Lady Gregory, co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, to be memorialised with statue at her former home

Lady Gregory’s home played host to the likes of William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey over the years. File picture

One of Ireland’s most famed dramatists, who co-founded the Abbey Theatre, is set to be immortalised with a statue on the site of her former home.

A sculpture of Lady Gregory, born Isabella Augusta Persse in 1852, will be erected at Coole Park, Co Galway.