William Butler Yeats first appears, in the memories of his contemporaries ... soldiers and government officials on this side of the family. Yeats's mother was a Pollexfen; her stock was Cornish ...
On it are John Butler Yeats, portrait painter, and sons Jack Yeats, the well-known artist, and William Butler Yeats ... the archive - donated by the Yeats family and by Vin Ryan from the Schooner ...
The poet William Butler Yeats was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.