WB Yeats
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
Letters
02, Feb, 2021 @6:06 PM
Forgotten Plays: No 9 – The Words Upon the Window-Pane and Purgatory by WB Yeats
A drama in which the spirit of Jonathan Swift haunts a seance and an astonishingly brief update of the Oresteia confirm the poet’s remarkable skills as a playwright
Michael Billington
27, Jul, 2020 @5:00 AM
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