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PEOPLE; Yeats' Dublin home in danger.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20000126
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A group of academics and writers is appealing to Dublin authorities to keep poet William Butler Yeats' last home in Ireland from being demolished.

A developer who bought Riversdale House in suburban Dublin, where Yeats lived off and on from 1933 until his death in 1939, is seeking permission to raze it and build an apartment complex.

The group, led by Yeats biographer Terence Brown, says the government should purchase the picturesque cottage and meld it into plans to develop an Irish Academy for the Performing Arts.

References to Riversdale's wildlife and views of the ...

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