Figures show there are nearly 500,000 Irish Liverpool fans and it's estimated around 75 per cent of Liverpudlians have Irish ...

can furnish a profit to grand opera companies and an enthusiastic audience for Poet William Butler Yeats, does it not indicate that idealism hereabouts is triumphing over materialism?” ...

William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, died on this day in 1939. Editor's Note: Yeats was a pillar of the Irish and British literary establishment and in his ...

William and Jack Butler Yeats are icons of the arts in Ireland and internationally, and key figures in the identity of Sligo. The international make-up of our attendees is testament to their ...

Some, including the great poet William Butler Yeats, spelunked into a dangerous world of mysticism. Interest in Freemasonry increased. Fringe elements sought knowledge in the Rosicrucians or ...

US President Joe Biden quoted Irish poet William Butler Yeats during his address at the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 24. In the fifth minute of his ...

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The 1919 poem by William Butler Yeats is full of memorable lines, including “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” that can be conveniently applied ...

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One hundred years ago this month William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature ... and these become national cultural icons. England had Shakespeare, Spain Cervantes, the Italians ...

She is Maud Gonne, the muse of writer William Butler Yeats. Yeats here returns as a ghost, having been buried in southern France in January 1939 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Ten years later his ...