Remembering a violent incident at Coole Park
Galway Advertiser, November 27, 2008.
By Kernan Andrews
IN MAY 1921, Margaret Gregory, widow of Lady Gregory’s son Robert, was the sole survivor of an IRA ambush at Ballyturn House, near Coole Park.
Four people were killed - two British Officers, a Captain Blake, the local police commander, and his pregnant wife. The incident received little attention in works devoted to Yeats or Lady Gregory, but remains in local memory.
The writer Michael O’Loughlin will examine this incident and its repercussions in the talk entitled An Accident At The Gates Of Coole tonight at 8pm in Coole Park.
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