William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13th 1865. He spent his childhood in London but spent his holidays in his grandfather’s house in Sligo. In his adulthood, his unrequited love for Maud Gonne inspired much of his writings. Later, Yeats met Lady Augusta Gregory of Coole Park in 1896. She became his friend and counsellor. He wrote of her, “She has been to me mother, friend, sister and brother … I cannot realize the world without her.” He summered at Coole for over 30 years and many of the winters too. In 1899, the Irish Literary Theatre was formed of which Yeats became a director. It was later replaced by the Irish National Theatre in 1902 and Yeats became its president. Having being refused twice by Maud Gonne, Yeats married George Hyde Lee, an English lady of great beauty. Yeats and his wife moved to Ireland and lived in a Norman tower house, named Thoor Ballylee. From 1919 to 1929, Thoor Ballylee, near Gort, became the summer house of the Yeats family.