“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was ...

THE iconic Abbey Theatre, a cornerstone of Irish culture, first opened its doors to the public in 1904, writes.

Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’ gave us the unforgettable ... and the playwrights of the Irish Literary Theatre. Starring Maud Gonne in the title role, it was a huge popular success and was revived ...

The Yeats sisters built careers in their own ... which specialised in embroidery and handprinted books and prints of the Irish literary revival, employed only women - 20 to 30 at any one time.

In 1894 he published The Irish Literary Revival, the first history of the cultural movement, in which he wondered whether Yeats had ‘not really done his best work, or if there is, or will be much in ...

Thoor was his own translation of the Irish ... Literature in 1923: The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933). In Meditations in Time of Civil War (in The Tower collection ...

From Anna Burns to Suzanne O’Sullivan, writing by Irish women is undergoing a revival. Novelist Jan Carson looks at what’s contributed to recent successes. Recently there’s been much talk of ...

Standish O'Grady and the historical imagination of Irish modernism Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby 3. Yeats ... of Modernism and the Celtic Revival (Cambridge, 2001), Reading the Modernist ...

In The Irish ... of books on WB Yeats and Lady Gregory. He is currently working on an authorised biography of Lady Gregory for Oxford University Press; Anne Margaret Daniel, a literature and ...

The following is an example of the type of question you will get. An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by William Butler Yeats deals with the futility of war. Look again at this poem, and at one ...