The Fiddler of Dooney

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  • Yeats and Sligo




Another Yeats' poem which calls up familiar Sligo places is 'The Fiddler of Dooney' :
 

"When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,

Folk dance like a wave of the sea;

My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet,

My brother in Mocharabuiee."