The Autograph Tree

Unknown photographer

Autograph Tree at Coole Park

Undated

Courtesy of Colin Smythe

The walled garden at Coole remains little changed, and the copper beech "autograph tree" on which Gregory invited some of her famous guests to carve their initials still flourishes, though now there is a fence around it to deter contemporary additions. Those whose initials are visible include Shaw, Yeats, Synge, Douglas Hyde, "AE" (George William Russell), O'Casey, and Augustus John.