QUESTIONS

Q: What was the extent of WB Yeats’s involvement with the occult? How did he come to have an interest in it? Jason Greene, by email. Q: What were Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens used for before they were gifted to the Irish State? Did they once have a house? Eileen Martin, Dublin 3. Q: Hollywood stars Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland are celebrating their 102nd birthdays this year. Have they ever met on or off screen?