Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose
Who is O'Leary?
"September 1913" 38-39
"September 1913" 38-39
O'Leary was most probably a revolutionary who tried to save Ireland from the kind of place Yeats is lamenting about.
John O'Leary was an Irish separatist. He representid a very organic sort of Ireland free of self-interest.