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Tables of Contents for Selected Writings
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
xi
Map of Lady Gregory's Ireland
xlvi
A Note on the Texts
xlviii
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
1
54
from Seventy Years
3
52
The First Decades
3
21
Marriage
24
13
The Changing Ireland
37
18
FOLKLORE AND TRANSLATIONS FROM THE IRISH
55
110
from Visions and Beliefs
57
41
from `Seers and Healers'
57
19
from `Away'
76
1
from `Herbs, Charms and Wise Women'
77
11
from `Banshees and Warnings'
88
1
from `The Unquiet Dead'
89
2
from `Appearances'
91
5
from `Forths and Sheoguey Places'
96
1
from `Monsters and Sheoguey Beasts'
96
2
from Poets and Dreamers
98
46
Raftery
98
32
West Irish Ballads (including `Fair-haired Donough' and `The Grief of a Girl's Heart')
130
14
from A Book of Saints and Wonders
144
7
from `Brigit, the Mother of the Gael'
144
2
from `Blessed Patrick of the Bells'
146
3
from `Great Wonders of the Olden Time'
149
2
from The Kiltartan Poetry Book
151
7
Raftery's Praise of Mary Hynes
151
1
His Praise of the Little Hill and the Plains of Mayo
152
1
His Answer When Some Stranger Asked Who He Was
152
1
A Blessing on Patrick Sarsfield
153
1
An Aran Maid's Wedding
154
1
A Poem Written in Time of Trouble by an Irish Priest Who Had Taken Orders in France
154
1
The Heart of the Wood
155
1
Her Lament for His Death
156
2
from The Kiltartan History Book
158
7
Usheen in Tir-Nan-Oge
158
1
His Return to Ireland
158
1
Usheen and Patrick
159
1
The Arguments
159
1
Elizabeth
160
1
Emmet's Dress
161
1
The Tinker
161
1
A Present
162
1
His Strategy
162
1
The Man Who was Going to be Hanged
162
1
The Cup of the Sassanach
163
1
A Grand Man
164
1
The Thousand Fishers
164
1
IRISH SAGA AND ROMANCE
165
82
from Cuchulain of Muirthemne
167
36
Fate of the Sons of Usnach
167
30
The Only Son of Aoife
197
6
from Gods and Fighting Men
203
44
The Fate of the Children of Lir
203
15
The Coming of Finn
218
9
Oisin and Patrick
227
20
ESSAYS ON IRISH CULTURE
247
52
from `Ireland, Real and Ideal'
249
5
The Felons of Our Land
254
16
Our Irish Theatre
270
16
The Fight with the Castle
270
16
from `Laughter in Ireland'
286
13
PLAYS
299
124
Kathleen ni Houlihan
301
11
Spreading the News
312
17
Hyacinth Halvey
329
27
The Gaol Gate
356
7
The Rising of the Moon
363
10
The Workhouse Ward
373
10
Grania
383
40
POEMS
423
10
A Woman's Sonnets
425
6
`Alas! a woman may not love!'
431
2
JOURNALS
433
92
from Volume I (1916--1925)
435
62
from Volume II (1925--1932)
497
28
Notes
525
27
Guide to Pronunciation of Irish Names
552
1
Glossary: Words, Places, Persons, Allusions
553
4
Brief Chronology of Modern Irish History
557
2
Bibliography
559
6
Works by Lady Gregory
559
1
Select Works about Lady Gregory
560
5
Index
565