This history conference paper explains controversial events in William Butler Yeats's life, such as sudden heart troubles and depression from June 1925, his notorious Divorce Bill speech, the riots over O'Casey's production of 'The Plough and the Stars' in Yeats' Abbey Theatre in February 1926, and his subsequent obsession with Purgatory. His wife George was his amanuensis; this essay explains her motivation for altering details in his works and hoarding his papers after his death. She insisted that Yeats's alter egos and 'masks' were psychic creations of a genius; this essay shows they were real disguises that George had to suppress in order to hide her own role in the murder of Yeats's extra-marital lover.
The essay also explains why my grandmother was murdered, who was responsible, and how the truth was concealed. It explains why my father had a different name in childhood, and why the Garda Siochana strongly urged him to not enquire into his mother's life. It shows why my sisters and I could see from her photograph that she was not a prostitute, and why the jury at the trial of her alleged murderers had such a different point of view.
In 2021 Ancestry.co.uk verified by means of "Thrulines" DNA analysis that the author is the granddaughter of William Butler Yeats, and that her fsther was Yeats' illegitimate son by Lily O'Neill, who changed her name to Honor Bright in 1922, when the Yeats family moved back to Dublin from Oxford, because her life and her son's were being threatened by George Yeats, as revealed in her "automatic writing".
- ISBN13 9781909275393
- Publish Date 17 June 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hues Books
- Edition Student edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 25
- Language English