Headstone of ' self penned epitaph 'Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by', Drumcliff, Sligo, N. Ireland
Headstone of the Irish poet ' self penned epitaph 'Cast a cold Eye On Life, on , pass by' in in the Protestant churchyard of St. Columba’s Church in Drumcliff, County Sligo, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. ( the stone was chosen by Yeats himself ). Yeats was born in Dublin into an artistic family. His father John B. Yeats was a painter and so was his brother Jack B. Yeats. Yeats himself studied at the Dublin School of Art, but at the age of 21 he abandoned art in favour of a literary career.
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Location: St. Columba’s Church, N15, Drumcliff, County Sligo, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Europe
Photo credit: © Mieneke Andeweg-van Rijn / Alamy / Afripics
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