Before and after: Flood waters badly damage former home of William Butler Yeats
Thoor Ballylee at Gort in County Galway renovated last year at a cost of €70,000
Maud Gonne autobiography fetches €5,200 in Yeats auction
Funds to be used for WB Yeats’s old summer home at Thoor Ballylee in south Galway
Grand plans for WB Yeats’s ‘invincible tower’ at Gort
The 15th-century Norman tower Thoor Ballylee was home to the poet and his family for 12 years. An auction is planned to raise funds to turn it into a cultural centre
Behind the News: Fidelma Healy Eames, WB Yeats devotee
A big donation this week means that Thoor Ballylee, the 16th-century tower house once owned by the poet, will reopen this summer, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth
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