AN INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 1865-1939.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 1865-1939

“I AM OF IRELAND” BORN IN DUBLIN ANGLO-IRISH/ PROTESTANT VACATIONS IN SLIGO (ON WEST COAST) IRISH SENATOR FOR 6 YEARS MEMBER OF SINN FEIN (HOME RULE!) MEMBER OF IRA (Irish Republican Army) FOUNDER OF DUBLIN’S ABBEY THEATRE

YEATS COUNTRY

WHAT YEATS KNEW World Literature - especially British & European World Mythology - especially Celtic & Greek Theatre - playwright, owner/manager of the Abbey Theatre Art - especially painting & sculpture World History - especially ancient Great Religions of the World The Occult & Astrology Eclectic Thinker

SINN FEIN! HOME RULE FOR IRELAND BRITS OUT OF IRELAND POLITICAL ARM OF THE IRA UNDERGROUND UPRISINGS EASTER, 1916

MEET MAUD GONNE

THE MAN & HIS MASKS

" I WILL ARISE AND GO NOW "

The Tower 1500’s - Normans Thoor Ballylee Purchased 1917 Georgie Hyde-Lees Anne & Michael Coole Park Lady Gregory The Tower,1928 The Tower

NOBEL PRIZE - 1923

YEATS’S EPITAPH “Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by!” (1865 – 1939)

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