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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.

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.

YEATS' TOWER at Thoor Ballylee, near Gort, is the setting for an exhibition and literary event, The Roots Of Your Refuge, where eight Galway poets, writers, and visual artists explore the theme of sanctuary.

Two remarkable women, overshadowed by two remarkable brothers, were remembered on Sunday at the opening of The Studio, a meeting and workplace for artists and craftspeople, at Thoor Ballylee, in south Galway.

A NEW work by the Irish sound artist and composer, Francis Heery, commissioned by the Galway County Council, will be performed in Yeats' Castle, Thoor Ballylee, Gort, on Friday September 21 for Culture Night.

As part of its drive to fund the continued opening of Thoor Ballylee, the Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society hosts “Yeats’ Women “ an evening of music, poetry and drama in Thoor Ballylee on Friday July 8 at 8pm.