The Yeats Building in Sligo is open from 10am to 9pm on Thursday to welcome poetry lovers. Everyone is being asked to bring a ...

Composer Brian Field has teamed up with poet Amanda Gorman to present a musical setting of Gorman’s poem “Hymn for the ...

Scholars have long maintained that WB Yeats was being fanciful when he claimed one of England’s greatest poets was in fact ...

B. Yeats' poem as my inspiration. The poem made me think what it would be like if you could pluck the cloths of heaven from the sky, stitch them together to present at your love's feet.

A day is dulled and dimmed if it passes and I do not pick up a book of poems in my library, browse in some anthology, find a new poem in the latest issue ...

Rabindranath Tagore needs no introduction. A multifaceted creative personality, he is one of the greatest stalwarts of both ...

Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote of Tagore that after Greek philosopher Socrates, Tagore was the first and truest 'global citizen' of the modern world. Tagore himself wrote to Sarojini Naidu, ...

Patrick Keane began teaching English at Le Moyne College in 1978. He inspire the school's Irish Studies program and directed ...

It would be no hyperbole to state that this is the English language answer to Chekhov; The Brightening Air, with its themes ...

Yeats called Gitanjali's 103 poems ‘the psalms of modern times ... He believed in agape (universal love in Christianity). But his agape was not a deity or god. Nor did it have a definite ...

Setting the table with sandwiches is Dermot’s estranged wife Lydia (Hannah Morrish), desperately in love with him and pleading for ... but most particularly to Brian Friel, WB Yeats (from whose poem ...

Many far-right groups in Ireland now appropriate traditional symbols of Irishness and present themselves as guardians of a ‘pure’ Irish nation ...