March 3rd-8th: From royal drama Mary & George to Imelda May on WB Yeats’s forgotten sisters
WB Yeats
Those on both sides of the unity argument need to find answers that go beyond sloganeering
A rich legacy and a vital part of the story of the arts in Ireland
The playwright and landowner died this month 100 years ago but his legacy lives on in a veritable treasure house of the Celtic Revival in Loughrea’s cathedral
The Stephen’s Green Club, in Dublin, honoured the poet with a celebratory dinner. The programme is a portal to a transformative period of Irish history
Daniel Mulhall covers the main elements of the poet’s life from his fascination with the occult to his relationship with fascism and eugenics
One of the great ironies of the censorship crusade was that so much “evil” under Irish noses was ignored
The historian discusses an array of subjects, including the damage wrought by Brexit, comparing WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why ‘the whole revisionism thing is over’
The Dublin Marathon medal howlers raise the question of what is going on in a culture supposedly more educated than ever before
One hundred years ago this week, The Irish Times was first to tell the poet he was set to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. We then published this series of articles
Yeats did not know that 1923, the year of his Nobel prize, did not mark his first nomination but his seventh
The author wins greatest prize in world literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The poems are the jumping-off point for a fast-moving aerial dance show in collaboration with Ceol Connected
I disapprove of erroneously attributed quotations, but I will defend to the death your right to erroneously attribute them, as Voltaire definitely said
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