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 ...

In that sweet wandering snare. AS the lines above from The Musicians show, William Butler Yeats through his life was always interested in music and song. Indeed, he wrote the words to many songs, some ...

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 ...

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 ...

I imagined Yeats in one of the old chairs, his hands resting on the arms, discussing politics with the family and reciting his poem "Easter 1916," which describes the rebellion against the British ...

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 ...

“No one who likes Yeats is capable of human intimacy,” declares a character in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, quoted somewhat tongue-in-cheek by Joseph Hassett in this subtle and often ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, William Butler Yeats’s childhood summers spent with relatives in Sligo had a formative influence on the poet for the remainder of his life. The otherworldliness of ...