Rare Yeats poem sold for €7.1k at auction

A rare first edition of the renowned WB Yeats poem 'Easter 1916' was sold for €7,100 at auction.

Rare Yeats poem sold for €7.1k at auction

A rare first edition of the renowned WB Yeats poem 'Easter 1916' was sold for €7,100 at auction.

A private buyer snapped up the poem, which was one of just 25 copies privately published by an English journalist the year after the rising.

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