European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Connemara seeking Yeats soul in Western Ireland by Howell Raines new York times like Many unreconstructed English major have a weak or is or literary pilgrimages form of travel based on Iho principle thaotho Mijc Nusl be pm is spoken there with Yeats More than with most writers in is necessary to know the country in order to know the Man and his work the lore and place names of his pm Hood territory around county Sligo Lis Sadell. Knock Narca Ben bul non bal Isadare. Inni i fran were Centrallo Hig Early Torso later two places in county Galway Iho gingery family Ozlale Al Coole Park and Yeats s own Cummer Retreat in a medieval Castle called Thor Dally co provided the my elude and physical Symbol Lor the great Poliy of or mid Ilc Yoars inc body of work that Cemon cd Yeal i claim Tor the Nobel pure or lil Calure in 1923 in ,1 Ipi curly Molnr a and i Covo cd she Iua or Yeats landmarks around Galway and Sligo and pct Day Louring the rugged Connemara Peninsula a landscape of Law elemental Beauly that the poet visited Ollyn. Our tour started in count Galway Ratchf than slaying in i Cecily of Wloch has its share of Tounsley Beach Cronl tick Iacini to made our base at Iho Village of ought Erard on Lough Corrie. Bolh Coole Park and Thor Ballynoe Are in the Southern part of county near the Village of Gort 40 Miles from Oug Horard Bui this is great country for casual wandering Manly because of Western Ireland s sparse population the Republic of Ireland has Only Ghoul 3 5 million people and a third of them live in Dublin this moans Hal Rieal tracts of the Countryside remain much As yeah knew it despite lha alarming spread of Bungalow Bleyhl near the towns in general Houvener. Ireland has done a hotter Job of Prola cling the Beauty of its landscape than it has of preserving its architectural heritage in a poor country Hal now has almost 20 percent unemployment there has simply never been much Money for and much has been lost that is truly irreplaceable for example the mansion of Coole Park which was Iho Homo of Yeats s Greal Patron lady Gregory was the most important single place in his creative life. N was also a Fountain hand of Tho Lush literary revival and a Haven Over the years Tor the likes of 3ean o Casky George Bernard Shaw and Manyo Lher writer and pointers. Lolk Slid non i in inn apply shout when deserves the primary blame for the government s decision to allow cools Ilou i. To be pulled Down for Aap in 1941 Don t quote ,-." said one Yeats Fiji Thornty in Iho area hut it was one of those boneheads called Palili Unnur years would have apart Ciales the remark. Political outrage and con Empl for bureaucratic blockheads Vero among his favorite themes so were Joy in the natural world and a Melancholic awareness of the inevitable destruction of Beauly and ceremonial Grace by the impersonal grinding of Hilory. He was always haunted by Iho fear that the literary Retreat created by Augusta Gregory could nol endure. In coot Park 1929, Yeats foresaw with disturbing accuracy the destruction of the House where great or tills like swallows cart and like swallows went and he instructed visitors to inc rums to remember Augusta Gregory Lor her role in inspiring the Irish Renaissance and founding me Abbey theater in Dublin hero. Traveler scholar poet Lake your stand when As these rooms and passages Are gone when nellies wave upon the shapeless Mound and saplings Root among the broken Stone and dedicate. 3 moment s memory to that Laureles head treat tracts of the landscape remain u Yett knew it Page 14 the stars and stripes history in c by Sydney Rubin associated Presse very year Mote than 400,000 people Conrow 1o the museum m he Small Norman Lown d Bayeux France to see is single splendid object a Lapel by Hal leaches the importance of a Promise. The 900 year old Baycu tapestry is an accurate co Toful chronicle of medieval France and an enduring work of Art. To is not. However a tapestry. It is an embroidery. 230 Leet Long and 20 inches High stitched n eight colors on Oyster coloured Inen cloth in an unknown English a Wiki hop Aboul 1080, iwo decades after the events it the figures that dance across the fabric Tell in detail the Story of the Conquest of England. But the Story of the Conquest occupies Linic More than half its length. Vun the Resl devoted to the Promise. The first Par tells of the trip to France try Harold a of Wesse. Of his imprisonment and Rescue by William the Bastard to whom he promised loyally and Aid m gaming the English but when the old English tuesday de
