Whiskey magnate, sheep farmer and WW2 soldier who met Yeats

Obituary: Alexander (Aleck) Crichton

Naval Service plan for ship with full hospital endorsed by Taoiseach

Latest patrol ship ‘LE William Butler Yeats’ commissioned in Galway ceremony

Grand plans for WB Yeats’s ‘invincible tower’ at Gort

The 15th-century Norman tower Thoor Ballylee was home to the poet and his family for 12 years. An auction is planned to raise funds to turn it into a cultural centre

Behind the News: Fidelma Healy Eames, WB Yeats devotee

A big donation this week means that Thoor Ballylee, the 16th-century tower house once owned by the poet, will reopen this summer, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth

Enda Kenny presents Barack Obama with hand-printed Yeats for St Patrick’s Day

Poetry volume presented by Taoiseach to president made by grandniece of 1916 leader

Celebrant of nature and laureate of Co Donegal

Francis Harvey: April 13th, 1925 - November 7th, 2014

Sligo out to resurrect fortunes after post-Celtic Tiger implosion

Like so many other places in State ‘capital of northwest’ lost run of itself during boom

Lissadell owners urged to reopen estate to public

Majority of callers to local radio station yesterday expressed anger with council, saying the people of Sligo would have to foot the bill

Yeats’s affinity with new media recalled

Poet’s 1930s embrace of radio discussed at Sligo summer school

Word for Word: a Swift start to July events

Wildlife service casts a cold eye on Gathering project

Plan to assemble 2,013 people at foot of Ben Bulben