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Page i A Yeats Dictionary Sanford Sternlicht, Series Editor

Page ii Pencil drawing of William Butler Yeats by William Hoth after a charcoal drawing by John Singer Sargent. Courtesy of the artist.

Page iii A Yeats Dictionary Persons and Places in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats Lester I. Conner

Page iv Copyright 1998 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5160 All Rights Reserved First Paperback Edition 1999 99 00 01 02 03 04 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI 39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Conner, Lester I. A Yeats dictionary : persons and places in the poetry of William Butler Yeats / Lester I. Conner. 1st ed. p. cm. (Irish studies) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-8156-2769-6 (cloth : alk. paper). 0-8156-2770-X (pbk: alk. paper) 1. Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 18651939Dictionaries. 2. Characters and characteristics in literatureDictionaries. 3. Names, Geographical, in literatureDictionaries. 4. Names, GeographicalIrelandDictionaries. 5. Names, PersonalIreland Dictionaries. 6. IrelandIn literatureDictionaries. 7. Names, IrishDictionaries. I. Title. II. Series: Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.) PR5906.A23 1998 821'.8dc21 97-34458 Manufactured in the United States of America

Page v This Book Is Dedicated, in Memoriam, to the Following People: Michael and Annabelle Conner Hal and Betty Conners Mike (Naphy) Conner Michael Durkan David Z. Johnson Marjorie Hope Nicolson, dear mentor This book is also dedicated to the following colleagues, friends, and family without whose help and encouragement it would not exist: Dorothy Berenson Blau, Helen Johnson, and Miriam Conner. John and Margaret Berkey, William Hoth, Samuel and Elizabeth Hynes, John and Stephanie Lukacs, James and Cathy Murphy, Paul Muldoon, Joanna Shaw Myers, Helen North, William Roberts and Helen Vendler. The following people in Ireland and England have been of noble inspiration and invaluable help: Brian and Anne Friel, Seamus and Marie Heaney, Brendan Kennelly, John and Christine Kelly, Michael and Edna Longley, Derek Mahon, Thomas and Lynn Mitchell, Tom and Giti Paulin, Trevor T. West, and the late Augustine Martin. And the Tainiste Dick Spring and his wife Kristie. Also Michael and Antoinette Bulfin, Brian and Patricia Donnelly, Christy and Valerie Moore, Davoc and Ann Rynne, and Peter and Collette Sheehy. And, finally, a tip of my hat to Helen Hayes, Frances Cheeseman, and Frances Whistler, Joyce Atwood, and Ann Vaccaro.

Page vi Lester I. Conner has taught in a number of American colleges and universities, but perhaps his richest experience was provided by Trinity College, Dublin, where he was five times a visiting professor, and at the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo. His connection with the Yeats School began in 1967 and has continued during the years since, principally as associate director. Most recently, Professor Conner has been an adjunct professor in the Irish Studies Program at Villanova University.

Page vii Contents Introduction ix A Yeats Dictionary 3 Genealogical Information 197 Books Consulted 201

Page ix Introduction This dictionary of the names of persons and places in the poetry of William Butler Yeats has as its primary purpose the identification of those names; and its audience, first and foremost, is the student and general reader of Yeats's poetry. It also throws light upon the context in the poem where the name appears. Many names that appear in this dictionary are well known and would not ordinarily need identificationnames such as Michelangelo, Swift, Parnell; and there are many well-known names, historical and literary, from classical antiquity. But Yeats often uses such names in a very special, personal way, a way that can be known to the general reader of Yeats's poetry only by a study of Yeats's nonpoetic writings, or the vast library of writings Yeats is known to have drawn upon, or the writings of the principal interpreters of Yeats's works. This dictionary broadens and supplements mere identification to include these additional references where they touch significantly upon the names. There is no intention here to explicate poems; that is for the writers of poetry criticism and, for Yeats's poetry, has been well-attended to. Certain inferences can be drawn, however, from the material given along with the identification of a name. Frequently, the information given might explain the imagery that surrounds the name in the context of the poem. For example, we can learn from many sources that Lady Kytler was a fourteenth-century sorceress in Ireland, but one might have to read an account of her trial, such as the account given by St. John D. Seymour in

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