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Benbulbin's northern side on a cloudy day. / 54.367°N 8.467°W / 54.367; -8.467. Benbulbin ( Irish: Binn Ghulbain ), [1] sometimes Benbulben or Ben Bulben, is a large flat-topped nunatak [2] rock formation in County Sligo, Ireland. It is part of the Dartry Mountains, in an area sometimes called " Yeats Country".
W. B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist. W. B. Yeats was his brother. [1] Butler's early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906. [2] His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of ...
The Institute of Technology, Sligo ( ITS; Irish: Institiúid Teicneolaíochta, Sligeach) was an institute of technology, located in Sligo, Ireland. In April 2022, it was formally dissolved, and its functions became part of Atlantic Technological University (ATU). [2] As of 2021, the institute had three faculties and nine departments.
Yeats indicated in a note that it was "an attempt to reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman in the village of Ballisodare, County Sligo, who often sings them to herself." The "old song" may have been the ballad "The Rambling Boys of Pleasure" which contains the following verse:
The Model, home of the Niland Collection, formerly called Model Arts and Niland Gallery, is a contemporary arts centre and gallery space in Sligo, Ireland. The gallery houses several exhibition spaces focusing on contemporary art and education activities, a cinema/venue for concerts, an artist-in-residence programme, and a collection of 20th ...
Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance: And when the folk there spy me, They will all come up to me, With 'Here is the fiddler of Dooney!'. And dance like a wave of the sea. -W.B. Yeats. "The Fiddler of Dooney" is a poem by William Butler Yeats first published in 1892.
William Butler Yeats, William A. Scott. Thoor Ballylee Castle ( Irish Túr Bhaile Uí Laí) is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as Yeats' Tower because it was once owned and inhabited by the poet William Butler Yeats .
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