Lady Gregory sighing for new worlds to Kiltartanise
Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett (1888-1955)
"Lady Gregory sighing for new worlds to Kiltartanise"
ca. 1919
Pen and ink on paper
Grace Gifford Plunkett's first collection, To Hold as 'Twere, featured this caricature of Lady Gregory standing upon a volume entitled Gregorian Chants, gazing at a Koran as she "sigh [ s] for new worlds to Kiltartanise." Engaged to poet and journalist Joseph Plunkett, one of the main planners of the Easter Rising, Grace Gifford managed to gain entry to Kilmainham Jail a few hours before he was executed at dawn on May 4, 1916, and persuaded the military authorities to allow them to marry. She remained an active member of Sinn Fein for the rest of her life and continued her work as an illustrator and cartoonist. She never remarried. In 1929, Gregory wrote the introduction to Plunkett's Twelve Nights at the Abbey.
: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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