Nephew of painter Hannah Gluckstein, a member of poet’s late circle, approached embassy with information in 1978 ...

The government ordered that a coffin filled with soil was to be brought back to Ireland if the body of executed Irish patriot ...

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 ...

A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry. ('Paudeen' - W.B. Yeats) However, it is the last poem on this theme that is the most direct and the most powerful. In it Yeats calls up the ghost ...

On it are John Butler Yeats, portrait painter, and sons Jack Yeats, the well-known artist, and William Butler Yeats, Nobel prize-winning poet. But what of their sisters, the forgotten Yeats women?

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login W. B. Yeats is recognised globally as one of the most significant poets of the past century. And yet, in his Nobel address, he singled out ...

The poet William Butler Yeats was also a prolific playwright, with no less than twenty-four dramas, two adaptations from Sophocles, and several unpublished juvenile efforts to his credit.

The second event in the series, on January 29, focused on W.B. Yeats with literary critic and cultural historian Lauren Arrington, author of the 2010 book W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, ...

To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in June 1865, five of Ireland's leading cultural figures reflect on their relationship with the poet, dramatist and prose writer William Butler Yeats.

Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work 'Gitanjali'. His ...