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Festival Entry Highlights Story About Yeats Murder Conspiracy
Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on February 18, 2016 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments
Book Review: 'The Longing'
Book review
"The Longing," by Kimberly Mae
Friesen Press, 2015
Reading this warm-hearted book was a precise reminder to me of the full range of…
ContinueAdded by Patricia Louise Hughes on April 22, 2015 at 4:00am — No Comments
The Real Honor Bright
Mary Kate Neill was born on June 11th, 1900 in the tiny township of Graiguenaspiddoge in County Carlow. The 1901 census shows her ten months old. Her mother was Catherine or Kate Neill (née Cullen) aged 38, and her father Michael Neill aged 51. Born in 1850 just after the potato famine of 1845-7, he was a blacksmith. Graiguenaspiddoge was a row of 28 houses beside a main road in the countryside,…
ContinueAdded by Patricia Louise Hughes on January 1, 2015 at 5:59am — 1 Comment
Mr William Butler and Mrs George Yeats
When Olivia Shakespear introduced her ex-lover, W.B. Yeats, to her niece-by-marriage, Georgie, in London in 1917 she knew he was looking for a young wife and hoped they would be compatible. From…
Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on December 31, 2014 at 4:07am — 5 Comments
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…
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…
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…
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…
Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on October 11, 2014 at 4:30am — No Comments
Yeats's poem A Prayer for My Son - which son was he referring to?
“A Prayer for My Son” by William Butler Yeats
Bid a strong ghost stand at the head
That my Michael may…
Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on October 6, 2014 at 6:30am — No Comments
Lily O'Neill, known as Honor Bright, photographed by the Garda Siochana
This is one of the photographs taken of 'Honor Bright' by Garda Sgt Andrew Gordon on the morning of 9th June 1925. The photos were not used in court. In fact the court allowed no evidence about her at all apart from her name, address, age and her location on that night of 8th of June, the hottest night of the year, in relation to the location of the two accused murderers. Her words, emotions and actions or any closer description of her were objected to by the counsel of Leopold Dillon, who…
ContinueAdded by Patricia Louise Hughes on September 25, 2014 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment
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…
ContinueAdded 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
Honor Bright
Does any Dubliner remember the story of Honor Bright, who was murdered in Ticknock? What have you heard about her?
Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on September 4, 2014 at 11:51am — 2 Comments
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