15 March. Augusta Persse born at Roxborough House, Co. Galway. Marries Sir William Gregory, 1880. Widowed, 1892.
1871
16 April. J. M. Synge born at Rathfarnham, Dublin.
1896
Yeats and Synge meet in Paris.
1897
Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn plan an Irish theatre.
1898
First visits of Synge and of Lady Gregory to the Aran Islands.
1903
March, Lady Gregory's first play, Twenty-five, given by the Fay's Company at the Molesworth Hall in Dublin. October, First production of The Shadow of the Glen at the Molesworth Hall.
1904
First production of Riders to the Sea at the Molesworth Hall. 27 December opening night of the Abbey Theatre, and first production of Lady Gregory's Spreading the News.
1905
First production of The Well of the Saints at the Abbey.
1907
January--first production of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey; a week of riots. Summer--given successfully in Oxford and London. Synge's book The Aran Islands published.
1909
24 March. Synge dies in Dublin. First production of The Tinker's Wedding in London. Lady Gregory's Seven Short Plays published.
1910
First production of Deirdre of the Sorrows at the Abbey. First collected edition of Synge's plays published.
1911
Lady Gregory and the Abbey Company tour America, with Playboy; more riots.
1913
Lady Gregory's Our Irish Theatre published.
1921
Lady Gregory 'discovers' Sean O'Casey.
1925
Abbey Theatre becomes the first state-subsidised theatre in the English-speaking world.
1932
22 May. Lady Gregory dies at Coole.
1951
Abbey Theatre gutted by fire.
1961
Building of new Abbey Theatre begins.
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Publication Information: Book Title: J. M. Synge and Lady Gregory. Contributors: Elizabeth Coxhead - author. Publisher: Longmans, Green. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1962. Page Number: 5.
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