Sligo Abbey - the Fires and the Shadows

Irish history is full of terrifying and violent events - invasions, battles, raids, enslavement, pestilence, famines,  pillages, blood and thunder. The Dominican Friary of the Holy Cross in the heart of Sligo town has seen all of the above.

Under bare Ben Bulben's head: in Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo

...lies the final resting place of William Butler Yeats, one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Four months before he died he wrote the famous poem 'Under Ben Bulben', describing the graveyard at Drumcliffe as his chosen burial place. That's where he wanted to return to: the place of childhood memories.

 

Drumcliffe graveyard