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William Butler Yeats

Died in 1939

William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in Sandymount, near Dublin, the son of the painter John Butler Yeats. Brought up between London and Dublin, he spent his holidays in Connacht and took part in the country's literary revival. He long loved the nationalist Maud Gonne, who refused to marry him, and co-founded with two Irish dramatists the Abbey Theatre, opened in 1904. Married in 1917, a senator of the Free State from 1922, Nobel laureate in 1923, he died on 28 January 1939 near Menton.

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