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Francis
Ledwidge Museum & War Memorial Centre
The museum is the cottage
birthplace of World War I poet, Francis E Ledwidge.
It is a perfect example of a 19th century farm
labourer's cottage and was purchased and restored
by the Francis Ledwidge Museum Committee in 1981.
Dr Benedict Kiely opened it as a museum in June
1982.
It
houses the poet's works and artefacts from World
War I, alongside memorabilia of the period.
It's
millennium exhibition portrays the poet's life
in picture and text from his birth in the cottage
to his death at the third battle of Ypres, Belgium,
in July 1917.
In
the beautiful and tranquil garden
to the rear of the museum stands a replica of
the original monument commissioned and erected
by the City of Ieper, Belgium, at the exact spot
where the poet was killed on 31st July 1917.
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