Ireland’s Boadicea

As the Celtic Twilight drifts away from the scenes of Ireland’s Risorgimento, the tougher characters survive. Yeats has been carried away in Cuchulain’s “fairy chariot.” Synge and Ibsen meet in the palace of realism. Lady Gregory, long the despised and battered maid of all work, takes place as the most important figure in those days of rising drama, rising dance and speech, and finally of a people rising out of the Irish dust.

Lady Gregory: A Literary Portrait, by Elizabeth Coxhead. Harcourt, Brace, $5.95

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As the Celtic Twilight drifts away from the scenes of Ireland’s Risorgimento, the tougher characters survive. Yeats has been carried away in Cuchulain’s “fairy chariot.” Synge and Ibsen meet in the palace of realism. Lady Gregory, long the despised and battered maid of all work, takes place as the most important figure in those days of rising drama, rising dance and speech, and finally of a people rising out of the Irish dust.

Lady Gregory: A Literary Portrait, by Elizabeth Coxhead. Harcourt, Brace, $5.95