On this day: W.B. Yeats Was Born

Friday, 13th June 2014 by

On June 13, 1865, Irish poet W.B. Yeats was born in Dublin. His family soon relocated to Sligo, where he is honoured with a statue on Stephen Street (at least we think it's him - Google blurred his face for privacy reasons!) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, which he saw as a recognition of Irish literature as a movement rather than an individual achievement.

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Ian Brown lives in Ottawa, Canada, and spends his spare time perusing maps to find new routes to ride on his orange bicycle.