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Yeats' Son Denies The Wrong Bones Were Reburied

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880908
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The son of William Butler Yeats has disputed a biographer's claim that the wrong bones were put in the poet's grave when he was reburied in Ireland nearly a decade after his death, The Irish Times reported yesterday.

Michael Yeats was quoted as saying the claim was "the greatest nonsense" and that "it is absolutely certain that my father is buried in County Sligo. I have the documentation to prove it."

English biographer Diana Souhami said earlier this week that Yeats was buried in France in a mass paupers' grave and that when the bones were dug up for transfer to Ireland in 1948, there ...

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