What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: W. B. Yeats 1865 - 1939 poet lived here in 1921 Michael Butler Yeats 1921 - 2007 Irish Senator born here
William Butler Yeats was a prominent Irish poet and playwright, central to the Irish Literary Revival, remembered for his profound impact on modern literature and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
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