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Random Facts about him my Mum found for me :)

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Random Facts about him my Mum found for me :)

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In the course of his long life, he became known as the director of the Abbey Theatre as well as a wonderful poet. He is now regarded as the greatest English poet of the century and had been called by Kenneth Allott ' the greatest English poet since Wordsworth'. (Don't get confused here, he is actually Irish, but everyone makes the mistake of saying that he is English)

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(Irish: Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mac Giolla Bhríghde, 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with poet William Butler Yeats. Of Anglo-Irish stock and birth, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of evicted people in the Land Wars. She was also active in Home Rule activities.

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Born:

(1866-12-21)21 December 1866
Tongham, England

Died:

27 April 1953(1953-04-27) (aged 86)
Clonskeagh, Republic of Ireland

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At Galway  Races

The Blessed

The Cap  and Bells

The  Cat and the Moon

Down  by the Salley Gardens

Dream  of a Blessed Spirit

The  Falling of the Leaves

He  Bids His Beloved Be at Peace

He  Mourns for the Change that has Come Upon Him and His Beloved,  and Longs for the End of the World

He  Remembers Forgotten Beauty

He  Wishes His Beloved Were Dead

His Dream

The  Hosting of the Sidhe

The  Host of the Air

The  Indian to His Love

In the  Seven Woods

The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner

Lines  Written in Dejection

The Magi

Men  Improve with the Years

The Moods

No Second  Troy

O  Do Not Love Too Long

The  Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

On  a Political Prisoner

On  Being Asked for a War Poem

Peace

A  Poet to His Beloved

Presences

Reconciliation

Red  Hanrahan's Song about Ireland

The  Rose of the World

The Second  Coming

The  Song of the Happy Shepherd

The  Song of Wandering Aengus

The  Sorrow of Love

These  Are the Clouds

To  a Child Dancing in the Wind

To  an Isle in the Water

To a Shade

To a Young  Girl

To  Ireland in the Coming Times

To Some I Have Talked With by the Fire

To  the Rose Upon the Rood of Time

The Two Trees

The  Unappeasable Host

The  Valley of the Black Pig

When Helen  Lived

When You  Are Old

The White  Birds

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In 1919, war broke out between republican separatists and British Government forces. In 1921, the British Government partitioned Ireland into two semi-autonomous regions: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, co-ordinated by a Council of Ireland. Upon Royal Assent, the Parliament of Northern Ireland came into being in 1921. However, the institutions of Southern Ireland never became functional. On 11 July 1921, a ceasefire was agreed between the separatists and the British Government. Later talks led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which resulted five-sixths of Ireland seceding from the United Kingdom and forming the Irish Free State, while Northern Ireland opted to remain part of the UK.

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Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922. For almost all of this period, the island was governed by the UK Parliament in Londonthrough its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Ireland faced considerable economic difficulties in the 19th century, including the Great Famine of the 1840s. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a vigorous campaign for Irish Home Rule. While legislation enabling Irish Home Rule was eventually passed, militant and armed opposition from Irish unionists, particularly in Ulster, opposed it. Proclamation was shelved for the duration following the outbreak of the Great War. By 1918, however, moderate Irish nationalism had been eclipsed by militant republican separatism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(1801%E2%80%931923)

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He served as an Irish Senator for two terms in his later years and it was he, along with Lady Gregory, who was the driving force behind the Irish literary Revival. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).

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Yeats was born and educated in Dublin, but spent his childhood in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889 and those slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Pre-Raphaelite poets. From 1900, Yeats' poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.

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He was an Irish poet and playwright. He was...

Born: 13 Jun 1865 · Sandymount, Ireland (below)

Died: 28 Jan 1939 · Menton, France

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Here is a sketchy drawing of him which I thought was quite mysterious and interesting.