Joseph Hassett

Funds to be used for WB Yeats’s old summer home at Thoor Ballylee in south Galway

The 15th-century Norman tower Thoor Ballylee was home to the poet and his family for 12 years. An auction is planned to raise funds to turn it into a cultural centre

A big donation this week means that Thoor Ballylee, the 16th-century tower house once owned by the poet, will reopen this summer, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth

An Irishman's Diary on the battle between the Abbey and the English censor

Yeats had a late creative surge – including ‘one of the greatest ever death-bed utterances’ – before he died surrounded by his muses in France 75 years ago