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Sat 07 Jul 2010Where Yeats's dreams took wing
Leonard Cohen will be in the company of some great literary and political ghosts when he takes to the stage at Lissadell this weekend...
In late November 1894 Yeats made the first of a number of memorable visits to Lissadell House, ancestral home of the Gore-Booth family. For someone of his modest Anglo-Irish background, the invitation to stay in one of Ireland’s most impressive neo-classical Ascendancy houses marked his arrival as a poet of distinction on the national scene.
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