#john yeats

[universitybookstore]

Ah, fathers and sons. New fromScribner and novelist and critic Colm Toibin, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce.

[outlawpetegsc]

Still photo from the documentary “ Lily & Lolly: The Forgotten Yeats Sisters” -hosted by Imelda May , March 8th ,2024, Sky Arts & NOW tv.

[brianjohnspencer]

Although he came from a liberal unionist background, John B., like all of his children, developed nationalist sympathies and, for example, became a supporter of the Boers in their struggle against the British Empire. In one of his letters written from Bedford Park, he reports on a visit by the old Fenian, John O'Leary, who was a source of inspiration to WB, to the Calumets, a club in Bedford Park, of which the Irish poet and man of letters, John Todhunter, was also a member. John B. reports that he was disappointed that O’Leary had avoided 'dangerous subjects'. He had tried to 'roll in the apple of discord', but to no avail.

Daniel Mulhall, Irish ambassador in London (Here: https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/great-britain/news-and-events/2015/yeats-family-john-betjeman-lecture/)