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), ...

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Editor’s note: In his black and white photographic exhibition, "Into the Twilight – the Landscape of WB Yeats," Sligo photographer Ciarán McHugh captures the mystical Sligo landscape that inspired ...

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The poet W.B. Yeats was born 150 years ago this week. In rural Ireland, a nun whose family has a personal history with the poet has turned a one-room schoolhouse into a small Yeats museum. We're about ...

William Butler Yeats, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, was born in Ireland 150 years ago this week, and across the country, the Irish are celebrating with public readings and festivals.

In the poem, 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,’ W. B. Yeats expressed his personal feeling for his beloved Maud Gonne, an English-born-Irish actress, suffragette, and revolutionary. Today, on the ...

Huge critical attention will greet the publication of the second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography of W B Yeats undertaken by Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History at the ...