Anna MacBride White is one of Maud Gonne's four grandchildren. She studied medicine at University College, Dublin, and currently lives in Dublin with her husband and four children. A. Norman Jeffares has taught at a number of universities and is the author of A History of Anglo-Irish Literature, W. B. Yeats: A New Biography; Yeats's Poems, and W. B. Yeats, A Vision and Related Writings.