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William Butler Yeats died in the Hotel Idéal Beauséjoue in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in France on the January 28, 1939 aged 73. His wife Georgie and himself had often discussed his death, and he told her, “If I die, bury me up there at Roquebrune and in a year’s time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” His funeral was a discreet and private affair. His body was later exhumed and removed to the ossuary. Because of the outbreak of the war, it was not possible to bring his coffin back to Ireland for several years.

Kathleen B Curran, who began working for the Galway Harbour Board after she left school, would rise spectacularly through the ranks to become the combined Harbour Master and secretary to the Port Authority (an unheard of position for a woman in Ireland). She was intimately involved in all of the major events which the harbour witnessed during the latter part of the last century. But I am sure she took particular pleasure, as an Irish language enthusiast and a great admirer of the poet WB Yeats, when Galway was picked out to play a role in the great poet’s funeral.