The empty gap where a Yeats mural used to adorn a wall along the Inner Relief Road has been filled with art once more. Motorists waiting in line at the busy traffic junction can once again admire ...

W B Yeats at 150 somehow seems more alive than any other English-speaking poet of the last two centuries. He is no member of the Dead Poets' Society; his pulse is stronger than that of many poets ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, William Butler Yeats’s childhood summers spent with relatives in Sligo had a formative influence on the poet for the remainder of his life.

It ended, as magic duels often do, with someone being kicked down a flight of stairs. In 1900, the rivalry between poets and self-proclaimed magicians William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley had ...

HE WAS the first Irish recipient of an Olympic Medal following the formation of the Irish Free State. Yet it's not in sporting circles that one of Ireland's best-loved painters, Jack B Yeats, is ...

The poet in October 1932, arriving in New York aboard the S.S. Europe (AP) Seventy-five years ago today—on January 28, 1939—William Butler Yeats died at a boarding house on the French Riviera ...

We're delighted to present an extract from Yeats Now: Echoing Into Life by Jospeh M. Hassett, published by Lilliput Press. W.B. Yeats believed that lyrics can "take on a second beauty, passing as ...

Saturday marks the 150th birthday of William Butler Yeats, one of the 20th century's greatest poets. In far western Ireland's County Galway, Yeats found inspiration in the people and landscape.

The poet WB Yeats and Georgie Hyde-Lees spent their honeymoon at Renvyle House, the Connemara hotel known as "the silver-grey house". The "pirate queen" is Gráinne. Hers is Maud Gonne's face The ...

It is, stylistically, later Yeats. That is, the period when the artist had greatly loosened the bonds of representational convention. He was as likely to use a palette knife, or even his fingers ...