W. B. Yeats [antikvár]

The church and churchyard, DrumclifF, County SligoOn 13 June 1865, in Sandymount, a seaside suburb of Dublin, William Buder Ancestors Yeats was born. His ancestors, by his own account, were men and women of personality and of markedly conflicting political persuasions. One of them saved the life of the national hero Eajrkk Sarsfield during the last turbulent years oithe seventeenth century; pother, almost a hundred years later, was a sworn_friend of Major_S^irr, the most committed enemy of Irish self-government. Sirr was the man who in 1803 arrested the rebel leader Robert Emmet, and strongly approved of the death/sentence which was imposed on him. On the other hand, again, Yeats' great/grandfather was an admiring supporter of young Emmet and mourned for his untimely death on the scaffold.The family of Yeats' father were mercantile settlers, one of whom, a Church of Ireland clergyman, John Yeats, was appointed in 1805 to the living of Drumcliffin County Sligo. The long and close connection of the poet's family with Sligo dates from this event. John Yeats' image was to influence the poet in his choice of a burial site, for in one of the last of his poems he cries:Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumclijf churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector there Long years ago.