Patricia Hughes

Who Killed Honor Bright?

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William Butler Yeats had an extra-marital lover, Lily O'Neill or Honor Bright, from 1918 to 1925. Garda Superintendent Leopold Dillon murdered her on orders from Kevin O'Higgins, Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. George, Senator Yeats's wife, reported falsely that Lily was a Republican spy. O'Higgins wanted to restore credence in the Free State, which would otherwise have been reclaimed by the British due to maladministration. Afterwards a bogus trial was concocted outside the court circuit by Chief Superintendent David Neligan, at which Lily was reinvented as a prostitute to conceal Yeats's affair and son, and hide the involvement… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-244-51191-3
EAN: 9780244511913
Produktnummer: 32593916
Verlag: Lulu.com
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 244 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.9 cm 533 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 533

Über den Autor

Since 2006, when Patricia Hughes first discovered the close resemblance of her father to William Butler Yeats, she has been researching and writing about what happened. Starting with a collection of her first research notes in 'William Butler Yeats and the Murder of Honor Bright', she progressed to An Analysis of Selected Poetry by William Butler Yeats between 1918 and 1928, before finally writng all her research findings into 'Who Killed Honor Bright? How William Butler and George Yeats Caused the Fall of the Irish Free State.' The essay in this book was a result of a talk she gave in 2015 at the University of Florence in Italy. It was published by Professor Fiorenzo Fantaccini of the Department of Irish Studies in the journal Studi Inglese'.