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Yeats family sell up in Dalkey after 56 years
Address:Cliff House, 101 Coliemore Road, Dalkey
Price:€2,500,000
Agent:Sherry FitzGerald
“I loved the house from the time we moved in. We couldn’t believe our luck,” says Caitríona Yeats of Cliff House, the home she grew up in. Caitríona, daughter of Michael and Gráinne Yeats, and granddaughter of WB Yeats, was 10 years old when the family moved into their new home in Dalkey, Co Dublin, in 1961.
She remembers a happy childhood playing in the house and large garden near the top of Coliemore Road. Her father Michael, a Fianna Fáil senator, one-time Cathaoirleach of the Seanad, MEP and first Irish vice-president of the European Parliament, died in 2007 and mother Gráinne, a harpist, in 2013.
All their surviving children live abroad and now Cliff House, a Regency house built in 1825, is for sale by private treaty through Sherry FitzGerald for €2.5 million. Its name comes from the granite rock on which the house is built.
The distinctive deep pink house will be familiar to anyone who has walked from Dalkey down Coliemore Road: it’s just outside the village on the corner of Rockfort Avenue, with a long, carefully-tended lawn sloping up to the front door.
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Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society
Happy new year from all at Thoor Ballylee!
100th anniversary of Yeats’s Nobel Prize
Another successful year has come to a close at Yeats’s tower. In 2023 we welcomed over 4,000 visitors, guided forty tour groups, and held numerous events to commemorate the centenary of W.B. Yeats’s Nobel Prize.
Nobel Words
On the eve of Culture Night, in September, Thoor Ballylee hosted the Premier of ‘Nobel Words’ a one-act play by Board member, Peggy Monahan. The play was met with a rapturous response, and went on to perform at Gort Town Hall and Yeats Society Sligo.
Culture Night
On Culture Night we threw open the doors to an evening of music by the fireside, from Eileen Fleming, Frank Hall and Peter Brazier.
Poetry Competition
This summer, a major new poetry competition marked the 100th anniversary of Yeats’s Nobel Prize. Launched on his birthday, the award attracted hundreds of entrants from around the world. Guest of honour Caitriona Yeats, granddaughter of W.B. Yeats, presented the prizes. The winners were Catherine Phil MacCarthy with first prize, Kitty Donnelly, with second prize, and Breda Joyce with third prize.
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Biodiversity at Thoor
A Biodiversity project continues under the guidance of
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Who rests down Yeats’s grave? French noncompulsory sending alter WB Playwright skeleton
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