Our first stop today was the Cliffs of Moher, which don't have any literary significance, but they're too spectacular to leave off the itinerary. (Actually, Dr. Ward reports that these are the Cliffs of Insanity in The Princess Bride, so I guess there's some cultural importance.) Pictured here are Jade and Kristen.

In the afternoon, we visited Thoor Ballylee, or the Ballylee Tower, an old Norman "tower house" that W. B. Yeats lived in from 1919 to 1929. The whole gang posed for a photo. Many of Yeats' later poems were written here, and some even feature the tower house itself. We dodged two bus loads of Italian high schoolers, but made it out and on to Coole Park, the estate of Lady Gregory. The "big house" itself was burned in the Irish Civil War, but the grounds are extensive, and we had the traditional reading of Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole" on the banks of Lough Coole.