A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland after almost 100 years
Nephew of painter Hannah Gluckstein, a member of poet’s late circle, approached embassy with information in 1978
Attitudes to her have been reductive, shaped by the mores of the time and her failed marriage
Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise
The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024
The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
Four-star 98 bed Yeats Country Hotel is in picturesque village of Rosses Point
The city is a soulful playground for the kind of people who have spectacles on their nose and autumn in their hearts
Sally and James North suggest the Druidic tradition and Brehon Law enshrined magic in Gaelic culture and injected public affairs with mysticism
Maylis Besserie’s novel lays bare the cruelty of Bacon’s father as seen through the eyes of the family’s domestic servant Jessie Lightfoot
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
March 3rd-8th: From royal drama Mary & George to Imelda May on WB Yeats’s forgotten sisters
Those on both sides of the unity argument need to find answers that go beyond sloganeering
A rich legacy and a vital part of the story of the arts in Ireland
The playwright and landowner died this month 100 years ago but his legacy lives on in a veritable treasure house of the Celtic Revival in Loughrea’s cathedral
The Stephen’s Green Club, in Dublin, honoured the poet with a celebratory dinner. The programme is a portal to a transformative period of Irish history
Daniel Mulhall covers the main elements of the poet’s life from his fascination with the occult to his relationship with fascism and eugenics
One of the great ironies of the censorship crusade was that so much “evil” under Irish noses was ignored
The historian discusses an array of subjects, including the damage wrought by Brexit, comparing WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why ‘the whole revisionism thing is over’
The Dublin Marathon medal howlers raise the question of what is going on in a culture supposedly more educated than ever before
One hundred years ago this week, The Irish Times was first to tell the poet he was set to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. We then published this series of articles
Yeats did not know that 1923, the year of his Nobel prize, did not mark his first nomination but his seventh
The author wins greatest prize in world literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The poems are the jumping-off point for a fast-moving aerial dance show in collaboration with Ceol Connected
I disapprove of erroneously attributed quotations, but I will defend to the death your right to erroneously attribute them, as Voltaire definitely said
Organisers concede there is lack of evidence that phrase actually came from poet
To explore the success of Irish artists without mentioning Haughey is like staging Hamlet without the prince
People advised her to ‘just shut up and sing’. But there was no separating the singer from the song
De Búrca Rare Books has treasures for sale on the secondary market, including books by Yeats once owned by the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the actor John Mills
Evelyn Gleeson - a woman without whom the siblings might never have become the powerhouses they were
An Irish Times article on the controversy over the poet’s remains provided the creative spark for young French radio journalist Maylis Besserie
Translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin, the French author’s new novel concerns the endgame of WB Yeats
More than 100 artists have contributed small paintings to an exhibition that is touring a country where the poet exerted much influence
Dr Audrey Whitty wants to ‘showcase our beautiful building, introduce our national collections and meet visitors face to face’
The singer-songwriter has gone back to his family folk roots via his new album, Folkocracy, and found it’s not such an uncomfortable place to be
In what was a heady year we also got the first Irish stamp, a customs border and WB Yeats’s Nobel medal
A timline of events from the end of the War of Independence to WB Yeats winning the Nobel prize
Somewhat overshadowed by brothers WB and Jack, the sisters were a key part of the Celtic Revival and powerhouses behind Dun Emer and Cuala, creative outlets for female writers and artists
In Lady Gregory: Ireland’s First Social Influencer the unlikely pair have a merry time traversing Ireland to unpick the Abbey cofounder’s life
Ciarán Lawler finds himself in a Tokyo bookshop reading Peppa Pig Goes to Ireland
In the coming months and, with a bit of luck, years I will get visits from experts at home
One student recalled ‘it was easy to mistake his grand, rolling cadences for the voice of God’
JP McMahon: The hazel tree occupies an important part of our mythology
Dustin O’Halloran, Adam Wiltzie talk about their music, life and death, and staging their biggest tour yet
Gift yourself a stress-free Christmas with these luxurious places to stay
Author says he was phoned by Swedish Academy number shortly before announcement
Huntington Castle has a storied female past, with links back to Ireland’s pirate queen
A unique institution continues to accommodate those people of divergent political views
11 Nashville Park offers a Victorian house by the sea with 220sq m of space
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
