The poetry of WB Yeats is central to the Yeats Day Festival, now in its 14th year. Once again, our global hashtag - YeatsDay - social media event invites people across Ireland and the world to ...

One of these studies (65.8 cm high) for WB Yeats by Rowan Gillespie (Lot 41: est €14,000 to €21,000) is up for auction at Bonhams sale of Modern British & Irish Art in London on June 18.

Yeats died on January 28, 1939, at the age of 73 at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France. He was survived by his two children, Michael and Anne, along with his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees ...

Yeats was ‘the mage,’ but AE was ‘the sage’, comparable to figures like Tolstoy and Martin Luther King.” O’Donnell emphasises AE’s role as a “universal connector” who blended art ...

North is surrounded by an all-male cast of examples for the poet, with references to WB Yeats, Percy Shelley, William Shakespeare, among others, and perhaps most prominently the romantic Spanish ...

W.B. Yeats was born on this day in 1865. Here is a quiz on one of the foremost figures of 20th-century English literature Published - June 13, 2025 05:09 pm IST ...

A book dealer who claimed he bought two missing and "extraordinarily rare" Seamus Heaney first editions worth €2,000 at a bric-a-brac stall has walked free from court.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o can easily be called the Chinua Achebe of Eastern Africa or Shakespeare of the same, but with less inclination to plays.

Israel's surprise attack on Iran had an obvious goal of sharply disrupting Tehran's nuclear program and lengthening the time it would need to develop an atomic weapon. But the scale of the attacks, ...

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For Yeats, Gitanjali was akin to scripture. He likened Tagore to the English poet William Blake, and imagined India not as an exotic Other, but as a mirror. As Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg ...

This list of the best hotels in Northern Ireland has been curated according to their location, style, rooms, facilities and dining options. Here is our selection of the best places to stay in ...