This poet & playwright served as a senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1928
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Postcolonial Studies | Yeats, W.B. and Postcolonialism - ScholarBlogs  Jun 21, 2014 ... As a writer who devoted himself to building Irish culture and literature, ... of the State explores the connections between Yeats's poetry and nationalism. ... From 1922 to 1928, Yeats served as a Senator for the Irish Free State,...
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) - National Gallery of Ireland  A brief biography of the world-famous Irish poet and playwright, W.B. Yeats. ... W.B. served as an Irish Free State Senator from 1922 until 1928. In 1932 he was...
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W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia  William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped the foundation of the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as an Irish Senator for two ..... He had been appointed to the first Irish Senate in 1922, and was...
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William Butler Yeats - Poet, Playwright - Biography.com  William Butler Yeats was one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century ... including The Tower (1928) and Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932). ... This revolutionary woman served as a muse for Yeats for years. ... in the new Irish Free State, serving as a senator for six years beginning in 1922.
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William Butler Yeats - Valancourt Books  As an expression of his nationalist fervor, in 1899 Yeats co-founded the Irish National ... ended in 1922, Yeats served as a senator in the Irish Free State, a position he held until 1928. Today Yeats is best known as a visionary poet whose work embodied the ... Yet between 1887 and 1905, Yeats was a prolific fiction writer.
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James Joyce | Irish author | Britannica.com  He entered University College, Dublin, which was then staffed by Jesuit ... In October 1901 he published an essay,  The Day of the Rabblement,  attacking the Irish Literary Theatre (later the Dublin Abbey Theatre) for catering to popular taste. ... He wrote verses and experimented with short prose passages that he called...
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Maud Gonne | Irish patriot | Britannica.com  Jul 8, 2016 ... Irish patriot, actress, and feminist, one of the founders of Sinn Fin (We Ourselves), ... member of the theatre movement started by her longtime suitor, W.B. Yeats. ... Maud Gonne, married name Maud MacBride (born December 21, 1866, ... In 1889 Yeats fell in love with her, and the heroine of his first play,...
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Brendan Behan - World Literature - schoolbag.info  Once characterized as ''a professional young Irishman,'' Brendan Behan ... Kathleen, Brendan's mother, was the sister of Peadar Kearney, who wrote ''The Soldier's Song,'' (c. ... In 1939 Behan was acting as an IRA courier when he was arrested in ... His next play, An Giall (translated and revised as The Hostage) did not...
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Eamonn de Valera - History Learning Site  He was also president of Sinn Fein from 1917 to 1926 and was to become prime minister and president of an independent Ireland. Eamonn de Valera was born...
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Irish Free State - Wikipedia  The Irish Free State was an independent state established in 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty ... The Free State was established as a Dominion of the British Commonwealth of .... of that name), against the British Army, the Black and Tans, the Royal Irish ..... According to one report, in 1924, shortly after the Irish Free State's...
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W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia  William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped the ... He was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London. ... William Butler Yeats was born at Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - jlax  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce- Chapter 5 ... in a negative way, and expresses understandable disappointment while she scrubs ... Stephen does not, like most of his classmates, identify himself as an Irish nationalist. .... Yeats also served two terms as a senator and was the first Irishman to receive the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree - Poems | Academy of American Poets  W. B. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 at the age ... I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with...
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J.M. Synge | Irish author | Britannica.com  Sep 29, 2016 ... In 1905 his first three-act play, The Well of the Saints, was produced. ... coast inspired his most famous play, The Playboy of the Western World (1907). ... It is a masterpiece of the Irish literary renaissance. ... During the Irish literary revival, the work of J.M. Synge (Riders to the Sea, 1904) and Sean O'Casey...
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Michael Collins | Irish statesman | Britannica.com  Their elected president, Eamon de Valera, and vice president, Arthur Griffith, were ... for de Valera's escape from Lincoln jail (February 1919), minister of finance. It was as director of intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), however, that he ... Collins's persuasiveness helped win acceptance for the treaty by a small...
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Jack Butler Yeats - Irish Cultural Society of the Garden City Area  Jack B. Yeats shares with most Anglo-Irish a bi-national biography. ... Like many Anglo-Irish families, the Yeats family had a presence in both Ireland and England. ... For example, although Ireland was the birth place of brother William the poet ... a prominent portrait painter at that time, and Jack would in time supersede his...
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Brendan Behan - Wikipedia  Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) was an Irish Republican, poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish .... He wrote about these years in his autobiography, Borstal Boy. .... A pub named for Behan is located in the historically Irish Jamaica Plain section of Boston...
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Sean O'Casey, Irish Playwright, Is Dead at 84 - The New York Times  18--Sean O'Casey, the Irish playwright, died tonight of a heart attack in Torquay. ... The dramatist, long an exile from his native Ireland, died at about 7 P.M., shortly after he .... Thus, in the early 1930's, when realistic approaches to drama found general favor, he wrote: ... She was an Irish actress who used the name Carey.
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John Millington Synge - Wikipedia  Edmund John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and ... Synge was born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, on 16 April 1871. ... Synge's grandfather, also named John Hatch Synge, was an admirer of the educator ..... Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1967.
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University of Dublin (constituency) - Wikipedia  University of Dublin is a university constituency in Ireland, which currently elects three senators to Seanad ireann. Its electorate comprises the undergraduate scholars and graduates of the .... The University of Dublin had one seat in this Parliament. .... Since 1922, most of the representatives of the University have been...
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Publishing History: - Washington State University  When the play was staged in 1899 in Dublin, it incurred abuse from Roman Catholic ... The Irish Literary Theatre began its productions in 1899 (being replaced in 1902 ... Even as he invokes the rose, however, the poet prays to stay in touch with ... Lionel Johnson, assessing the poems even earlier in the Countess Kathleen...