Sligo with Ken and Nancy

This last week our good friends from home, Ken and Nancy, came over to Ireland. We met them for a few days in Sligo, just south of Donegal.

 

 Sligo is noted as the home and burial site of the poet W.B. Yeats, Ireland's most famous poet.  Everywhere there were reminders: Yeats Inn, Yeats Park, Yeats Pub.

       The Cradle Song

The angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the wimpering dead.
God's laughing in Heaven
To see you so good;
The Sailing Seven
Are gay with His mood.
I sigh that kiss you,
For I must own
That I shall miss you
When you have grown.
 

Sligo, like much of Ireland, is varied in its landscape and history. There was much to see:

 

 

 

And the place we've got our eye on: