W.B Yeats was born 160 years ago on June 13, 2025. One hundred years ago, that “smiling public man” lived through and endorsed the rise of authoritarianism, whether in the guise of Mussolini’s Italian fascism or in that of the new right-wing Catholic Irish Free State, whose forces had triumphed over the left wing of the Republican movement in the bloody Civil War that followed the anti-colonial War of Independence.
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