- Riversdale
Riversdale was the last home of
William Butler Yeats . It is located in theDublin suburb ofRathfarnham off the Ballyboden Road.W. B. Yeats
He took a 13-year lease on the house in
1932 . He lived there with his wife and children. It was at Riversdale that he mourned forLady Gregory after her death, that he had his last meeting withMaud Gonne (1938 ) and that he met with Irishfascist Eoin O'Duffy .Two of his poems, "What Then?" and "An Acre Of Grass" are about Riversdale.
Recent developments
Developers bought the house the late 1990s and applied for planning persmission to build "60 High Quality Residential Units" on the site. As a result of action by local residents, the planning permission was refused.
Eventually the developers succeeded in getting planning permission for three four-bedroom luxury detached homes and a three single storey two-bedroom mews-type houses.
External links
* [http://www.macauc.com/newDevelopments/riversdale/index.htm Macarthy's Auctioneers Riversdale page] - note this page refers to the original planning application. The completed development was significantly different.
* [http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/commercialproperty/2003/0910/3235059262CPYEATSHOUSE.html Irish Times article on Riversdale at time of its sale]
* [http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/yeats_wb.htm University of Delaware Library's WB Yeats page] - The University of Delaware has correspondence of Yeats' from Riversdale.
* [http://research.umbc.edu/~mccready/yeats2.html Yeats Chronology] - Mentions Riversdale in passing.
* [http://www.irish-architecture.com/news/2000/000133.htm Article in Irish Architecture on Riversdale] - This article refers to a planning permission which was later revoked. The final development was significantly different.
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