YEATS’ DYING WISH
GRAVE IN IRELAND. LONDON, February 7. Ills remaimi of Dr. V». IS. Yeats, Irish poet and Nobel prize winner, who v?.s buried at Roquebrunc. near Cap 'Martin, Franco. arc fo be brought home to Eire, but not until they have rested in French soil for a year. Dr. Teats made this dying wish to his v. ido" . She conveyed it to Mr.
Lennox Robinson, the Abbey Theatre itirc't'i;. •hr ha-; been mine in the ctiorl'i to have the remains brought home. .A year hence the remains v ill ho in ft!red at Drumcliffe. County Gli"" where Dr. Yeats’ father lived an' where the poet spent. his early day' before going to Dublin and London. This decision disposes of Hm migyc" tion made by tho Dean of St. Patrick’ Cathedral. Dublin, that the poet's rc mains might be buried there in com pair' with of Dealt Svift.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1939, Page 9
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