Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish.

Lady Gregory

Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish.

Dublin

Hodges, Figgis, and Co., Ltd. London: John Murray

1903

Inscribed: “A. Gregory.”

Lady Gregory's own copy of her selection of explications and translations of Irish folktales and ballads, with her bookplate, opens with two elderly women reminiscing about the blind Irish bard Anthony Raftery, whose Gaelic verses in the 1800s led to his reputation as Ireland's Homer. The volume includes translations from the Gaelic of several plays on Irish folk themes by Douglas Hyde, the future first President of an independent Ireland, writing under his Gaelic pen name, An Craoibhín Aoibhinn, which means "the delightful little branch."