"is commemorated in Sligo town by a statue, created in 1989 by sculptor Ronan Gillespie. It was erected outside the Ulster Bank, at the corner of Stephen Street and Markievicz Road, on the 50th anniversary of the poet’s death. Yeats had remarked, on receiving his Nobel Prize that the Royal Palace in Stockholm ""resembled the Ulster Bank in Sligo"". Across the river is the Yeats Memorial Building, home to the Sligo Yeats Society. W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of"
"W. B. Yeats; as a musicologist; and as a theorist of multidisciplinary interpretation he termed ""panaesthetics."" The sections below discuss these career phases in more detail. Albright's advisor at Yale was Richard Ellmann, author of ""Yeats, The Man and the Masks"" (1948), a pivotal Yeats biography, and ""The Identity of Yeats"" (1953), a book-length analysis of the poet's style and themes. Albright wrote of Ellman: ""A conversation about a poem of Yeats' with Richard Ellmann was like a stroll through a forest with an agreeable companion who not only knows the names of every bird, bush, lichen, and bug, but"
"W. B. Yeats. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Philosophical Society. Wood was born in Lincoln, England. He obtained his BA in 1957 in French and German from St John's College, Cambridge, and his PhD in 1962, also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled ""The Dramatic Function of Symbol in Maeterlinck and Claudel"". Wood lives in New Jersey with his wife, Elena Wood Uribe, and has three children: Gaby Wood, the literary director of the Man Booker Prize, Patrick"
"Grant David Yeats Grant David Yeats (1773–1836) was an English-American physician and medical writer. Born in Florida, he was the son of David Yeats, a physician who was the Secretary of the East Florida Colony in Florida. He matriculated from Hertford College, Oxford, on 21 January 1790, graduating B.A. on 15 October 1793, M.A. on 25 May 1796, M.B. on 4 May 1797. He was incorporated M.B. at Dublin in 1807, and graduated M.D. from Trinity College, Oxford, on 7 June 1814. He spent two winter sessions in Edinburgh and one in London, and then practised at Bedford, where he"
"as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irishman so honoured. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize: these works include ""The Tower"" (1928) and ""The Winding Stair and Other Poems"" (1929). In addition to W. B. Yeats other important early modernist poets were the American poets T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) and Ezra Pound (1885–1972). Eliot became a British citizen in 1927 but was born and"
"by W. B. Yeats for the local translation of ancient Irish manuscripts. He did not seek re-election in 1934. He lived at Burton Hall, Stillorgan, for many years. In March 1923, during the Irish Civil War, the anti-Treaty republicans tried to burn it down, albeit without success. He married Mary Bainbridge in 1900 and they had 4 children, including Olympic medalist fencer Judy Guinness. His father, also named Henry (1829–93), had been the Dublin manager of the Guinness Mahon bank, and a son of its founder, Robert Rundell Guinness. Henry Guinness was also the first to write a number of"
"Gregor W. Yeates Gregor William Yeates, publishing as GW Yeates (19 May 1944 – 6 August 2012), was a New Zealand soil zoologist and ecologist. He was """"considered the world's leading authority in soil nematode ecology, a subject of economic and ecological importance."""" His PhD (under W. C. Clark) and DSc were both at Canterbury University. He spent most of his working life at Soil Bureau, a division of DSIR, which became Landcare Research. He published over 200 papers and described over 100 species in genera including , , Hemicycliophora, , Dorylaimida and Iotonchus. Holotypes of Yeates's are the earliest"
"Camel role is unglamorous and very dangerous, machine gunning trenches and approach routes at a few hundred feet up in un-armoured aircraft, with a constant threat from machine-gun fire from the soldiers beneath them. Victor Maslin Yeates Victor Maslin Yeates (30 September 1897 — 15 December 1934), often abbreviated to V. M. Yeates, was a British fighter pilot in World War I. He wrote ""Winged Victory"", a semi-autobiographical work widely regarded as one of the most realistic and moving accounts of aerial combat and the futility of war. Yeates was born at Dulwich and educated at Colfe's School, where according"
"Discoveries in Chemistry and Physiology"" (London), was published in 1798, after he had settled at Bedford. In it he called attention to the experiments of John Mayow, whose merits Thomas Beddoes had discovered two years before. It was uncritical but helped rescue his achievements from oblivion. Yeats was the author of: He also published many papers in 'Annals of Medicine,' the 'Medical and Physical Journal' and 'Medical Transactions.' Grant David Yeats Grant David Yeats (1773–1836) was an English-American physician and medical writer. Born in Florida, he was the son of David Yeats, a physician who was the Secretary of the"
