I first heard WB Yeats’s poetry spoken aloud not by the reedy-voiced poet himself intoning on an early recording, or by a teacher at high school or a friend at university, but on an album that ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Yeats Society Sligo is partnering with the National Library of Ireland to celebrate the centenary of the publication of "The Second Coming" one of WB Yeats' best known poems. "The Second Coming" was ...

I’m not going to write about “The Song of Wandering Aengus”. Not the whole poem, at least. It’s a beautiful poem by one of the world’s most famous poets, but you know that already. So let’s just talk ...

Mike Scott continues a decades-long love affair with the words of Irish poet WB Yeats on An Appointment with Mr. Yeats, an album of brilliant, mystical music worthy of Yeats’s immortal words. I bought ...

One of Ireland’s premier jazz singers interprets the works of one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, as Christine Tobin performs songs from her award-winning album, “Sailing to Byzantium,” this ...

In his 1892 poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats fantasizes about a life lived in solitude on an island in Lough Gill in Ireland, where the poet spent his summers as a child. Earlier this year, as a ...

Tomorrow sees the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats. Dermot Bolger delves behind the public Yeats to visit the sanctuary where he raised his family, and argues that his poem, Easter 1916, ...