The mural is inspired by William Butler Yeats’ poem, ‘He wishes for the cloths of Heaven’. Friz, who is from Northern Ireland, was selected from the numerous applications received based on ...

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?” ...

“No, you’re a fascist.” As William Butler Yeats famously told us at another precarious moment in history, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer ... the centre cannot hold.” And amid the ...

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 ...

Irish author William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature on November 14, 1923. We take a look at Yeats' life. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 was awarded to William Butler Yeats ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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