Rockport School, Co. Down: Willoughby Weaving the Forgotten War Poet

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Willoughby Weaving, a poet and educator, was working as a teacher at Rockport School in Holywood, County Down when the Great War began. He applied for and gained a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Rifles but his war career didn’t last long and in 1915 he was released from the army on grounds of ill-health. He returned to teach at Rockport and later published numerous volumes of poetry. Although poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke are famous the world over for their poems about the Great War, Willoughby Weaving represents one of those poets who have fallen through the cracks of history and remains largely unknown. Location: Rockport School, Holywood Co. Down. BT18 0DD Image: Willoughby Weaving Image courtesy of Rockport School