William Butler Yeats“September 1913“ - “O’Leary in the grave“ Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of the great William Butler Yeats reading his poem of September 1913 “O’Leary in the grave“ he poem is an attack by Yeats on the employers and merchants of Dublin. It was provoked by the lockout of September 1913 in which all members of the ITGWU were locked out by their employers, giving rise to a winter of poverty and confrontation in the city of Dublin and resulting in victory for the employers. Yeats was particularly annoyed with the man who led the employers, William Martin Murph