The Kiltartan History Book. By Lady Gregory. Illustrated By Robert Gregory 1909
The Kiltartan History Book gets its title form the Barony of Kiltartan in which the author lived at Coole Park and where “I have heard a great number of the stories from beggars, pipers, traveling men, and such pleasant company.”
A chronological history of Ireland mixing myth and fact it was illustrated by the Lady Gregory’s son, Robert, who was killed while serving as a pilot during the First World War. An event that inspired Yeats’s poems ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’ and ‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory’.
The Kiltartan History Book gets its title form the Barony of Kiltartan in which the author lived at Coole Park and where “I have heard a great number of the stories from beggars, pipers, traveling men, and such pleasant company.”
A chronological history of Ireland mixing myth and fact it was illustrated by the Lady Gregory’s son, Robert, who was killed while serving as a pilot during the First World War. An event that inspired Yeats’s poems ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’ and ‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory’.
The Kiltartan History Book gets its title form the Barony of Kiltartan in which the author lived at Coole Park and where “I have heard a great number of the stories from beggars, pipers, traveling men, and such pleasant company.”
A chronological history of Ireland mixing myth and fact it was illustrated by the Lady Gregory’s son, Robert, who was killed while serving as a pilot during the First World War. An event that inspired Yeats’s poems ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’ and ‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory’.