William Butler Yeats and the Murder of Honor Bright

Leafing through the Guardian I found a picture of William Butler Yeats receiving his Nobel Prize in 1923. It was a photograph my father used to show me as a child. I always assumed that both men were from a hot country because of their black hair and thick, pale, fast-tanning skin. My father used to avoid Irish people, so I didn''''t know what they looked like. Suddenly I realised there was a strong, personal resemblance. See more