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...daughter Iseult. H. decided, at length, to marry his good friend Georgie Hyde-Lees, "if she were not 'tired of the idea.' " She was not, and they were married in London in October 1917. His old fencing companion, Ezra Pound, was best man. In February 1919, in Dublin, Anne Butler Yeats was born. Yeats told a friend: "George [his wife] announces from the horoscope that the child will be good-looking and lucky," and wrote a magnificent poem to her, praying that she might not, like beautiful Maud Gonne, develop an "opinionated mind...
This official biography, by the Dublin scholar Joseph Hone, is not by a good deal as great as its subject. Its polished-walnut elegance gives way now to dullness, now to Irish fanciness; its irony and its tact might occasionally have given way to blunter judgment. It goes into local minutiae tiresome to any save the hottest Hibernians. Its biographer cannot with detachment examine Yeats. Yet the book is so rich in its detailing of a significant life, and of the remarkable people who surrounded and shaped it, that it is unlikely that a more valuable work on Yeats will...
...known to be gifted mechanically. He had connected the telephone to the radio, and he had made the lights blink; now he would turn his skill to a more essential task than trying to induce merryment. Thus it was that the Narthex emeritus journeyed to the wilds of Dublin, N. H. and there did perfect a marvelous machine which ran on steam...
...course, the 'Poon's Rube Goldberg has yet to operate his steamobile, but he expects to drive it down here next weekend after completing the welding at his Dublin, N. H., home...
...motion to censure the censors was introduced into Eire's Senate. Uprose septuagenarian Professor of Metaphysics William Magennis of University College, Dublin, to declare for the censors, adding that "a campaign is being carried on in England, financed by American money, aimed at undermining Christianity...