In Yeats’s Home County, No One Seems To Care

“The threat of demolition hangs over one former family home, there is a proposal to divert the flow of a river in the grounds of another, his great-grandfather’s rectory at Drumcliffe is long gone and the Yeats Society has repeatedly complained about the lack of signposts and plaques to pinpoint other locations immortalised by the man who penned the slogan ‘land of heart’s desire’ about the Co Sligo landscape.”