Thom's Irish Who's Who/Gregory, Padraic

GREGORY, Padraic, M.R.I.A.I., poet, folk-lorist, architect; b. Belfast, Sept. 30th, 1886; eldest son of the late Patrick K. Gregory, of Durango, Colo, U.S.A., and Hannah Mary, youngest dau. of the late Patrick Downey, of Craigbilly, Ballymena, Co. Antrim; m., 1917, Madeline (died 1920), 3rd dau. of the late Hugh Crothers, Wine Merchant of Belfast; one son, one dau.; educ.: in U.S.A., and by Christian Bros, and private tutors in Ireland; studied architecture under J. J. O'Shea and Thos. Pentland in Belfast, and at Belfast School of Art; Lanyon Prizeman for Measured Drawing; elec. to Royal last, of the Architects of Ireland, 1920. Connected from its inception till 1916 with the Ulster Literary Theatre; contributor of prose and verse to Studies, The New Ireland Review, The Irish Monthly, The Irish Rosary, The Book-Lover, etc.; is represented in The Book of Irish Poetry, Irish Poets of To-day, The Treasury of Irish Prose and Verse, The Lullabies of Four Nations, and in many other modern anthologies; many of his historical ballads have been set forth since 1916 in Irish school texts and have been done into Danish; has frequently lectured on balladry before learned societies in Ireland and England; many of his songs have been set to music, notably An Ardglass Boat-Song, and Padraic, the Fiddlier, sung by John MacCormack. Pubns.: The Ulster Folk (poems), 1912; Old-World Ballads (poems), 1913; Love-Sonnets (poems), 1914; Modern Anglo-Irish Verse (anthology), edited, 1914; Ireland: A Song of Hope (poems), 1917; The Poems of Sean MacEntee, edited, 1917; Ulster Songs and Ballads (poems), 1920. Recns.: chess, the study of the origin of balladry, collecting old peasant songs and tunes. Address: Dublin-22 Nassau Street; Belfast-124 Donegall Street. Tel., Belfast, 3288. Club: The Co. Antrim Yacht, Whitehead.