When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved ...

November 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous and influential poems of the 20th century. It is titled “The Second Coming.” It was written in 1919 by the Irish ...

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 ...

For the month of June 2015 Drama on One presents a short series of programmes where poets will offer their personal responses and reflections on favourite poems by the Great Man of Irish Letters. For ...

Mistakes are instructive. In particular, they can become a form of analysis, as, for example, in sports or music, when getting something a little bit wrong leads to improvement in technique or ...

A series of events are taking place across Sligo to celebrate Yeats Day - marking 160 years since the birth of Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats. The Yeats Society is inviting people across Ireland ...

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 ...