William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)
Irish poet and playwright
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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
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William Butler Yeats 13 June 1865 Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland
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| Died |
28 January 1939 (aged 73) Menton, France
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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Constance Markiewicz · Friend · 1868-1927 · Irish nationalist, suffragist, socialist, politician, and revolutionary
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