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Birthdate of poet WB Yeats – 150th anniversary
June 13, 2015, 12:00 AM EDT
William Butler Yeats was one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats 2015 is a year long event taking place, not only across the poet’s home country of Ireland, but around the world.
Learn more here.