Elegant period home with shades of Yeats’s faeries

WB Yeats’s poetry and fantastical visions were greatly inspired by time spent visiting cousins in Avena House, Ballisodare, as a child, writes Conor Murphy

Avena House in Ballisodare, Co Sligo

Almost eight decades on from his death, WB Yeats remains everywhere to be found in Sligo. All manner of Yeats festivals and events take place throughout the year, and plaques with snippets of ...