"he resumed his position at Bedford, where he later served as mayor. About 1814 he moved to London, where he was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians on 30 September 1814, and a fellow on 30 September 1815. He was Gulstonian lecturer in 1817, censor in 1818, and Croonian lecturer around 1826 (speaking against the stethoscope). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 1 July 1819, and died at Tunbridge Wells on 14 November 1836. He married a daughter of Patrick Colquhoun. Yeats's major work, ""Observations on the Claims of the Moderns to some"
"Victor Maslin Yeates Victor Maslin Yeates (30 September 1897 — 15 December 1934), often abbreviated to V. M. Yeates, was a British fighter pilot in World War I. He wrote ""Winged Victory"", a semi-autobiographical work widely regarded as one of the most realistic and moving accounts of aerial combat and the futility of war. Yeates was born at Dulwich and educated at Colfe's School, where according to Henry Williamson he read Keats under the desk during Maths, explored woods, fields and ponds and kept a tame tawny owl. Yeates joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps in 1916 and"
"thick with irony, paradox, and vision; it looks for the big questions and the big answers in small things. Here in the flesh, in the instruments too, is the other side of Yeats’s polarity, the dialogue with the self. The poet’s role here is twofold: to let the world move her; then to “spark, filter, make geometry.” Wendy Battin Wendy Battin (May 27, 1953 - December 21, 2015) was an American poet. Wendy Battin was born in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from Cornell University and the University of Washington. She taught at MIT, Smith College, Syracuse University, Boston University, Connecticut"
"in the library of LancasterHistory.org in Lancaster, Pa. where it is available for scholarly research. After the Revolution, Yeates was a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1787. Appointed as a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1791, he served until his death in 1817. A Federalist, he was appointed by the Washington administration in 1794 to serve on a commission sent to negotiate an end to the Whiskey Rebellion. Yeates died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on March 14, 1817 and is buried in St. James Episcopal Church cemetery along with his wife Sarah,"
"because he brings light, as only the great dare to bring light, to the issueless predicament of existence."" The Marxist art critic and author John Berger also paid tribute to Yeats from a very different perspective, praising the artist as a ""great painter"" with a ""sense of the future, an awareness of the possibility of a world other than the one we know"". His favourite subjects included the Irish landscape, horses, circus and travelling players. His early paintings and drawings are distinguished by an energetic simplicity of line and colour, his later paintings by an extremely vigorous and experimental treatment"
"London and trained as a kindergarten teacher at the Froebel College in Bedford, Bedfordshire. She undertook her teaching practice at the Bedford Park High School. In 1892 when her training was completed she taught as a visiting art mistress at the Froebel Society, Chiswick High School and the Central Foundation School. Lecturing and publication of four popular painting manuals: Brushwork (1896), Brushwork studies of flowers, fruits and animals (1898), Brushwork copy book (1899), and Elementary brushwork studies (1900) and earned Yeats a good income. She trained and worked as an art teacher and was a member of William Morris's circle"
"to join the society. In 1960 he joined St Clare's, Oxford, and was responsible for directing the academic programme for external London degrees and a liberal arts programme for visiting American students. Prof Knowland became Vice-Principal in 1972. Tony's professional career took him on visiting professorships to the universities of Connecticut and Munich. He published work on 17th-century drama, translations of Sophocles and Aristophanes and was an authority on W.B. Yeats. His book, W.B. Yeats, Dramatist of Vision was published both in the United Kingdom and America. Electronic versions of some of these works are available through the library at"
"1977, he was nominated by the Taoiseach Jack Lynch to the 14th Seanad. He resigned from the Seanad on 12 March 1980. From 1969 to 1973, during the 12th Seanad, he served as Cathaoirleach (chair). While a senator, Yeats served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1973 to 1979, being appointed to Ireland's first, second and third delegations. He stood at the first direct elections in 1979 for the Dublin constituency but was not elected. He was married to Gráinne, a singer and Irish harpist. They had four children: daughters Caitríona (a concert harpist), Siobhán (a patents professional)"
