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Article: Coole Park sale is brushed by genius, and a few literary rears... TALK OF THE TOWN.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Byline: EDITED BY JAMES GIBBONS
WHAT to buy for the cultured man who has everything? How about a dining table on which once rested Yeatsian elbows, a chair brushed by Synge's literary bottom or a washstand at which O'Casey may have shaved his five o'clock shadow? Step forward Santa Claus in the shape of George and Fonsie Mealy, those affable fine art dealers from Castlecomer, who are auctioning some of the contents of Lady Augusta Gregory's Coole Park - just in time for Christmas, too, on November 22.
Lady Gregory, of course, was known for her leading role in the Literary Revival and her founding of the Abbey Theatre - as well as for entertaining the ...