It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
Lady GregoryWhat the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
Lady GregoryThe first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
Lady GregoryMy husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went throughโ to be two months without going into a houseโ under the snow in trenches. And no food to getโ maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food thereโ he saidโ to feed all Ireland; but bad managementโ they could not get it.
Lady Gregory