But W J McCormack’s vigorous new book is not a simple biography. His claim is that this is, at last, the book which refuses to gloss over the unacceptable features of the poet’s politics; it is ‘a ...
Jack Yeats lived his life in the shadow of his elder brother, the poet, the famous W B. Yeats, who was to become Ireland’s greatest painter, was born in London in 1871, at Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill, ...