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Extract from the Doorus Travel Guides:
In addition to all its other attractions, this part of south Galway is closely associated with the poetry of the literary revival group of Yeats, Lady Gregory, AE and Douglas Hyde; it was in what is now the An ige hostel in
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(out on the peninsula four miles northwest of Kinvarra) that the idea of a national theatre was first discussed - later to become the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The hostel was then the home of Count Florimond de Basterot, who entertained and encouraged the group (and also the likes of Guy de Maupassant and Paul Bourget); it's easy to appreciate how the group's romantic nationalist and artistic sensibilities wer...
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