Who Is Buried In Yeats' Grave? Drumcliff, County Sligo, Ireland

Who is buried W.B. Yeats’ Grave?
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer.
A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in the affluent Dublin suburb of Sandymount. He was educated in Dublin and London, spending childhood holidays in County Sligo.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, Yeats is considered one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
He died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France, on 28 January 1939. He was 73. [1]
Yeats was buried at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin following a discreet and private funeral.But Yeats’s family and friends wanted him buried in Ireland in the graveyard of the neo-Gothic style St. Columba’s church in Drumcliff, Co. Sligo. His great grandfather had been rector of St. Columba’s.
Attempts were made in France to dissuade the family from relocating the remains to Ireland due to the uncertainty of their identity.
It seems that Yeats’s body had been exhumed and transferred to the ossuary, a common practice at that time in crowded European cemeteries. His bones may have been mixed up with others. [2]
The remains buried in Drumcliff, Co. Sligo, may - or may not - be those of William Butler Yeats.Yeats and his wife George had often discussed his death.
Yeats’ wish was that he be buried quickly in France with a minimum of fuss.
According to his wife, George, "His actual words were 'If I die, bury me up there [at Roquebrune] and then in a year's time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo'.” [3]
Positively identified or not, in September 1948, nine years after his death, Yeats's remains were moved to the churchyard of St Columba's Church, Drumcliff, County Sligo.Yeats’s remains were reportedly moved on the Irish Naval Service corvette LÉ Macha. [4]
The man in charge of repatriating the poet’s remains for the Irish Government was Seán MacBride, Minister of External Affairs. [5]
Seán MacBride was the son of Maud Gonne MacBride, who was one of Yeats’s former lovers.[6]
The epitaph carved into Yeats’s tombstone in Drumcliff is from the closing lines of "Under Ben Bulben", one of his final poems:
Cast a cold Eye
On Life, on Death.
Horseman, pass by!
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1. Obituary. "W. B. Yeats Dead Archived 28 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine". The New York Times, 30 January 1939.
Retrieved on 21 May 2007.2. Jordan, Anthony J. (2003). W. B. Yeats: Vain, Glorious, Lout - A Maker of Modern Ireland. Westport Books. ISBN 978-0-9524447-2-5.3.
Foster, R. F. (2003). W. B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-818465-2.4. Foster, 20035. Jordon, 20036.
Cahill, Christopher (December 2003). "Second Puberty: The Later Years of W. B. Yeats Brought His Best Poetry, along with personal melodrama on an epic scale". theatlantic.com. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
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