Broadside with drawings by Jack Butler Yeats
Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957)
Broadside with drawings of Lady Gregory (seated), W.B. Yeats (top right), Jack B. Yeats ("The Artist"), Douglas Hyde (bearded, addressing crowd), and John Quinn ("J.Q.")
August 1902
Gregory’s discovery of “folk learning, of folk poetry of ancient tradition” in the Galway countryside where she had grown up was, she wrote, “an extraordinary excitement” and an “upsetting of the table of values” she had inherited as an English-speaking, Protestant, Unionist landowner. She learned Irish, joined the Gaelic League—founded by Douglas Hyde in 1893 to promote the preservation of the Irish language—and began collecting folktales. Her many folklore publications include essays about the poet Antoine Ó Raifteirí (Anthony Raftery). In 1902 she sponsored a Féis (festival) to celebrate his work. In attendance with Gregory were Yeats and his brother Jack, Hyde, and New York lawyer John Quinn.
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