Stradivarius bids to match Yeats feat in Ascot Gold Cup

Aidan O’Brien supplements Serpentine as John Gosden’s star bids for four-in-a-row

Diarmaid Ferriter: How can you be Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and Gaeltacht?

The arts have long been starved of funding and given a minor role in government policy

Bob Dylan: where to start in his back catalogue

The album to listen to first, three to check out next and a song of 12 dreamlike verses

A bad day for Ben Bulben as Yeats performance abandoned

Mountain-top staging of Yeats’s ‘Purgatory’ called off due to heavy rainfall

Yeats 150 begins with poetry reading for year-long celebration

Some 85,000 overseas visitors expected to honour life and work of the poet

In a word . . .

. . . Halloween

Blue-Eyed Hawk: Under the Moon

No summer stasis: seasonal schools for adults

Schools that focus on trad music, Irish dance, Beckett, Joyce, Parnell, Yeats and public policy should keep adults of all stripes busy

President Michael D Higgins’ visit to Palace of Westminster ‘historic’

From intimacy on the guitar, to a percussive musical storm

Roland Dyens was in charming form at the Guitar Festival of Ireland, while Mantra Percussion tried to take the Drogheda Arts Festival by storm

Artistic flair on Belgrave Square

The Brother sells six-bedroom period Monkstown home for €1.7m

The illumination of WBY

Biography/Seamus Deane: This is the second of Roy Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats

WB Yeats's most uncommon marriage

LETTERS: ADRIAN FRAZIER reviews WB Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters Edited by Ann Saddlemyer Oxford University Press, 578pp…

Home truths about Home Rule

Sir, – While I wholeheartedly agree with Eoghan McSwiney’s (April 14th) analysis of John Redmond, I feel he is rather unfair…