And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made" I'd had the picture in my mind forever, that is ever since I first read William Butler Yeats' famous poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." It was ...

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.” ...

The relationship between W.B. Years and Sligo stretched back generations and can be discovered through the life of his father, John Butler Yeats Yeats always maintained that Sligo was the domain and ...