The story of W.B. Yeats's tower, Lady Gregory's autograph tree, and the grave of Irish airman Robert Gregory, whose death inspired some of Yeats's most well-known poems.January 23, 2018, marked the 100th anniversary of the death in Italy of Ireland’s most famous aviator, Major Robert Gregory. His grave stands in a quiet corner of Padua’s elaborate Cimitero Maggiore in a … [Read more...] about The Irish Airman’s Grave:
From Padua to Kiltartan
W.B. Yeats
The Irish Airman’s Grave:
Last Word: Lessons on Leadership
General Martin Dempsey on what he learned from the writings of W.B. Yeats. I first became interested in the poetry of William Butler Yeats in graduate school. By that time I had accumulated enough life experience to help make sense of this prolific poet who wrote of folklore, history, romance, heroism, and mysticism in the years between his first published book of verse in … [Read more...] about Last Word: Lessons on Leadership
National Library of Ireland Receives Donation of Yeats’s Nobel Prize Medal
The National Library of Ireland has announced the receipt of the medal awarded to W.B. Yeats for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. The medal, valued at approximately $1.7 million, and the accompanying diploma were donated to the Library by the Yeats family and were received at a special event in April. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for his “always … [Read more...] about National Library of Ireland Receives Donation of Yeats’s Nobel Prize Medal
Weekly Comment:
Irish New York Celebrates
Yeats’s 150th Birthday (Photos)
By Mary Pat Kelly and Cliodhna Joyce-Daly, Contributors
June 12, 2015
June 12, 2015
“They must go out of the theatre with the strength they live by strengthened from looking upon some passion that could, whatever its chosen way of life, strike down an enemy, fill a long stocking with money or move a girl's heart,” W.B. Yeats once said.
And indeed the audience that packed with 1,200 people into Manhattan’s Town Hall on Monday, June 8, for The Irish Repertory … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Irish New York Celebrates
Yeats’s 150th Birthday (Photos)
150 Years of Yeats’s Sligo
On the 150th anniversary of W.B. Yeats’s birth we look at some of the places in Sligo that inspired his best-loved poems. 1. BENBULBEN and DRUMCLIFFE CHURCHYARD: At his request, Yeats’s body was laid to rest in France and later removed to the churchyard in Drumcliffe, under Ben Bulben mountain, where his great-grand- father had served as rector. St. Columba founded a monastery … [Read more...] about 150 Years of Yeats’s Sligo