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Yeats150

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 by Leave a Comment

“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)

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