They had met earlier for lunch and Yeats had left to visit his wife George and newborn daughter in the nursing home in Fitzwilliam Street, as he had done every afternoon since her birth.

Why? Because he had promised George Yeats he would keep details of their married life unpublished until after her death. The following extracts from' Yeats: The Man and the Masks' (1st ed ...

“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was ...