maude gunn that house station waiting a train, palace athena in that straight back and arrogant head.ne of them was yates' father. and yates' father got involved in the controversy over the playboy of the western world. when that play was premiered, irish nationalists were outraged because they thought it was disrespectful who were the peasantry of the area and there was an uproar and yates' father thought it was bad behavior and he just hated it so he took the nationalists on. and yates remembers that. my father on the abbey stage before him a raging crowd. this land of saints and as the applause dies out, of plaster saints his beautiful head thrown back and i said to bill, it's not my place to comment on your head, but no one i know has been more respectful of real saints and more bad to the plastered ones. so that's it. thank you very much. [applause] >> now, again half the people in this room can dispute every detail that i said 'cause they were also there. do we have a mic for the questioners? is that how it's going to work. so i guess i'll recognize you and mics will come to you