William butler yeats biography timeline designs

William Butler Yeats [WBY] b. 13 June, Sandymount, Co. Dublin, the eldest child of John Butler Yeats, a barrister-turned-painter, and Susan Yeats [née Pollexfen].

The Yeats family moves to London (July).

Family holidays in Sligo.

Susan Yeats takes the children to her parents’ house in Sligo .

Returns to London (Oct.).

Family returns to Ireland and settles at Howth, nr.

Dublin (Summer).

WBY enrolls at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin (May).

WBY publishes first poems in Dublin University Review (April).
WBY founds Dublin Hermetic Society with George Russell (“AE”) and Charles Johnston (June).
WBY meets Douglas Hyde, Katharine Tynan and John O’Leary.

WBY attends his first séance; Mohini Chatterjee comes to Dublin to help found Theosophical Lodge.

WBY leaves Metropolitan School of Art (April).
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