What is the name of the country where William Butler Yeats was born?

William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount, an affluent coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, on June 13, 1865. He was the son of a well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo, where his parents were raised, and in London, England. Yeats was the oldest child of John Butler Yeats and Susan Mary Pollexfen. Although John trained as a lawyer, he abandoned the law for art soon after his first son was born.

Yeats is best known because in 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honored for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation". Yeats is considered to be one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; his works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933). Yeats died in France in January 1939; he was still writing poems.