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 ...

DUBLIN, Ireland – A terrible beauty has been sold. A rare first edition of one of William Butler Yeats’ most political poems, “Easter 1916,” was sold Wednesday at Adam’s auctioneers in central Dublin ...

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 ...

New York. The Macmillan Company. 12mo. xiii+362pp. $2.50. YEATS is inextricably associated in our hearts with Synge and Dunsany and Pearse and MacDonagh and Plunkett and the Celtic Revival and the ...

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 ...

THERE WILL be a screening today, to coincide with Yeats Day, of the short film by Sligo-based director Lisa Vandegrift Davala which uses words from Yeats' poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree and reenacted ...

Both President Obama and Vice President Biden resorted to Irish poets to make their respect and admiration for each other known to the world as both men leave office. The men were speaking at a ...