Yeats, Michael B., 1921-2007
Dates
- Existence: 1921-08-22 - 2007-01-03
Biographical note
Michael Butler Yeats was born on August 22, 1921 in Thame, Oxfordshire, England, to W.B. (William Butler) Yeats and Georgie (Hyde-Lees) Yeats. He graduated in 1943 from Trinity College Dublin, where he met his wife, harpist and singer Gráinne Dill Ní Éigeartaigh (1925–2013). Yeats joined the Fianna Fáil party in 1943, was nominated to the seventh Seanad Éireann by Éamon de Valera in 1951, and from 1961 to 1980, served as a member of Seanad in multiple roles. In 1973, Yeats was nominated as a member of the European parliament, and in 1975, he became a vice-president. Yeats resigned from the Seanad in 1980 to serve as a director of the EEC Council of Ministers (now the Council of the European Union). Yeats also served as chair, secretary, and director of the Cuala Press, which he and his sister Anne Yeats revived in 1969. He died on January 3, 2007.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Cuala Press, Ltd., between 1969-1983
Prints produced from original plates by a newly incorporated iteration of the press, Cuala Press, Ltd., run by Anne and Michael Yeats, children of W.B. Yeats. Unlike prints produced by the original iteration of Cuala Press, these prints are numbered and titled directly on the work.
Collection is open for research.
Boston College collection of Yeats family papers
The Boston College collection of Yeats family papers includes artwork, correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, and photographs by and about siblings W. B., Elizabeth Corbet, Lily, and Jack B. Yeats; their father, John Butler Yeats; the wife of W. B., Georgie Yeats; the daughter of W.B., Anne Yeats; and the son of W.B., Michael B. Yeats. It also documents the running of Cuala Press, a Yeats family business.
Collection is open for research; a portion is available digitally.