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    4″N 08°46′29.2″W / 53.103167°N 8.774778°W / 53.103167; -8.774778 Thoor Ballylee Castle (Irish Túr Bhaile Uí Laí) is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman...
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  • second poem, refers to Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower which Yeats purchased and restored in 1917. Yeats Gaelicized the name to Thoor Ballyllee, and it has...
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  • in Time of War To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee 1920 in poetry 1920 in literature Thoor Ballylee Wikisource has original text related to this...
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  • in County Galway which Yeats bought and gave it the Gaelicized name Thoor Ballylee castle; Yeats would spend the summers there for about a decade, beginning...
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    general meeting in Ashford Castle. Other locations in the film include Thoor Ballylee, County Galway, home of poet W.B. Yeats for a period, Ballyglunin railway...
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    rejected in 1916. Yeats composed the poem while staying in a tower at Thoor Ballylee during the Anglo-Irish War, two days after Anne's birth on 26 February...
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    Synge, and Lady Margaret Sackville. W. B. Yeats bought a tower house, Thoor Ballylee, from the Gregorys, restored it, and made it his summer residence in...
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  • 1757 The Helix, Glasnevin, Dublin Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin Thoor Ballylee, County Galway Trinity College Dublin Market Houses in the Republic...
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    the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. During 1929, he stayed at Thoor Ballylee near Gort in County Galway (where Yeats had his summer home since 1919)...
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    in turn influenced William Butler Yeats' choice of a poet's tower, Thoor Ballylee. Construction on Tor House continued into the late 1950s and early 1960s...
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