Racontour Archive 2008 - 2019
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<div>Covering the years 2008 - 2019. Watch this archive expand in 2022 as we remix and update our audio material from these years. All we ask is that you share these clips on social media if you enjoyed them. </div>
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August 11, 2022
S1 Ep9: D1 YC Parkes Castle and Wild Rose waterbus
<div>Non Yeats POI: Parkes Castle. GPS location <a href="http://www.google.com/maps/place/54.264611,%20-8.33396%20">54.264611, -8.33396 </a><br> <br> A restored plantation castle of the early 17th century, picturesquely situated on the shores of Lough Gill, once the home of Robert Parke and his family. The Courtyard grounds contain evidence of an earlier 16th century Tower House structure once owned by Sir Brian O'Rourke who subsequently was executed at Tyburn, London in 1591. The Castle has been restored using Irish oak and traditional craftsmanship. Access for visitors with disabilities to ground floor. <br> <br> Next to the castle is the Wild Rose waterbus which takes you out on Lough Gill. George McGoldrick is your affable host on this one hour trip. It sails daily at 12.30, 3.30, 4.30 and 6.30, but check in advance lest there be a change of plan - Mobile:<a href="tel:+353872598869">+353872598869</a><br> <br> Opening Hours:<br> 9th April - 30th Sept: Daily 10.00 - 18.00<br> Last admission 45 minutes before closing <br> Average Length of Visit: 1 Hour<br> <br> DIRECTIONS: This is the last proper stop off on Day One of the tour. If heading back in to Sligo, take a left after the car park and we'll have some poetry for you along the way.</div>
August 11, 2022
S1 Ep8: D1 YC Dromahair
<div>Non Yeats P.O.I. Dromahair. GPS location <a href="http://www.google.com/maps/place/54.220799,%20-8.297467">54.220799, -8.297467</a><br> <br> Dromahair lies in the hilly north west of Leitrim amid some stunning unspoiled natural landscapes. The "Sleeping Giant" mountain formation (comprising Keelogyboy, Leean and Benbo) is visible on approaches to the village, as is Lough Gill below the Slieve Dae?ne and Killerry mountain.<br> <br> The village itself is also idyllic, located on the banks of the River Bonet, which flows into Lough Gill. Much of Dromahair was modelled on a village in Somerset by the Earl of Leitrim, and the central streetscape still follows the pattern set down by him.<br> <br> Looking for a good lunch before getting the waterbus in the afternoon? Try the The Riverbank Restaurant. Stay on the R287 by taking a right coming into Dromahair - the restaurant is on the left and is marked on the map. It has a full licence and is open from Friday to Sunday. Evening meals are from 6.30 pm to 10 pm and Sunday Lunch from 12.30 to 3.00 <a href="http://pm.Bar">pm.Bar</a> Food is Served, daily from 12.30 to 9pm<br> <br> The poem Sean quotes in the audio piece is from Yeats's 1893 collection, The Rose: -<br> <br> The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland<br> <br> He stood among a crowd at Dromahair;<br> His heart hung all upon a silken dress,<br> And he had known at last some tenderness,<br> Before earth took him to her stony care;<br> But when a man poured fish into a pile,<br> It Seemed they raised their little silver heads,<br> And sang what gold morning or evening sheds<br> Upon a woven world-forgotten isle<br> Where people love beside the ravelled seas;<br> That Time can never mar a lover's vows<br> Under that woven changeless roof of boughs:<br> The singing shook him out of his new ease.</div> <br> <div>He wandered by the sands of Lissadell;<br> His mind ran all on money cares and fears,<br> And he had known at last some prudent years<br> Before they heaped his grave under the hill;<br> But while he passed before a plashy place,<br> A lug-worm with its grey and muddy mouth<br> Sang that somewhere to north or west or south<br> There dwelt a gay, exulting, gentle race<br> Under the golden or the silver skies;<br> That if a dancer stayed his hungry foot<br> It seemed the sun and moon were in the fruit:<br> And at that singing he was no more wise.</div> <br> <div>He mused beside the well of Scanavin,<br> He mused upon his mockers: without fail<br> His sudden vengeance were a country tale,<br> When earthy night had drunk his body in;<br> But one small knot-grass growing by the pool<br> Sang where - unnecessary cruel voice -<br> Old silence bids its chosen race rejoice,<br> Whatever ravelled waters rise and fall<br> Or stormy silver fret the gold of day,<br> And midnight there enfold them like a fleece<br> And lover there by lover be at peace.<br> The tale drove his fine angry mood away.</div> <br> <div>He slept under the hill of Lugnagall;<br> And might have known at last unhaunted sleep<br> Under that cold and vapour-turbaned steep,<br> Now that the earth had taken man and all:<br> Did not the worms that spired about his bones<br> proclaim with that unwearied, reedy cry<br> That God has laid His fingers on the sky,<br> That from those fingers glittering summer runs<br> Upon the dancer by the dreamless wave.<br> Why should those lovers that no lovers miss<br> Dream, until God burn Nature with a kiss?<br> The man has found no comfort in the grave.</div>
August 11, 2022
S1: Welcome to Yeats Country
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