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William Butler Yeats
Taken 6/3/02 (note the rose BTW)
Birth: Jun. 13, 1865
Death: Jan. 28, 1939
Poet, Playwright. Irish nationalist who successfully agitated to develop Irish literature and culture. Amongst his most famous poems are those relating to the 1916 Easter Rising. Admirer of Maud Gonne, but at the age of 52 married the 15-year old Georgie. Became a Senator of Irish Free State. Nobel Prize for Literature 1923. In the twenties and thirties his politics took him well to the right. Died in France. The epitaph on his grave is his own.
Drumcliff Churchyard
Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland.
(Data from http://www.findagrave.com/)
Taken 6/3/02 (note the rose BTW)
Birth: Jun. 13, 1865
Death: Jan. 28, 1939
Poet, Playwright. Irish nationalist who successfully agitated to develop Irish literature and culture. Amongst his most famous poems are those relating to the 1916 Easter Rising. Admirer of Maud Gonne, but at the age of 52 married the 15-year old Georgie. Became a Senator of Irish Free State. Nobel Prize for Literature 1923. In the twenties and thirties his politics took him well to the right. Died in France. The epitaph on his grave is his own.
Drumcliff Churchyard
Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland.
(Data from http://www.findagrave.com/)
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