Posted on 05/15/2023 12:52:03 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
Lady Gregory was born on this date, 15 May, 171 years ago, in 1852, in County Galway, Ireland.
Wikipedia reports that study of her grandfather-in-law’s letters lead to a shift in her politics “from the “soft” Unionism of her earlier writing on Home Rule to a definite support of Irish nationalism and Republicanism, and to what she was later to describe as “a dislike and distrust of England”.”
Lady Gregory took her motto from Aristotle: “To think like a wise man, but to express oneself like the common people.”
Here are some examples of her quality thought:
“I’ll take no charity! What I get I’ll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.”
“It takes madness to find out madness.”
“It’s best make changes little by little, the same as you’d put clothes upon a growing child.”
“There’s more learning than is taught in books.”
“It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found ………. the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.”
“It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.”
“I don’t know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.”
Some of these remind me of Mark Twain at his best.
God Bless Freedom (because that’s how we really learn who we are)
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Met a Galway girl once (2nd gen American). SBlack hair green eyes. Then I moved from Ft. Worth to E. Texas. Dang shame. But what I have have now makes sense. Glad nothing became of it. Galway girl was very pretty. But I would not trade my little Choctaw woman for anything.
I don’t know if it’s about Lady Gregory, but The Galway Shawl is a wonderful tune.
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