Drumcliffe, County Sligo, Ireland 2023
The great Irish poet, writer and dramatist is buried in Drumcliffe, County Sligo, Ireland. He was one of the foremost figures of 20th Century literature. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. The epitaph comes from his poem "Under Ben Bulben", the flat-topped mountain pictured below. Yeats had a deep love of this area and asked to be "planted in Sligo" after first being buried in France after his death in 1939
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