THE IRISH TIMES: Yeats collection should belong to the nation

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Last week, I was visited by a Chilean friend who had just returned from a trip home to his family. He brought me a souvenir, a tile engraved with the image of a fish and a compass, which he had bought at the Pablo Neruda House in Isla Negra, near Valparaiso. While there he had also taken a photograph looking out from Neruda’s desk at the beach and Pacific breakers, a sight which offered a clarifying sense of this poet who lived facing the elements.

Period15 Sept 2017

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  • TitleYeats collection should belong to the nation
    Media name/outletThe Irish Times
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryIreland
    Date15/09/17
    DescriptionLast week, I was visited by a Chilean friend who had just returned from a trip home to his family. He brought me a souvenir, a tile engraved with the image of a fish and a compass, which he had bought at the Pablo Neruda House in Isla Negra, near Valparaiso. While there he had also taken a photograph looking out from Neruda’s desk at the beach and Pacific breakers, a sight which offered a clarifying sense of this poet who lived facing the elements.
    URLhttps://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/yeats-collection-should-belong-to-the-nation-1.3221473
    PersonsJohn Mcauliffe

Keywords

  • W B Yeats
  • writing
  • poetry
  • Irish culture
  • Irish heritage