The History of My Family: W.B. “Leda”, her Murder and Why he Abandoned his Son
William Butler Yeats had an extra-marital lover, Lily O’Neill or Honor Bright, from 1918 to 1925. Garda Superintendent Leopold Dillon murdered her on orders from Kevin O’Higgins, Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. George, Yeats’s wife, reported falsely that Lily was a Republican spy. O’Hig...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Studi Irlandesi : a Journal of Irish Studies |
| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7326 |