Lady Gregory

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Lynn Ruane Lynn Ruane

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Lady Gregory review: Margolyes and Ruane explore the life of the ... (Irish Examiner)

As well as the entertaining banter between the hosts, episode one of Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer provided interesting insight into one ...

With a mix of curiosity and humour, Margolyes and Ruane succeed in showing us Gregory as “a full human being”. Quick as a flash, Senator Lynn Ruane retorts “and I’ll be in like Lynn”. Margolyes and Ruane feel this too, as they set out on a biographical road trip to uncover the stories that made this iconic woman who she was.

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'You have a very strong accent': Miriam Margolyes hits peak Brit ... (The Irish Times)

In Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer the unlikely pair have a merry time traversing Ireland to unpick the Abbey cofounder's life.

Instead, Ruane and Margoyles have a merry time traversing the country. This, though, isn’t a documentary to get lost in the weeds. Despite her suffocating upbringing, she cultivated a passion for the Celtic heritage of the people of the west. It feels telling that most of the experts singing her praises are British – Gregory seems to loom larger for them than for many in the country where she grew up. In the case of Ruane and Margoyles the logic is more obscure. Margoyles has a strong accent, too – though, of course, she probably wouldn’t see it that way.

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