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  1. Oct 5, 2024 · Home. Events. ONLINE: 'The British Soldier is no Bolshevik: problems with demobilisation' with Dr William Butler. 15 Apr. The presentation will be live and online. Almost immediately after the Armistice was signed in November 1918, many British soldiers went on strike to demand their swifter return to civilian life.

  2. 2 days ago · William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival , and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre , serving as its chief during its early years.

  3. 1 day ago · Brigadier William Henry Hutton Aitken [2] (1898—1978), Royal Engineers; Major-General John Aldam Aizlewood (1895—1990), GOC 42nd Armoured Division; General Sir John Akehurst (1930—2007), Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Major-General William Philip Jopp Akerman [2] (1888—1972), Royal Artillery

  4. Sep 24, 2024 · William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats’s father, John Butler Yeats, was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother, formerly.

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  5. Oct 5, 2024 · Inspired by an event that reminded him of the lake in Sligo, the beloved Irish county of his childhood, William Butler Yeats’ widely anthologized "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" remains one of the poet’s most famous and widely anthologized poems.

  6. Oct 9, 2024 · William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" is a complex and evocative poem that explores themes of mortality, aging, and the search for eternal life through art and spirituality.

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  8. Sep 30, 2024 · This sonnet concerns the rape of Leda, Queen of Sparta, by the god Zeus in the form of a swan. From this mythological subject, which held great fascination for Renaissance painters and sculptors...

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