He wrote a consoling letter to Gregory’s mother Lady Gregory, Yeats’s great patron, recounting his meeting with her son on the Western Front. Robert Gregory resented Yeats’s long sojourns at Coole during the summer and ejected him from the master bedroom. Gregory was much more than a fighter pilot who died in the first World War. One hundred years on, his relative Geoffrey O’Byrne White has posited an interesting theory as to how Gregory died. If so, it would have been the one developed by doctors in Trinity College Dublin and which saved thousands of lives in the first World War.

Source: The Irish Times January 23, 2018 00:02 UTC