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1852 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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