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June 13 Birthdays: William Butler Yeats — FactMonster.com (569 words) |
 | 1865–1939, Irish poet and playwright, born in Dublin. |
| The greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced and one of the major figures of 20th-century literature, Yeats was the acknowledged leader of the Irish literary renaissance. |
| The Irish Literary Theatre produced several of Yeats's plays including Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902), and—after the Abbey Theatre was opened—The Hour Glass (1904), The Land of Heart's Desire (1904), and Deirdre (1907). |
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