At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism. Simon Starling, still from “At Twilight / The Hawk’s Dance” (2016), ...
A celebration of the amazing Sligo poet W.B. Yeat's on his birthday! It’s said that W.B. Yeats always thought that his words should be played out in song. Thus, it couldn't have been more perfect ...
W B Yeats at 150 somehow seems more alive than any other English-speaking poet of the last two centuries. He is no member of the Dead Poets' Society; his pulse is stronger than that of many poets ...
A rarely seen photograph of the Irish poet WB Yeats, taken shortly before his death, went on public display for the first time this weekend at the famous Lissadell House in County Sligo. Lissadell was ...
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Call to repatriate the body of the mother of W B Yeats from a ‘neglected’ London grave to her native Sligo
An appeal has been made by Dublin author Brendan Lynch for the repatriation of the body of Susan Yeats, mother of WB Yeats, to Sligo from what has been described as a neglected grave in a London ...
George Antheil, Bad Boy of Music (London, New York, etc.: Hurst & Blackett Ltd., 1947), 171. Antheil continued ‘the secret of my success in writing such true Irish music is contained in the fact that ...
A LMOST forty years ago I wrote, but didn’t publish, a few little essays about meetings with interesting contemporaries of mine. One of these was about my first meetings with W. B. Yeats. At that time ...
In the Guinness Storehouse on Tuesday night, they celebrated their 25th birthday with a party. And a fine party it was, ...
The genius of great poets almost always reveals itself early. But many of the sublimest works of the acknowledged masters were composed while the poets were either fast approaching old age or more or ...
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