WB Yeats

One of the great ironies of the censorship crusade was that so much “evil” under Irish noses was ignored

The historian discusses an array of subjects, including the damage wrought by Brexit, comparing WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why ‘the whole revisionism thing is over’

The Dublin Marathon medal howlers raise the question of what is going on in a culture supposedly more educated than ever before

One hundred years ago this week, The Irish Times was first to tell the poet he was set to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. We then published this series of articles

Yeats did not know that 1923, the year of his Nobel prize, did not mark his first nomination but his seventh

The author wins greatest prize in world literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable’

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The poems are the jumping-off point for a fast-moving aerial dance show in collaboration with Ceol Connected

I disapprove of erroneously attributed quotations, but I will defend to the death your right to erroneously attribute them, as Voltaire definitely said

Organisers concede there is lack of evidence that phrase actually came from poet

Remembering Bobby Kennedy on the campaign trail

To explore the success of Irish artists without mentioning Haughey is like staging Hamlet without the prince

People advised her to ‘just shut up and sing’. But there was no separating the singer from the song

De Búrca Rare Books has treasures for sale on the secondary market, including books by Yeats once owned by the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the actor John Mills

Evelyn Gleeson - a woman without whom the siblings might never have become the powerhouses they were

An Irish Times article on the controversy over the poet’s remains provided the creative spark for young French radio journalist Maylis Besserie

Translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin, the French author’s new novel concerns the endgame of WB Yeats

More than 100 artists have contributed small paintings to an exhibition that is touring a country where the poet exerted much influence

Dr Audrey Whitty wants to ‘showcase our beautiful building, introduce our national collections and meet visitors face to face’

The singer-songwriter has gone back to his family folk roots via his new album, Folkocracy, and found it’s not such an uncomfortable place to be

In what was a heady year we also got the first Irish stamp, a customs border and WB Yeats’s Nobel medal