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Diarmuid and Grania is a 1901 play in poetic prose by George Moore and W. B. Yeats, based on the translation of the tale by Lady Gregory, with incidental music by Edward Elgar. Tóruigheact Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne was translated by Nessa Ní Shéaghda in 1967 and used in schools for study in Irish literature.
Moore had ambitions for Elgar to write him an opera, but initially asked him to start with the music in the third act, for the death of Diarmuid "..when words can go no further and then I would like music to take up the emotion...". [2] Elgar was enthusiastic, and before even reading the play wrote the lengthy, slow Funeral March. [2]
Diarmuid and Gráinne: Genre: Romance, tragedy: Setting: Almhuin, Ancient Ireland: Grania is a play written by Lady Gregory in 1912. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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It is famous in Irish legend, appearing in The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, [4] and was the site of a military confrontation during the Irish Civil War. [ 5 ] The phrase "Mareotic Lake", which appears in the second line of the poem, is used in the classical religious work De Vita Contemplativa to refer to Lake Mariout in Egypt which was ...
The following is an incomplete list of works by the Irish novelist, short-story writer and poet George Moore. Flowers of Passion London: Provost & Company, 1878; Martin Luther: A Tragedy in Five Acts London: Remington & Company, 1879; Pagan Poems London: Newman & Company, 1881; A Modern Lover London: Tinsley Brothers, 1883
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In The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, Gráinne was promised in marriage to Fionn but, repulsed by his age, she forms a relationship with Diarmuid at their betrothal party. At first he refuses out of loyalty to Fionn but she places a geis upon him to run away with her. Their long flight from Fionn is aided by Diarmuid's foster-father Aengus Óg.