In search of the banshee and the elusive lennanshee
An Irishman’s Diary: ‘Leanhaun Shee’ is the Gaelic muse, giving inspiration to those she persecutes
WB Yeats’s trademark glasses for sale at €500-€600
Yet more items are to be auctioned as the family reaps a multi-million euro windfall
Paintings, letters and personal effects of Yeats family to be sold in London auction
Items worth €2.1m belonging to John Butler and his four influential children for sale
Dispatches from the theatrical front: a look behind the Abbey’s boardroom scenes, from 1904 to 1939
The newly digitised minute books of the Abbey Theatre’s board meetings during its early decades reveal a host of remarkable struggles, from attempted censorship by Dublin Corporation to artistic disputes at the top of the theatre
What happened when seven poets met to eat peacock in 1914?
WB Yeats and Ezra Pound were among guests gathered for memorable meal in West Sussex
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