Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music transcribed by Brian Foley using LilyPond. _By Lady Gregory_ Irish Folk-History Plays First Series: The Tragedies Grania. Kincora. Dervorgilla Second Series: The Tragic Comedies The Canavans. The White Cockade. The Deliverer New Comedies The Bogie Men. The Full Moon. Coats. Damer’s Gold. McDonough’s Wife Our Irish Theatre A Chapter of Autobiography Seven Short Plays Spreading the News. Hyacinth Halvey. The Rising of the Moon. The Jackdaw. The Workhouse Ward. The Travelling Man. The Gaol Gate The Golden Apple A Kiltartan Play for Children Seven Short Plays By Lady Gregory G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1916 COPYRIGHT, 1903, by LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY COPYRIGHT, 1904, by LADY GREGORY COPYRIGHT, 1905, by LADY GREGORY COPYRIGHT, 1906, by LADY GREGORY COPYRIGHT, 1909, by LADY GREGORY These plays have been copyrighted and published simultaneously in the United States and Great Britain. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages. All acting rights, both professional and amateur, are reserved in the United States, Great Britain, and all countries of the Copyright Union, by the author. Performances forbidden and right of presentation reserved. Application for the right of performing these plays or reading them in public should be made to Samuel French, 28 West 38th St., New York City, or 26 South Hampton St., Strand, London. Second Impression The Knickerbocker Press, New York DEDICATION _To you, W. B. YEATS, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade._ AUGUSTA GREGORY _Abbey Theatre, May 1, 1909._ CONTENTS PAGE SPREADING THE NEWS 1 HYACINTH HALVEY 29 THE RISING OF THE MOON 75 THE JACKDAW 93 THE WORKHOUSE WARD 137 THE TRAVELLING MAN 155 THE GAOL GATE 173 MUSIC FOR THE SONGS IN THE PLAYS 189 NOTES, &C. 196 SPREADING THE NEWS PERSONS _Bartley Fallon._ _Mrs. Fallon._ _Jack Smith._ _Shawn Early._ _Tim Casey._ _James Ryan._ _Mrs. Tarpey._ _Mrs. Tully._ _A Policeman_ (JO MULDOON). _A Removable Magistrate._ SPREADING THE NEWS _Scene: The outskirts of a Fair. An Apple Stall, Mrs. Tarpey sitting at it. Magistrate and Policeman enter._