Holzer, a New Yorkbased ghost-hunter, arrived in Ireland in 1965 to write a study of Irish spectres, eventually published under the title The Lively Ghosts of Ireland. I know all this because Hans Holzer said so and he should know. Subsequently, guests complained of a presence in Room 27 of the Renvyle House Hotel one female guest testified that she was watched by the spectral figure of a man while putting on her make-up. Yeats, who stayed there as a guest of Oliver St John Gogarty and conducted a number of seances on the premises at one time he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of a dead child. Burned down by Republican sympathisers in the early part of the century and subsequently rebuilt, its guests have included W.B. Renvyle, the former home of the Gogarty family, has a colourful history. In fact, depending on your ability to suspend disbelief, it may have more than one ghost. It's not something of which everyone is aware, but the Renvyle House Hotel in Co Galway has a resident ghost.
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