WB Yeats

The answer to Trump is blowin’ in the wind | Letters

Letters: A new Bob Dylan is needed to inspire protest against Trumpism, writes Toby Wood. Plus letters on Donald Trump’s inauguration from Patrick Owen, Cris Yelland, John Blake, Ian Cunningham, Richard Barnard, John Beer, Jane Barrett, Charles Jeffrey, Helen Keating, Rae Street, Pete Lavender and Tom Stubbs

21, Jan, 2025 @5:55 PM

Yeats’ play on sale for £125,000 – thanks to message from the dead

A 1924 seance has solved the mystery surrounding a signed copy of the dramatist’s first play

David Barnett

29, Oct, 2023 @10:00 AM

Ocean views and authors lost: a literary tour of Ireland’s wild west coast

The wild west coast from Cork up to Donegal has captivated writers from Yeats to Synge and Charlotte Brontë – as well as a host of lesser-known talent

Vic O'Sullivan

14, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM

‘Only the great writers are misquoted’: Dublin marathon medal has wrong Yeats quote

‘There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t met yet’ is engraved beneath an image of the Nobel-winning Irish poet. Only he didn’t write it

Ella Creamer

12, Sep, 2023 @11:46 AM

‘Bitter, gentle, funny’: Irish stars unite to celebrate overlooked poet Patrick Kavanagh

Celebrities including Bono and Liam Neeson hope to bring their homeland’s bard to a global audience with an album of read poems

Rory Carroll in Dublin

18, Sep, 2022 @1:00 PM

Poetic justice: WB Yeats’s time in London to be celebrated at last

Years of campaigning will come to fruition this week with the unveiling of a sculpture in Bedford Park to the great writer

Vanessa Thorpe

04, Sep, 2022 @7:00 AM

Eimear McBride: ‘I despise wafty, goalless female protagonists’

The novelist on growing out of DH Lawrence, the joy of James Joyce and the sound of WB Yeats

Eimear McBride

02, Sep, 2022 @9:00 AM

Sex in 1945? There was a war on | Brief letters

Brief letters: Drunken revelations | 77th birthdays | WB Yeats on Boris Johnson | Insanity and the Tories | Know your garden

Letters

21, Jul, 2022 @5:00 PM

The forgotten ‘weird sisters’ of WB Yeats who helped forge Irish identity

Overlooked except for a scornful reference in Ulysses, Elizabeth and Lily ran a vibrant women-only arts and crafts enterprise

Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

20, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM

Was Joe Biden trolling Britain with his choice of poetry – or choosing his words perfectly?

You can tell a lot about a leader from the poems they quote, as the president’s speech to US air force personnel proved this week

Zoe Williams

13, Jun, 2021 @6:00 AM

Denis Donoghue obituary

Literary critic who defended traditional values against campus radicals

Eric Homberger

28, May, 2021 @4:54 PM

Will bad leadership on Covid go unpunished?

Letters: Don’t blame the UK’s Covid death toll on our rule-averse culture, writes Robert Webb. Philip Clayton fears the government’s blunders will be rewarded, while Adrian Paterson traces literary references to an earlier pandemic