THE GHOST OF MICHAEL COLLINS IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN

On the omission of Collins from Yeats’s poetic pantheon By Fionnbharr Rodger ‘When news came in of the death of Michael Collins, one of the ministers recited to the cabinet … the entire Adonais of Shelley’, wrote Yeats in a letter to Olivia Shakespear. What is remarkable about this line is that it is the ... Read more

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