article_snippet: a Yeats poem he described as 'Easter Sunday 1916 was about the Easter Rising, when Irish rebels began a violent attempt to force Northern Ireland to become independent from the United Kingdom, which succeeded five years later.
article_snippet: It actually broke out the next day, Easter Monday, April 24 of that year.
article_snippet: The use of Easter Sunday would materially affect the subject of a Yeats poem he described as 'Easter Sunday 1916, best known for its phrase 'a terrible beauty is born'.
article_snippet: Joe Biden's described Yeats as 'a Protestant hero in a predominantly Catholic country.'
article_snippet: But at night Ed used to recite the poetry of Yeats.
article_snippet: At today's Washington event the Taoiseach presented the Vice President with a book of Yeats' poetry, but told the Vice President the Vice President should not open it for at least another 25 years, 'when you are old and grey and nodding by the fire.'