Stradivarius bids to match Yeats feat in Ascot Gold Cup
Aidan O’Brien supplements Serpentine as John Gosden’s star bids for four-in-a-row
Diarmaid Ferriter: How can you be Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and Gaeltacht?
The arts have long been starved of funding and given a minor role in government policy
Bob Dylan: where to start in his back catalogue
The album to listen to first, three to check out next and a song of 12 dreamlike verses
A bad day for Ben Bulben as Yeats performance abandoned
Mountain-top staging of Yeats’s ‘Purgatory’ called off due to heavy rainfall
Yeats 150 begins with poetry reading for year-long celebration
Some 85,000 overseas visitors expected to honour life and work of the poet
No summer stasis: seasonal schools for adults
Schools that focus on trad music, Irish dance, Beckett, Joyce, Parnell, Yeats and public policy should keep adults of all stripes busy
From intimacy on the guitar, to a percussive musical storm
Roland Dyens was in charming form at the Guitar Festival of Ireland, while Mantra Percussion tried to take the Drogheda Arts Festival by storm
The illumination of WBY
Biography/Seamus Deane: This is the second of Roy Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats
WB Yeats's most uncommon marriage
LETTERS: ADRIAN FRAZIER reviews WB Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters Edited by Ann Saddlemyer Oxford University Press, 578pp…
Home truths about Home Rule
Sir, – While I wholeheartedly agree with Eoghan McSwiney’s (April 14th) analysis of John Redmond, I feel he is rather unfair…
Rising to the challenge
With such a long tradition of complex and contradictory responses to the 1916 Easter Rising, there’s no reason to expect the …
Splendid, subtle and stimulating
LITERARY CRITICISM: Yeats & Violence , By Michael Wood, Oxford, 272pp. £18.99
Sense and separatism
Irish Studies: 'Ireland may be a separatist issue", observes David Pierce in his introduction, "but it is almost impossible …
A bitter account blind to balance
W.B. Yeats has been the subject of much scholarly attention in recent times.
Monument to a critic
Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature by Augustine Martin, ed. Anthony Roche, UCD Press, 259pp, £26.95/£16.95
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