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[[Image:Lady gregory1.jpg|left|miniatura|Portada de ''The WHITE COCKADE. A Comedy in Three Acts, by Lady Gregory, being Volume VIII. of the Abbey Theatre Series.'']]
Lady Gregory mantívose coma directora activa do teatro ata que se víu obrigada a retirarse en 1928 por problemas de saúde. Durante este tempo escribiu máis de 19 obras, principalmente para a súa produción no Abbey Theatre.<ref name="IWO" /> Escribiu moitas delas nun intento de [[transliteración]] do dialecto [[hiberno-inglés]] falado en Coole Park que pasou a coñecerse coma "Kiltartanés", procedente da vila de [[Kiltartan]]. As súas obras foron das que máis éxito tiveron no Abbey Theatre durante os primeiros anos do mesmo,<ref>{{cita enciclopedia|apelidos=Pethica|nome=James L.|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33554|título=Gregory, (Isabella) Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932)"|enciclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|editorial=Oxford University Press|ano=2004}}</ref> pero a súa popularidade foi diminuíndo. O escritor irlandés [[Oliver St. John Gogarty]] afirmou que "a presentación perpetua das súas obras case arruinou o Abbey".<ref>{{cita web|url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/g/Gregory_A1/life.htm|título=[Lady] Augusta Gregory (1852-1932)|páxina-web=Ricorso|nome=Bruce|apelidos=Stewart}}</ref> A maiores das súas obras teatrais, escribiu un estudio de dous volumes sobre o folclore da súa terra natal titulado ''Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland'', en 1920.<ref>{{cita publicación periódica|título=’Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland’: Irish folklore and British anthropology, 1898–1920|nome=Selina|apelidos=Guinness|pp=37-46|revista=Irish Studies Review|volume=6|número=1|ano=1998|doi=10.1080/09670889808455591}}</ref>
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===Retiro e morte===
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