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Michael Butler Yeats (22 August 1921 – 3 January 2007) was an Irish barrister and Fianna Fáil politician. He served two periods as a member of Seanad Éireann. His father was the poet W. B. Yeats, who likewise served in the Seanad, and his mother was Georgie Hyde-Lees.
Jan 4, 2007 · The death has taken place of former Fianna Fáil senator and MEP Michael Yeats. He was 86. Mr Yeats, who was the only son of the poet and playwright WB Yeats, joined Fianna Fáil in the early...
Jan 6, 2007 · Michael Yeats: Michael Yeats, who has died aged 85, was a former Fianna Fáil senator and MEP. Having served as cathaoirleach of the Seanad, he went on to become the first Irish vice-president...
Jan 10, 2007 · Michael Yeats (1921-2007) was a Fianna Fáil Senator, an MEP and a guardian of his father's literary legacy. He had a difficult relationship with the poet, who died in 1939, but inherited his European royalties and donated his papers to the National Library.
Jan 3, 2007 · Michael Yeats, the son of poet WB Yeats, was a Fianna Fáil Senator and a European Parliament member. He wrote about his political career and donated items from the Yeats archive to the National Library.
Aug 6, 1999 · Yeats (1865-1939) is a challenge to the curator, as he is to the biographer and in a different way to the reader of his verse, prose, memoirs and plays. He lived a long, complex, regularly...
Jan 9, 2007 · The funeral service for former Fianna Fáil MEP and cathaoirleach of the Seanad, Michael Yeats, was told yesterday he "played his own significant part in the creation of the new Ireland". Mr...
