Ireland - Connaught
Lissadell Estate
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Lissadell, Co. Sligo, Ireland |
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Lissadell is the home of the Gore-Booth sisters with whom Yeats was friendly. The 1830s Greek Revival-style house is full of curiosities and quite a sight to behold, but in need of an injection of capital to prevent its decay. While the sisters belonged to the landed gentry, Eva went on to become a poet and an important member of the suffragette movement. Constance was a commander in the 1916 uprising and the first elected female Labour Party M.P. Sir Henry Gore-Booth went off with his butler to explore the Antarctic in the 1880s. The bear that the butler shot is on the stairs. (Open intermittently, usually Jun–Sep, closed Sun, tel: 071 63150.)
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