![]() In his youth, he belonged to an occult group known as the Golden Dawn, practiced magic, attempted automatic writing and séances to commune with the spirit world, but later served two terms as an Irish Senator after the Irish did achieve freedom.įollowing Yeats’ trail through Ireland makes for magical travel. At some point, he proposed to her daughter, who also declined. He fell in love with fellow Anglo-Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne and proposed to her, by some accounts, more than a dozen times. Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Yeats was also a founder of the Abbey Theater, and an ardent Irish revolutionary who supported Irish independence from Great Britain, despite being part of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy class who had ruled Ireland for nearly 400 years. ![]() In 2015, Ireland celebrated the 150th anniversary of William Butler Yeats, a poet at once deeply mystical, radically political, and unabashedly romantic. He presses his ear to the damp ground and waits in silence he hopes, at last, to hear the music of the sidhe - the little people of Ireland. The moon is full and a wind is dancing up from Sligo harbor. He has climbed to the top of a cnoc - a little Irish hill. ![]()
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