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WB Yeats
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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
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
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