Michael Butler Yeats was an Irish barrister and Fianna Fail politician.
10 Facts About Michael Yeats
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Michael Yeats served two periods as a member of Seanad Eireann.
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Michael Yeats's was the son of W B Yeats, a poet and Nobel Laureate who had served in the Seanad of the Irish Free State, and Georgie Hyde-Lees.
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Michael Yeats's sister Anne Yeats was a painter and designer, as was his uncle Jack Butler Yeats.
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Michael Yeats was an officer in the College Historical Society.
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Michael Yeats unsuccessfully stood for election to Dail Eireann at the 1948 general election and the 1951 general election for the Dublin South-East constituency.
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Michael Yeats stood at the subsequent election in 1954 for the 8th Seanad but was not elected.
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Michael Yeats stood at the first direct elections in 1979 for the Dublin constituency but was not elected.
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Michael Yeats resigned from the Seanad on 12 March 1980, taking up office in April 1980 as Director General of the EEC Council of Ministers in Brussels in the 1980s.
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Michael Yeats was married to Grainne Ni Eigeartaigh, a singer and Irish harpist.