Aidan O’Brien supplements Serpentine as John Gosden’s star bids for four-in-a-row

The arts have long been starved of funding and given a minor role in government policy

The album to listen to first, three to check out next and a song of 12 dreamlike verses

Mountain-top staging of Yeats’s ‘Purgatory’ called off due to heavy rainfall

Some 85,000 overseas visitors expected to honour life and work of the poet

. . . Halloween

Schools that focus on trad music, Irish dance, Beckett, Joyce, Parnell, Yeats and public policy should keep adults of all stripes busy

Roland Dyens was in charming form at the Guitar Festival of Ireland, while Mantra Percussion tried to take the Drogheda Arts Festival by storm

The Brother sells six-bedroom period Monkstown home for €1.7m

Biography/Seamus Deane: This is the second of Roy Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats

LETTERS: ADRIAN FRAZIER reviews WB Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters Edited by Ann Saddlemyer Oxford University Press, 578pp…

Sir, – While I wholeheartedly agree with Eoghan McSwiney’s (April 14th) analysis of John Redmond, I feel he is rather unfair…