Scholars have long maintained that WB Yeats was being fanciful when he claimed one of England’s greatest poets was in fact Irish. But a new look at the story suggests an alternative possibility
Many far-right groups in Ireland now appropriate traditional symbols of Irishness and present themselves as guardians of a ‘pure’ Irish nation
The writer on his new picture book, the film adaptation of Darkmouth and kids who never seem to run out of questions
Plus: Marc MacSharry will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree; Sammy Wilson’s silence; and Henry Kelly’s political allegiance
Born in India, then sent home to England as a baby, the artist developed an affinity with the ‘Celtic fringe’ and the sexual preoccupations of WB Yeats
A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland after almost 100 years
Nephew of painter Hannah Gluckstein, a member of poet’s late circle, approached embassy with information in 1978
Attitudes to her have been reductive, shaped by the mores of the time and her failed marriage
Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise
The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024
The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
Four-star 98 bed Yeats Country Hotel is in picturesque village of Rosses Point
The city is a soulful playground for the kind of people who have spectacles on their nose and autumn in their hearts
Sally and James North suggest the Druidic tradition and Brehon Law enshrined magic in Gaelic culture and injected public affairs with mysticism
Maylis Besserie’s novel lays bare the cruelty of Bacon’s father as seen through the eyes of the family’s domestic servant Jessie Lightfoot
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
March 3rd-8th: From royal drama Mary & George to Imelda May on WB Yeats’s forgotten sisters
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
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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