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Yeats’s Grave
In July and August 2005, I spent two weeks in Ireland. Most of it was with a tour group via a public radio station, before I stayed at a Dublin hostel for three days.
This morning, from my bay window, I saw a beautiful short-haired white cat patrolling the BB grounds.
On the bus:
We see a castle off in the distance, on a hill. According to Dave the tour guide it’s probably an 18th or 19th century English castle, not fortified and Irish — Cromwell would have torn it down. So it’s gothic revival. [I guess that means Cromwell would have torn it down in this part of Ireland, since older castles like Blarney and Bunratty are still standing.]
Ah, the plot thickens. Countess Markievicz lived there during the late Georgian era, 1830s [which is also called part of the Romantic Era… but she couldn’t have lived in that era, because she wasn’t born yet — she lived from 1868 to 1927]. She was the first woman elected to the Irish House of Commons. Yeats was a regular visitor, and we’re visiting his grave today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz
[The “castle” we saw may have been Lissadell House, though looking at photos on Wikipedia, I see it was a Georgian manor house — neo-classical rather than gothic.