[{"node":{"title":"Boyd116","Collections":"Boyd Letters","Contributor":"Boyd Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Boyd116","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Orangism, Yeats","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/boyd116","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Boyd116_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 5-\n(As I wrote that last sentence a bomb detonated\nsomewhere in the city and I left this back bedroom and\nlooked out of the front for smoke, but the morning is\ntoo misty and I can\u2019t see more than a hundred yards).\n\nYes, we love parades, don\u2019t we? The Orangemen\nparticularly. They\u2019re Irish in that respect at least,\nthough they\u2019re unaware of it. But I mustn\u2019t go on about\nOrangism, though one of my grandfathers was a Past Paster\nof his Lodge and had an oleograph of Disraeli, Earl of\nBeaconsfield, hanging in his kitchen. Who Disraeli\nwas my grandfather neither knew nor cared: he was that\nkind of a man, ignorant as the dawn, as Yeats says\nsomewhere.\n\n(I hear the siren of an ambulance, and again any\ncontinuity of thought I had is broken)\n\nYes, Yeats, We are all still in his shadow, poets\nespecially. As for his drama, his best - I\u2019m thinking\nof Purgatory and The Death of Cuchulain - are wonderful:\nand all of them have interest. Still, Irish drama\nhasn\u2019t gone Yeats\u2019s way. Perhaps it will in the future,\nwho can tell?\n\nI\u2019ve come almost to the end of this letter and told\nyou little about life as we live it. Is there a life\nbefore death? That's chalked up in Ballymurphy.\n","Type":"Text"}}]