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One of our early dreams was a Castle of the Heroes. It was to be in the middle of a lake, a shrine of Irish tradition where only those who had dedicated their lives to Ireland might penetrate; they were to be brought there in a painted boat across the lake and might only stay for short periods of rest and inspiration. It was to be built of Irish stone and decorated only with the Four Jewels of the Tuatha de Danaan,1 with perhaps a statue of Ireland, if any artist could be found great enough to make one, which we doubted.
Extracted from ‘Yeats and Ireland’, Scattering Branches, cd. Stephen Gwynn (London: Macmillan, 1940) pp. 15–34.
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Gonne, M. (1977). Castle of the Heroes. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02995-2_21
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