Yeats' Portrait
Signed photograph of the poet, William Butler Yeats, 1904
Copyright Sligo County Library.Yeats' Portrait
Copyright Sligo County Library.
Copyright Sligo County Library.
Yeats' Portrait
Signed photograph of the poet, William Butler Yeats, 1904
Copyright Sligo County Library.In 1867, when W.B. Yeats was two years old, the Yeats family emigrated to London from their home in Sandymount in Dublin.
For the next fourteen years, Yeats spent long summer holidays with his grandfather in Sligo.
In 'Towards Break of Day', he remembers Glencar Waterfall:
I thought: "There is a waterfall
Upon Ben Bulben side
That all my childhood counted dear"