William Butler Yeats

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No coherent proposal for reform has been put forward

Famous poem first published one hundred years ago

Our Going Coastal series continues with a stroll along a part of Co Clare with serious literary credentials, in a landscape that has its own natural poetry

America Letter: The film director’s views on the Irish form part of a new book

Irish poet’s 90-minute performance the highlight of month-long Marché de la Poésie festival

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

Roderic O’Conor tops Irish sales at Sotheby’s

Pre-sale viewings in Dublin this weekend

Around-the-world bikers Carl Clancy and Walter Storey enjoyed a steam-heated room in the Corneille