William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory

Died in 1939

William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in Sandymount, near Dublin, the son of a painter; Isabella Augusta Persse, known as Lady Gregory, was born on 15 March 1852 in Roxborough, in County Galway. Widowed in 1892 by a former governor of Ceylon, she learned Irish and collected tales around her estate at Coole. Together they founded in 1899 the literary theatre that would become the Abbey, which opened in 1904. She died on 22 May 1932; a senator of the Free State from 1922 and Nobel laureate in 1923, he died on 28 January 1939 near Menton.

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