[ranko]

W B Yeats, born in Dublin in 1865, put it like this:

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...

[EdwardDiego]

And to add the complex icing to the complicated cake, Yeats was Anglo-Irish, from a family that had come over as part of William of Orange's forces during the 17th century Williamite vs. Jacobite war.

(Technicality trivia - he was born in Sandymount, which wasn't part of Dublin until the 1930s)

[rsynnott]

Eh, that's probably pushing the technicalities too far. Sandymount was part of a a separate administrative region until the 30s (in much the same way that, say, SDCC is today), but for practical purposes it was part of Dublin, and it was contiguous with Dublin; I'm pretty sure even in the mid to late 19th century you could walk from the city centre to Sandymount without leaving the urban area.