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Longing for the Lake Isle of Innisfree?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    The twain in Spain stays mainly in the Hotel Cristina Reina.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Streetview
  • Suck Diesel said:
    A few moments later

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    At Algeciras -- A Meditation upon Death
    William Butler Yeats

    “The heron-billed pale cattle-birds
    That feed on some foul parasite
    Of the Moroccan flocks and herds
    Cross the narrow Straits to light
    In the rich midnight of the garden trees
    Till the dawn break upon those mingled seas.

    Often at evening when a boy
    Would I carry to a friend -
    Hoping more substantial joy
    Did an older mind commend -
    Not such as are in Newton's metaphor,
    But actual shells of Rosses' level shore.

    Greater glory in the Sun,
    An evening chill upon the air,
    Bid imagination run
    Much on the Great Questioner;
    What He can question, what if questioned I
    Can with a fitting confidence reply”

    Algeciras, 1929
  • Suck Diesel said:
    In November 1927, an aging W.B. Yeats travelled to Algeciras, Spain, alongside his wife George Yeats and their friend Jean Hall. At this point in his life, Yeats was 62 years old and severely ill, suffering from a breakdown in health that brought him remarkably close to dying. [1] (catalogue.nli.ie), [2] (thestoneandthestar.blogspot.com)Seeking a warmer climate to convalesce, he stayed at the famous Hotel Reina Cristina. From the hotel’s lush Spanish gardens, Yeats could look out across the narrow Straits of Gibraltar toward the coast of Morocco. This stark geographic boundary—where only a narrow slip of water separates two entirely different continents—became a powerful spatial metaphor for the fragile boundary between life and death

Oh Happy Day

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    27 June 1928 was a Wednesday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    11 Beau Street, Waterford now has a red front door and a matching red car ...
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  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Very jaunty!
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Marriage of Letitia Lumley of 11 Beau St. and William Power, Civic Guard, of Urlingford

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    “..The bride is Lettie Lumley and groom is Billy Power..... In the pic is Thomas and Josie Lumley, Madge Lumley (Corcoran) and Joe Lumley... Baby is Emily Cahill (Hanley) and girl holding her is May Douglas..”

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Stand by my man - and he'll stand by me!

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  • 13 older comments, and then…
  • clive422 said:
    Look at how sharply pressed those trousers are! A great portrait.
  • John Spooner said:
    By 1952, a Matthew L. Nugent was living at 34 St. Andrews Terrace. He was fined 2s 6d for driving without a valid licence. It had expired 11 days previously. (New Ross Standard 28/3/1952).

    That's 2 years trimmed off the end date (unless he was a lodger or somesuch). Or Miss O'Driscoll married Mr Nugent.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    POOLEWP 4417 is 31st July 1943

    POOLEWP 4410 is 12th May 1943
  • Aristide Mazzarella said:
    👍
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The woman in the picture is wearing a wedding ring, not Miss O'Driscoll