William Butler Yeats

Denis Donoghue: Why WB Yeats matters

As even the hostile critic FR Leavis conceded, in Yeats’s poetry ‘there is no element of a man’s experience in the twentieth century that, of its nature, it excludes’

From Celts to rough beasts: Terence Brown on WB Yeats and the Ireland of his time

The Nobel laureate’s early enthusiasm for a brave old world of glorious Celtic warriors ended in postwar disillusion and disgust

Joe Biden hails Ireland as nation that ‘stands for equal rights’

US vice-president says Irish recognised truth that everyone is entitled to respect in vote

Minister Flanagan praises ‘warm’ and ‘improving’ Anglo-Irish relations

Prince Charles spends second day of Irish visit in Sligo visiting ‘Yeats country’

Unthinkable: Should children be encouraged to doubt?

School debating is no substitute for Socratic inquiry, argues author and campaigner Peter Worley

Garden designer finds inspiration in the poetry of WB Yeats

A show garden for the upcoming Bloom festival is a tribute to WB Yeats

Belfast-born painter whose career spanned 50 years

Noreen Rice: February 19th, 1936 - March 19th, 2015

St Patrick’s Day: News, colour and fun across the island

The news from Dublin to Kerry; Belfast to Cork; Sligo to Waterford

Ah go on, go on: foodie presents for Mother’s Day

Irish mammies can be hard to spoil – many of them would prefer to look after you. Here are some ideas to ensure your mum doesn’t make her own Mother’s Day dinner

Shortlist announced for Ireland’s best loved poem

Kavanagh, Yeats and Heaney among contenders in A Poem for Ireland project

Ex-Ireland and Lions outhalf Jack Kyle remembered at service

Willie John McBride: ‘He was just one of the great men of this world, I am just proud I had him as a friend’

Sligo council withdraws objection to Lissadell boundary fence

Legal wrangle over estate ends with Supreme Court ruling over right of way

The end of Yeats: work and women in his last days in France

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

Address by Nelson Mandela to Dáil Éireann

Just months after his release from prison in South Africa, Nelson Mandela visited Ireland in July 1990. The following is the full text of his address to Dáil Éireann

11 members of 37th Irish army cadet class pay tribute to President John F Kennedy

‘I had far more nerves today than 50 years ago’ – retired Lieutenant Colonel John Dunne

‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire’: It’s an inspiring quote, but did WB Yeats say it?

Educators are fond of the poet’s remark but can’t agree about whether he wrote it