Born Augusta Persse in Roxborough, County Galway, Lady Augusta Gregory became famous in later life as a dramatist and folklorist with special interest in the unique idiom of Irish peasantry. She married Sir William Gregory in 1880, and after his death in 1892, she moved to Coole Park, County Galway. It was here in Coole Park, that she entertained the great literary figures of the time such as William Butler Yeats, George Russell, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge and Seán O’Casey. She collaborated with Yeats on collections of folklore and published widely. She also wrote approximately forty plays on the same theme, most of which were produced in the Abbey Theatre, which she was instrumental in founding.