"in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia where he became a prominent member of the bar. On December 30, 1767 he married Sarah Burd, eldest daughter of Colonel James Burd and his wife Sarah Shippen. During the American Revolution, he sided with the Patriot cause. In 1776, he served as a commissioner to investigate Native American affairs in Pittsburgh. Yeates was a prominent lawyer in Lancaster and during his career he built a fine library of legal books in several languages totaling 1,043 volumes in all. Most were purchased in Dublin and London. The library today is housed in its entirety"
"(1902), and ""Gods and Fighting Men"" (1904). In the preface of the later he wrote: ""One must not expect in these stories the epic lineaments, the many incidents, woven into one great event of, let us say the War for the Brown Bull of Cuailgne, or that of the last gathering at Muirthemne."" Yeats was an Irish Nationalist, who sought a kind of traditional lifestyle articulated through poems such as 'The Fisherman'. However, as his life progressed, he sheltered much of his revolutionary spirit and distanced himself from the intense political landscape until 1922, when he was appointed Senator for"
"the occultist and poet W. B. Yeats. In November 1889 she was visited by the Indian lawyer Mohandas Gandhi, who was studying the ""Bhagavad Gita"" with the Keightels. He became an associate member of Blavatsky's Lodge in March 1891, and would emphasize the close connection between Theosophy and Hinduism throughout his life. In 1888, Blavatsky established the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society, a group under her complete control for which admittance was restricted to those who had passed certain tests. She identified it as a place for ""true Theosophists"" who would focus on the system's philosophy rather than experiment"
"(published 1908–15, with illustrations from Jack Yeats). Yeats was the first commercial printer in Ireland to work exclusively with hand presses. She worked with Cuala Press until short of her death on 16 January 1940 after a diagnosis of high blood pressure and heart trouble. Elizabeth Yeats Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (11 March 1868 – 16 January 1940), known as Lolly, was an Anglo-Irish educator and publisher. Elizabeth Corbet Yeats was born at 23 Fitzroy Road, London. She was the daughter of the Irish artist John Butler Yeats and Susan Yeats (née Pollexfen). She was sister to W. B., Jack and"
"Edith Shackleton Heald Edith Shackleton Heald (12 September 1885 – 4 November 1976) was a bisexual British journalist who was the last mistress of the poet W. B. Yeats from 1937 until his death in 1939, and lived with the openly lesbian artist Gluck from 1944 until her death in 1976. Yeats called her ""the best paid woman journalist of her time"", and Arnold Bennett called her the ""most brilliant reviewer"" in London. Edith Shackleton Heald was born on 12 September 1885 in Manchester, the younger daughter of John Thomas Heald, and Mary Shackleton. They were both from Stacksteads, Lancashire,"
"North, with two children. He was elected to the Rimutaka ward of the Upper Hutt City Council (1973–1977) and the Hutt Valley Drainage Board (1973–1977). He was later involved with Te Manawa in Palmerston North and the Royal Society of New Zealand at both a local and a national level. Gregor W. Yeates Gregor William Yeates, publishing as GW Yeates (19 May 1944 – 6 August 2012), was a New Zealand soil zoologist and ecologist. He was """"considered the world's leading authority in soil nematode ecology, a subject of economic and ecological importance."""" His PhD (under W. C. Clark) and"
"and titled ""Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W.B. Yeats"". In 1959, upon graduation, she secured employment as an English tutor for forty hours a week. Her MA thesis was on the representation of innocence in Wordsworth with M.H. Abrams. In 1963-64, she attended Girton College, Cambridge, as a research student under the supervision of Professor T.R. Henn, writing on the representation of the stages of development of the lyric subject in the poetry of William Butler Yeats. She presented a course in the summer of 1963 on ""Yeats and the Theme of Death"" at the Yeats"
"Jack Butler Yeats John Butler Yeats (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist. W. B. Yeats was his brother. Butler's early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906. His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland—especially of his boyhood home of Sligo. Yeats's work contains elements of Romanticism. Yeats was born in London, England. He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats and the brother of W. B. Yeats, who received the"
