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In 1932, when Lady Gregory lay dying at Coole, Yeats wrote1 to me to tell that she was reading my novel, The Lady of the Cromlech, on her death-bed; and he touched on synthesis only to reject it. ‘There are two Irelands,’ he wrote. His Ireland now, on his own admission, had nothing in common with that of Gaels or of Catholics.
Extracted from ‘Yeats As I Knew Him’, Irish Monthly (Dublin) lxvii (Mar 1939) 204–13. Condensed under the same title in Irish Digest (Dublin) m, no. 3 (May 1939) 33–6.
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De Blacam, A. (1977). Yeats as I new Him. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02995-2_13
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