Anne Yeats (1919-2001), daughter of William Butler Yeats, trained at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1932-1936. Anne was appointed assistant stage designer to the Abbey Theatre in 1935, eventually becoming chief designer. During the 1940s Anne returned to painting and participated in the first Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943.
Fact: Burial Shanganagh Cemetery , Shankill, County Dublin, Ireland
Sources
"Ireland Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FB1G-X2C : 16 March 2020), BIRTHS entry for Anne Butler Yeats; citing Dublin South, Apr - Jun 1919, vol. 2, p. 631, General Registry, Custom House, Dublin; FHL microfilm 101,078.
Passenger List: "UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960" The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 1098; Item: 29 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1518 #21997987 (accessed 26 February 2022) Name: Anne Butler Yeats; Arrival Age: 14; Birth Date: abt 1922; Port of Departure: Rangoon, Burma; Arrival Date: 2 Jun 1936; Port of Arrival: London, England; Ports of Voyage: Rangoon; Port Sudan; Suez; Port Said; Marseilles and Palma; Ship Name: Pegu; Shipping Line: Henderson Line; Official Number: 144260.
Anne Yeats (1919-2001) on Find A Grave: Memorial #103117096 retrieved 12 August 2019
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