In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama ...
Ruth Concannon and Lisa Flanagan of the National Library of Ireland introduce A Hopeful Poetry, an online event for this year's First Fortnight Mental Health Art & Culture Festival, exploring hopeful ...
Yeats spent several of his childhood years and many of his adolescent summers near the town of Sligo, and from that Western countryside, so full of the beauties of lake, mountain, and sea, and from ...
As part of the Sligo Festival, the Yeats Society present Bosco Hogan reading the poetry of W. B. Yeats at the Hawk's Well Theatre on Sunday next, August 4th. Bosco Hogan's consummate skill and wide ...
Mike Scott continues a decades-long love affair with the words of Irish poet WB Yeats on An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, an album of brilliant, mystical music worthy of Yeats’s immortal words. I bought ...
The 31st annual Yeats Winter School will run at the Sligo Park Hotel from January 23-25. The event is an opportunity for those with a general interest in the work of W.B. Yeats to meet with academics, ...
WILLIAM Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three, stands well within the company of the great poets. He is still writing, and the poems which now appear, usually embedded in short plays or set into ...