Maud Gonne autobiography fetches €5,200 in Yeats auction
Funds to be used for WB Yeats’s old summer home at Thoor Ballylee in south Galway
Grand plans for WB Yeats’s ‘invincible tower’ at Gort
The 15th-century Norman tower Thoor Ballylee was home to the poet and his family for 12 years. An auction is planned to raise funds to turn it into a cultural centre
Behind the News: Fidelma Healy Eames, WB Yeats devotee
A big donation this week means that Thoor Ballylee, the 16th-century tower house once owned by the poet, will reopen this summer, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth
Theatre programme recalls brilliant coup that helped to establish artistic independence of Abbey
An Irishman's Diary on the battle between the Abbey and the English censor
The end of Yeats: work and women in his last days in France
Yeats had a late creative surge – including ‘one of the greatest ever death-bed utterances’ – before he died surrounded by his muses in France 75 years ago
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