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Padua’s elaborate Cimitero Maggiore
- January 23, 2018, marked the 100th anniversary of the death in Italy of Ireland’s most famous aviator, Major Robert Gregory. His grave stands in a quiet corner of Padua’s elaborate Cimitero Maggiore in a well-maintained section distinguished by its symmetry and simplicity.
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Jan 6, 2018 · Major Robert Gregory, the only son of Yeats's long-time patron, Lady Gregory of Coole Park, Gort, Co Galway, died when his Royal Flying Corps aircraft crashed on the Italian front on 23 January...
The only certainty is that a body was retrieved, and buried with full military honours in the main cemetery in Padua. Yeats had no illusion about Gregory’s feelings towards him, and yet he was fulsome in praise for ‘the most accomplished man I have ever known’.
Sep 29, 2009 · The poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" was supposedly written by Yeats about his friend, Robert Gregory, who died on 23 January 1918. Gregory is buried at Padua in Italy, but does anyone know how he actually met his death?
Aug 30, 2002 · On January 23 1918, almost 100 years ago, Robert Gregory’s plane mysteriously fell from the sky. He is buried at Padua main cemetery. His wife Margaret kept a diary which remained in private hands for 90 years.
Born in 1790. Died on 20 Apr 1847. Buried in Kiltartan, County Galway, Ireland.
Aug 24, 2018 · Robert, the Irish Airman of the Yeats poem, was the only son of Sir William & Lady Augusta Gregory of Coole park. To mark the occasion the focus of tours, at Kiltartan Gregory Museum, this year, is on the life of Robert, his death, his paintings and his family.
