A series of events are taking place across Sligo to celebrate Yeats Day - marking 160 years since the birth of Nobel Laureate ...

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Irish poet William Butler Yeats died on 28 January 1939 in ... Cork author Frank O'Connor delivered this oration at Yeats's grave in 1965, the centenary year of Yeats's birth.

William Butler Yeats was born on June 13 ... The poem's refrain, "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, it's with O'Leary in the grave," is one of Yeats' best-remembered and most-quoted lines.

People flock by the coachload to Drumcliffe churchyard to visit the grave of the poem’s author, William Butler Yeats. Most would see the McKenna sculpture and read the poem first, as it was in a ...

YEATS is inextricably associated in our hearts ... He continues to surprise the reader by a fine excess, by a quiet and grave contact with the old perpetual grace of words; he continues to dust ...