"John Stuart Yeates John Stuart Yeates, MBE, PhD (11 July 1900 – 24 August 1986), also known as Jack Yeates, was a New Zealand academic and botanist. The founding head of Agricultural Botany at Massey Agricultural College, he was also an accomplished breeder of azaleas, rhododendrons and lilies. Born into a farming family in Waitara in the Taranaki, Yeates attended Stratford District High School (where he won an Entrance Scholarship (later called the University Entrance Scholarship)) and then Victoria College (now Victoria University of Wellington, then part of the University of New Zealand) in Wellington. He completed a B.Sc. and"
"earlier life, Yeats found erotic adventure conducive to his creative energy, and, despite age and ill-health, he remained a prolific writer. In a letter of 1935, Yeats noted: ""I find my present weakness made worse by the strange second puberty the operation has given me, the ferment that has come upon my imagination. If I write poetry it will be unlike anything I have done"". In 1936, he undertook editorship of the ""Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892–1935"". He died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, on 28 January 1939, aged 73. He was buried after a discreet"
"Timothy Yeats Timothy Yeats (1935 – 16 January 2016) was a theological educator, missiologist and historian. Yeats was the Warden of Cranmer Hall, the Anglican theological college that forms part of St John's College, Durham, from 1971 to 1979. Under his headship, the college first admitted women in 1973. In 1979, he wrote the first history of the college in celebration of its 70th anniversary. From 2008 until his death, he was a member of the college's Development Board, fundraising and consulting on a proposed Learning Resource Centre. He died on 16 January 2016. A public service of thanksgiving was"
"Wayne Oates Wayne Edward Oates (24 June 1917 – 21 October 1999) was an American psychologist and religious educator who coined the word 'workaholic'. Born to a incredibly impoverished family in Greenville, South Carolina in June 1917, Oates was abandoned by his father in infancy and was brought up by his grandmother and sister while his mother supported them by working in a cotton mill. At the age of fourteen he was one of a small number of impoverished clever boys selected to serve as a United States House of Representatives Page. He enjoyed the experience and it inspired him"
"as a triumph of public order and the needs of the national collective over petty individualism. On the other hand, he was also an elitist who abhorred the idea of mob-rule, and saw democracy as a threat to good governance and public order. After the Blueshirt movement began to falter in Ireland, he distanced himself somewhat from his previous views, but maintained a preference for authoritarian and nationalist leadership. By 1916, Yeats was 51 years old and determined to marry and produce an heir. His rival John MacBride had been executed for his role in the 1916 Easter Rising, so"
"influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and made use of Irish ""peasant folk traditions and ancient Celtic myth"" in his early poetry. Subsequently, however, he was drawn to the ""intellectually more vigorous"" poetry of John Donne, along with Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and became one of the greatest 20th-century modernist poets. Though Yeats was an Anglo-Irish Protestant he was deeply affected by the Easter Rising of 1916 and supported the independence of Ireland. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 and was a member of the Irish Senate from 1922–28. A group of early 20th-century Irish poets worth"
"2015. John Yates (chemist) John T. Yates Jr. (August 3, 1935 – September 2015) was an American chemist. He was an investigator in the field of surface chemistry and physics, including both the structure and spectroscopy of atoms and molecules on surfaces, the dynamics of surface processes and the development of new methods for research in surface chemistry. He worked at the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) in Washington, D.C., and subsequently at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was for 25 years the R. K. Mellon Professor of Chemistry and Physics as well as the founding director of"
"population engaged in creative industries, the highest proportion in Connacht, excepting County Leitrim. Music is of great importance in Sligo, with many musicians both from Sligo and from around the world coming to Sligo to play and improve their craft. Sligo culture was a significant inspiration on both poet and Nobel laureate W. B. Yeats and his brother the artist, illustrator and comics pioneer Jack Butler Yeats. An extensive collection of Jack B Yeats art is held in the Model Niland Gallery on the Mall. Yeats Summer School takes place every year in the town and attracts scholars from all"