1. AN INTRODUCTION TO
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

2. “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

3. YEATS COUNTRY

4. 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

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

6. MEET MAUD GONNE

7. THE MAN & HIS MASKS

8. " I WILL ARISE AND GO NOW "

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

10. NOBEL PRIZE

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