The RTE current events show “Nationwide” is honouring the celebration “Yeats 150” with a dedicated programme, available worldwide on the RTÉ Player International from June 10. Presented by Mary ...

"Out of Ireland have we come./Great hatred, little room,/Maimed us at the start./I carry from my mother's womb/A fanatic heart." William Butler Yeats wrote these lines in 1931, lamenting the way blind ...

THE Anglo-Irish poet W.B. Yeats throws up considerable challenges to any would-be biographer. Yeats was one of the four great, mould-breaking, English-language poets of the 20th century (the others, ...

Airing on International Women’s Day, the film explores the lives of the sisters who have often been overshadowed by the legacies of their better-known brothers The documentary follows four decades of ...

It shouldn’t be surprising that an Irish poet and dramatist as prolific as William Butler Yeats elicits similarly verbose responses from authors and scholars alike. Unlike the many great poets whose ...

My summer reading project this year was to finish the two-volume historical biography of William Butler Yeats by R.F. Foster. I regret to say that I have so far completed only the first volume, ...

MR. HONE’S official biography of Yeats has been awaited with great interest by those many readers of poetry who consider Yeats to have been, in T. S. Eliot’s words, “the greatest poet of our time.” ...