This sixteenth volume of the Coole Edition contains Lady Gregory’s first writings on Ireland. They include the two surviving versions of her unpublished first attempt at autobiography, ‘An Emigrant’s Note Book’ (1883); three short stories she wrote under the pseudonym ‘Angus Grey’ —’A Philanthropist’, ‘A Gentleman’ and ‘Peeler Astore’ (1890-91); and her anonymously-issued anti-Home Rule pamphlet A Phantom’s Pilgrimage, or Home Ruin (1893). Appendices contain her lyric ‘Alas, a woman may not love’ (1886) and the poems she sent to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt following his imprisonment in Galway in 1888 for participating in a banned tenant protest against evictions. Also included is the newly-rediscovered text of Sir William Gregory’s prescient 1881 pamphlet on the Land League. James Pethica's introduction sets these works within their biographical,political and creative contexts and explores the aspirations driving Lady Gregory's efforts as a writer. This collection sheds light on her marriage, early widowhood and the foundational influence of Sir William Gregory on her political views and self-conception as a landowner and details the course of her turn to Irish themes and to the life of the Galway world she had grown up in for suject matter.