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Along the right lines Bruce Holmes goes in search of the Irish towns and countryside that so inspired WB Yeats

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050109
Author:Bruce Holmes

The door opened quietly and I stepped into a realm full of ghosts. Here, in the rooms of the Dublin Writers' Museum, is a history of Ireland's literary past. There are early or first editions of Gulliver's Travels, Dracula, Waiting for Godot and others, and Ireland's greatest writers are represented here, among them James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, J M Synge, Samuel Beckett, Lady Augusta Gregory and W B Yeats. The literary bric-a-brac includes Beckett's telephone, Mary Lavin's teddy bear and the opera glasses of Yeats' friend, Lady Gregory.

On this visit to Ireland, though, I was only ...

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