It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.
Lady GregoryIn writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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