by Colm Toibin
father’s death and, 178–79, 183
father’s letters to, 130, 135–41, 159
father’s opinion on work of, 235
father’s paintings and, 114–15, 120
“The Folly of Being Comforted,” 108
“Four Years,” 177–78
gaze concept and, 107–8
Henry James and, 144, 148
“Her Praise,” 175
on his mother, 120–21
Jane Wilde and, 61, 63
Joyce and, 14, 15
Lady Gregory and, 19, 28, 110, 126, 179
magic and the occult and, 123–24, 147
Mancini and, 133–34
manuscripts of, 136
monument to, 26, 30
National Library and, 27–28
“A Prayer for Old Age,” 167
Purgatory, 183
“The Second Coming,” 108
The Shadowy Waters, 125
sister Lollie and, 130, 131, 132
“The Spur,” 166
“The Statues,” 1
“The Tower,” 164–65
The Trembling of the Veil, 61
“The Two Trees,” 107–8
Ulysses and, 18, 19–20
“When You Are Old,” 164
Wilde and, 18–21, 60–61
“The Wild Old Wicked Man,” 165
Yeats, William (grandfather), 19, 116
Young Irelanders, 92
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