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William Butler Yeats was going down Grafton Street that golden August of ’thirty-four and old Tom Boylan, who had the eye of an experienced hawk, nudged my painting arm. The paint we were using for the window-frames of the Bailey1 bar and restaurant smudged the glass lagoon-blue. There were just the two of us on the job in the side street,2 a few steps from the corner, and I was so occupied with the rubbing rag I missed Yeats going down the fashionable side of Grafton Street which is the far side.
Listener (London) lxxi (6 Feb 1964) 236–8.
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Brennan, D. (1977). As Yeats was Going Down Grafton Street. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02995-2_5
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