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unusual facts about George Moore



Ada Leverson

She was also a friend of George Moore; Osbert Sitwell in Great Morning has an anecdote in which she tries, unsuccessfully, to get Moore to see the young William Walton.

Buck Mulligan

Gogarty was a medical student at the time of his acquaintance with Joyce; he had also studied classics at Trinity, had been to Oxford, was known to have saved men from drowning, and was friendly with George Moore.

Cuchulain of Muirthemne

In his memoir Hail and Farewell, George Moore, formerly a comrade of Lady Gregory and Yeats in the Irish Literary Theatre, accused Lady Gregory of plagiarizing her materials for the work.

Irish Literary Revival

The Irish Literary Theatre was founded by Yeats, Lady Gregory and Martyn in 1899, with assistance from George Moore.


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Diarmuid and Grania

George Moore wrote a novel based on a translation by Lady Gregory of the Fenian tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and GrĂ¡inne.

Wilson MacDonald

Of course, everything bought at a performance could also be autographed; MacDonald, like George Moore before him, or A. Edward Newton, was an author whose books are seldom found unsigned.