Recolonising Irish Literature? Bringing Yeats back to Dublin

Since this symposium is interdisciplinary, I may be allowed to speak about a poet—but in a historical context. And I should like to present W. B. Yeats as a figure whose practical as well as symbolic importance in Irish politics is immense. In any discussion of the cultural relations between Britain and Ireland under the Union, Yeats looms large, but his image is Protean. He has been enlisted to represent liberationist nationalism, the voice of decolonisation (not quite the same thing), and t..