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===Retiro e morte===
Cando se retirou da dirección do Abbey volveu a vivir en Galway, aínda que visitando Dublín de forma regular. A sua casa e os seus bens de Coole Park vendéranse á [[Coillte Teoranta|Irish Forestry Commission]] en 1927, con Lady Gregory mantendo un alquiler de por vida.<ref>Genet, Jacqueline. "The Big House in Ireland: Reality and Representation". Barnes & Noble, 1991. p. 271.</ref> Lady Gregory faleceu no seu fogar ós 80 anos de idade a causa dun [[cancro de mama]],<ref name="Gonzalez98" /> e foi soterrada en [[Bohermore]], [[condado de Galway|Galway]]. O contido completo dos bens de Coole Park vendéronse nunha poxa tres meses despois da súa morte, e a casa foi demolida en 1941.<ref>[http://coolepark.ie/briefhistory/index.html "Brief History of Coole Park"], The Department of Arts, Heritage and the GAeltacht, accessed 6 April 2013.</ref>
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When she retired from the Abbey board, Lady Gregory returned to live in Galway, although she continued to visit Dublin regularly. The house and [[demesne]] at Coole Park had been sold to the [[Coillte Teoranta|Irish Forestry Commission]] in 1927, with Lady Gregory retaining life tenancy.<ref>Genet, Jacqueline. "The Big House in Ireland: Reality and Representation". Barnes & Noble, 1991. p. 271.</ref> Her Galway home had long been a focal point for the writers associated with the Irish Literary Revival, and this continued after her retirement. On a tree in what were the grounds of the house, one can still see the carved initials of Synge, Æ, Yeats and his artist brother [[Jack Yeats|Jack]], [[George A. Moore|George Moore]], [[Seán O'Casey]], [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[Katharine Tynan]] and [[Violet Martin]]. Yeats wrote five poems about, or set in, the house and grounds: "The Wild Swans at Coole", "I walked among the seven woods of Coole", "In the Seven Woods", "Coole Park, 1929" and "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931".
Shaw describiu nunha ocasión coma "a muller irlandesa viva máis grande",<ref>Goldsmith 1854, p. 178.</ref> As súas obras perderon popularidade trala súa morte, e non adoitan representarse.<ref>Gordon 1970, p. 28.</ref> Moitos dos diarios e xornais que mantivo durante a súa vida adulta foron publicados, servindo de fonte de información para a historia da [[literatura irlandesa]] durante as primeiras tres décadas do [[século XX]].<ref>Pethica 1995.</ref>
Lady Gregory, whom Shaw once described as "the greatest living Irishwoman"<ref>Goldsmith 1854, p. 178.</ref> died at home aged 80 from [[breast cancer]],<ref name="Gonzalez98" /> and is buried in the New Cemetery in [[Bohermore]], [[County Galway]]. The entire contents of Coole Park were auctioned three months after her death, and the house was demolished in 1941.<ref>[http://coolepark.ie/briefhistory/index.html "Brief History of Coole Park"], The Department of Arts, Heritage and the GAeltacht, accessed 6 April 2013.</ref>
Her plays fell out of favour after her death, and are now rarely performed.<ref>Gordon 1970, p. 28.</ref> Many of the diaries and journals she kept for most of her adult life have been published, providing a rich source of information on Irish literary history during the first three decades of the 20th century.<ref>Pethica 1995.</ref> -->
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