Word: killanin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord Killanin, an art patron and onetime Fleet Street reporter, suggested that Thoor Ballylee, the Galway castle where Yeats lived for twelve years, should be turned into a Yeats museum. Valentin Iremonger, one of Ireland's leading younger poets, calbd this "pernicious sentimentality." Said Iremonger: "We ought to honor our dead by loving our living, not by erecting a necropolis in the County Galway." Iremonger thought he had a better idea: an occasional monetary award for deserving poets. Thomas McGreevy, director of Ireland's National Gallery, thought the ideal memorial would be a retreat where poets and scholars...
...last word will probably lie with Ireland's Academy of Letters and the U.S.'s Mr. Kelly, who is known to favor a monument in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. But, snapped Lord Killanin, "statues have a habit of disappearing or being decapitated in Ireland...