Pilgrim Soul by Daniel Mulhall: How Yeats helped radicalise Ireland — and vice versa
When William Butler Yeats took the phone call in November 1923 that informed him he had been awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature (the first Irish man to be so honoured), his initial response strayed perilously close to the greasy till by inquiring “how much is it worth?” He then celebrated by sharing a plate of sausages with his wife George as there was no wine to be had in the house.
Source: independent.ie