William Butler Yeats
County Sligo: Yeats' Country

Land of Heart's Desire for Yeats (Yeats)


Surely, if fairies do live, they hide in lush forest by this cool brook. Here at the waterfall at Glen-Car, Yeats was inspired to write "The Stolen Child."


Ross's Point in the bay at Sligo; the statue pays tribute to all of the seamen lost at sea.

Thoor Ballylee, County Galway: Yeats's summer house where he took his family duing the early 1920s. Many references in his later poetry


Photo by Sharron Riesberg
A creek runs through the Yeats property. Here a milk cow on her way back to pasture after her morning milking stops for a cool, refreshing drink.

In Sligo near the Yeats Buliding, visiters are amused by this bronze of Yeats. Look closely to see lines from his poetry smartly engraved.
The church in Drumcliffe where Yeats is buried.

First buried in France where he died in 1939, Yeats was later moved to this church at Drumcliffe in 1948.

The Yeats Building, home of the Yeats Society and Sligo Art Gallery

 

Read "The Stolen Child"

 

Favorite Links for W. B. Yeatsand his Irish Home land:

Hidden Ireland: A guide to Irish Fairies

The Changeling Child

A Timeline of Irish History

Thoor Ballylee: Yeat's Summer home. A great site with good history and pictures

Yeats Society home page

William Butler Yeats Biography

 

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