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Excitement is building at Thoor Ballylee as their longstanding mill wheel project finally comes onstream, with a launch event planned for Saturday 24 May at 2pm.

The cream of Dublin’s spoken word poetry scene will bring their craft to Thoor Ballylee, near Gort, on Saturday, May 10, 7.30pm.

Offering a visitor experience like no other, Thoor Ballylee is a 14th century Hiberno-Norman tower that once was the home of one of the greatest literary figures in Irish history, W.B. Yeats.

The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society, in partnership with the Galway Culture Company, is hosting an Artist-in-Residence programme this summer at Thoor Ballylee, W.B. Yeats’s summer home near Gort, County Galway.

Thoor Ballylee will be a hive of activity during Heritage Week with a series of events being held to illuminate aspects of Hidden Ireland and long-gone crafts.

The Yeats Thoor Ballylee International Poetry Prize has been launched at the iconic south Galway tower house to mark the centenary of WB Yeats’ Nobel Prize for Literature.

The castle home of WB Yeats was the location for the launch of a major new poetry competition to mark the 100th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the renowned Irish poet.

The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society is delighted to announce that it will reopen the doors to visitors – after a two-year closure – on Easter Saturday April 16.

A CHANCE meeting in the Burren revives happy and sad memories for two old friends, leading to a lively conclusion.

This year Thoor Ballylee, the Galway home of poet laureate WB Yeats, will come alive for a ‘Wild Child’ celebration on August 18 for National Heritage Week.