Yeats and Irish coins

Sir,—With regard to Tony Canavan’s review of the Central Bank Visitor Centre (HI 26.1, Jan./Feb. 2018) and the design of the new coinage for the Irish Free State, my impression was that W.B. Yeats, given his family connection to visual art and his pre-eminence as a poet, overshadowed everybody on the committee, including the secretary ... Read more

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