The second was the controversy over the Abbey production of The Playboy of the Western World - 'there were reasons for ...

There have been many biographies of Yeats over the past fifteen years, culminating in Roy Foster’s magisterial two-volume ‘official’ work (completed in 2003), so you might wonder what the case is for ...

Jack Yeats lived his life in the shadow of his elder brother, the poet, the famous W B. Yeats, who was to become Ireland’s greatest painter, was born in London in 1871, at Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill, ...

Irish author William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature on November 14, 1923. We take a look at Yeats' life. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats ...

As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my soul. William Butler Yeats, widely considered one of the greatest poets of the English ...

Where the poetry of David Brooks and Jill Jones intersects is their detailing of domestic life and drawing attention to ...

A Christmas advert from a pub in Northern Ireland has left viewers in tears, with some claiming that it's better than John ...

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, ...

All ferry sailings between Ireland and Wales on the central Irish Sea have been cancelled today due to damage caused by Storm ...

Whatever it means to be Irish—whatever qualities of heart and mind, whatever generosity and love for the very earth and rocks ...

The earliest of Mercury’s craters were named in 1976, when artists including Vincent van Gogh, Titian and Pierre-Auguste ...