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Who's Buried in Yeats' Tomb?

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880907
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The grave of William Butler Yeats in western Ireland, where the great Irish poet was given a state funeral in 1948, probably doesn't contain his remains, a researcher said yesterday.

The tomb in Drumcliffe, County Sligo, said Diana Souhami, more likely contains the remains of anonymous Frenchmen with whom Yeats shared a pauper's grave before being brought to Ireland for reburial.

Souhami's conclusions, which met with disbelief among some keepers of Yeats' memory, are based on letters of a friend of Yeats', painter Hannah Gluck. Yeats died in France in 1939 after stipulating he wanted to be ...

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