William Butler Yeats was staying with an artist friend in England in April, 1916, when he learned that insurgents in Dublin had staged an uprising against British rule. The news "broke on his head ...

In times of political upheaval, the poetry of WB Yeats is frequently quoted, particularly The Second Coming, with its very repeatable and malleable line: “The centre cannot hold”. Leo Varadkar quoted ...

And Yeats came to be expert at the dramatic presentation of thoughts concerning love, death, the transience and hidden meaning of all things, not only in the form of a philosopher's speculation, a ...

Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Is this yet a country for old men? As Republicans gather in the Twin Cities, prepared to nominate their oldest first candidate for president ever, 72-year-old ...

What we can take out of Yeats' meaning in the poem below is that when we have got rid of the Seanies, Fingers and McNamara's Band, the crowd that will take their places are likely to turn out no ...