Patricia Louise Hughes's Blog Posts Tagged 'History of Ireland' (6)

The Pending Birth of Yeats' Illegitimate Son

On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac

by W.B. Yeats

Your hooves have stamped at the black margins of the wood,

Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.

My works are all stamped down in the sultry mud.

I knew that horse-play, knew it for a murderous thing.

What wholesome sun has ripened is wholesome…

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Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on December 18, 2014 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Yeats Declares His Love

The year before his marriage Yeats had published ‘Easter 1916’, about the Dublin uprising and the relentless British…

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Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on December 2, 2014 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Yeats Falls in Love

By 1919, W.B. Yeats was writing Ego Dominus Tuus (Latin: I am your Master). For the first time he uses Latin, the common voice of Catholicism. Also for…

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Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on October 27, 2014 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

The Murder of Lily O'Neill, known as Honor Bright, in 1925

The murder had made a big stir from the start, despite the  mayhem in Dublin a few years earlier. The police photo in situ shows a large crowd gathering to stare, and according to reporters they flocked to see the body in the back shed of Lamb Doyle’s public house outside…

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Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on October 11, 2014 at 4:30am — No Comments

My new book "Who Killed Honor Bright? How William Butler and George Yeats Caused the Fall of the Irish Free State"

Hello Wild Geese!

I've decided to write this blog to get congratulations - yes, for me - for not only finishing writing my book, but also this week publishing a readable copy of it. I actually published it in August but the print was so small only leprechauns could read it. Now I've improved it and it looks quite nice - just have a look and see on www.HuesBooks.com.

Finishing my project is quite a surprise. Now another has turned up. I…

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Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on September 24, 2014 at 3:50pm — No Comments

Irish Free State history

I'm getting more and more people, mainly in Ireland but all over the world, looking at my website www.HuesBooks.com to find out the recent development in the history of the Irish Free State.

Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on September 4, 2014 at 11:53am — No Comments

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