coole park
Into the Seven Woods of William Butler Yeats
Afternoon sun streams through the Seven Woods of County Galway’s Coole Park, immortalized in the prose of Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats, one of Ireland’s literary icons of the 20th Century. The Seven Woods...
Red Gate at Coole Estate, County Galway, Ireland
A red gate accessorizes a carefully hewn stone wall at the Coole Park Estate of Lady Gregory, the Irish dramatist and folklorist who opened her home and spectacular parklands in County Galway, Ireland, to...
Coole Park Pathway into Irish Literary History
This 19th Century stairway in Coole Park, near Gort in County Galway, Ireland, leads to a woodland path walked by some of the most influential figures in Irish Literary History. W.B. Yeats and George...
Mossy Rock Fence in Yeats’ Seven Woods of Coole Park
If a rolling stone gathers no moss, this stone fence clearly has remained rooted for many years in the “Seven Woods” of Coole Park, County Galway, Ireland. Many of the great writers and poets...
In the footsteps of William Butler Yeats at Coole Park
A path, laiden with remnants of bygone autumn, graciously invites visitors to pass along a carpet of Spring greenery as ivy-laced sentinels stand guard in Coole Park, County Galway, Ireland. Once the estate of...
