Columbus. There were ancients who knew about the round earth as well. See {590333} and {590334}.
Diversarum Hereseon Liber. This compendium of heresies would be funny but for the fact that people lived and died according to their “acceptance” of some of these absurdities.
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings of stories taken from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, she turned against it. Her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced by her writings, was emblematic of many of the political struggles to occur in Ireland during her lifetime.
