The family connection, and his desire to be forever in the shadow of Ben Bulben, would lead W.B. Yeats to request that Drumcliff be his final resting place ... Share your favorite stories with ...

Theo Dorgan explores the way the poet WB Yeats is ... reveal of his place in the national memory. And Ireland's president, Michael D. Higgins, himself a poet, ponders what Yeats would think ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago this month William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was awarded for “his always inspired poetry, which in highly artistic form gives expression to ...

In today’s episode, celebrated actor and director Fiona Shaw explains the lasting impact of her childhood introduction to the work of WB Yeats. Tuesday: Writer and cultural commentator Fintan O ...

In his influential book The Empty Space the English director Peter Brook wrote about what he called the Holy Theatre, or "the notion that the stage is a place ... not mention WB Yeats at all ...