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Seamus Heaney reading The Wild Swans at Coole in 1982
Poet Seamus Heaney visits Coole Park which was the home of Lady Augusta Gregory, a close friend of WB Yeats with whom he co-founded the Abbey Theatre.
Yeats used to often visit her house and grounds at Coole Park and wrote several poems inspired by it.
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