William Butler Yeats, a pivotal figure in modern literature, masterfully blended mysticism, politics, and folklore, ...
As St. Patrick’s Day celebrations begin, the contradictions of Ireland are worthy of reflection, PBS host Llewellyn King ...
I won't let St. Patrick's Day pass without wearing something green and reaching for a glass of something that has been produced through fermentation or distillation. It is the least I can do for all ...
I won’t let St. Patrick’s Day pass without wearing something green and reaching for a glass of something that has been ...
I forwarded an email to my friend Sam with the note, “Want to go to this?” “This” was something called an interactive concert featuring “The Second Coming,” Irish poet William Butler Yeats’s ode to ...
“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was ...
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He Proposed Four Times and She Said No Every Time: The Unrequited Love That Created a Nobel Laureate
In 1889, Dublin was alive with political energy and creative ambition. It was there that a 23-year-old poet, William Butler Yeats, met Maud Gonne, a woman whose presence would alter the course of his ...
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