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Lady Gregory's influential 1902 book 'Cuchulain of Muirthemne' is a landmark achievement of the Irish Literary Revival. What unique literary approach did she take to create this volume?

  1. She wove fragmented Old Irish manuscripts into one narrative in Kiltartan Hiberno-English.
  2. She wrote original adventures about ancient warriors under a traditional pseudonym.
  3. She translated French neoclassical plays, recasting the characters as Irish deities.
  4. She transcribed Dublin tenement dwellers' oral stories into high academic English prose.
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Correct answer: She wove fragmented Old Irish manuscripts into one narrative in Kiltartan Hiberno-English.

Before Lady Gregory's work, ancient Irish epics were primarily available only in dense, academic linguistic translations. By rendering the stories into 'Kiltartan English'—the dialect spoken by rural people in Galway—she gave the myths a lyrical, living quality that felt genuinely native. W.B. Yeats famously praised the volume as the best book to have come out of Ireland in his lifetime.

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