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Thread #4131   Message #22058
Posted By: Martin Ryan
23-Feb-98 - 11:50 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Isle of Innisfree (Richard Farrelly)
Subject: RE: ISLE OF INNISHFREE
Wolfgang
In the song "Innisfree" is used as a name for Ireland. Yeats was referring (at least on one level) to a specific island in one of the Sligo lakes, as far as I remember.
Regards
p.s You might sometimes hear:
"I will arise and go now - and go where there's Guinness free"!