2024

LISSADELL HOUSE

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Yeats fans can go to Lissadel House where the poet stayed several times to write. As you can see from the park's view, now a natural reserve of birds! The building, however, is not a success. Heavy construction of 1830, she turned to the blockhouse. The owner Constance Zou-Booth, who became Countess Markievicz, played an important role in the 1916 uprising and was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. A fate of rebel…

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2024

PATRICK KAVANAGH CENTRE

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Museum dedicated to local history and to Patrick Kavanagh, a great poet and ... Read more
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