WB Yeats
W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which ranges from folklore to modernist themes, has had a profound influence on poetry and is marked by his deep engagement with Irish identity and mythology.
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Anne Yeats is the daughter of WB Yeats, Jack B Yeats' brother.
Jack B Yeats home studio contents up for auction – The Irish Times
Ireland· 2026-03-06
WB Yeats blamed Joseph Holloway for helping orchestrate the 1907 Playboy riots.
‘As Irish as the pigs of Drogheda’ – Frank McNally on rise and fall of street singer Mary Connolly – The Irish TimesIreland· 2026-02-05
John Hughes was a friend of WB Yeats, who predeceased him.
Frank McNally on the ‘tragedy’ of a great Irish sculptor, John Hughes – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-12-10
The determination a century ago to close off the possibility of petitioning parliament through a private Bill to enable a divorce led to one of poet WB Yeats’s most famous speeches.
Enoch Burke’s ferocious desire for martyrdom has roots in Irish life – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-11-27
Yang believes all the great Irish literary figures have ghosts and that’s why the city is full of ghosts.
‘Dublin should be a joyful city but there is a certain sadness floating in the air’ – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-09-23
WB Yeats is referenced in the context of a misattributed quote that has become popular in Irish culture.
Here it was again, the phantom Yeats quote in an Irish pub in Perpignan – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-09-15
WB Yeats was a renowned poet and brother of Susan Yeats, who started the Dun Emer Guild.
how a Victorian artist went viral – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-09-02
Joanna Lumley expresses her admiration for WB Yeats and his poetry.
‘I love Ireland as much as you can if you’re not an Irish person’ – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-07-27
WB Yeats is one of the Irish writers who has written about cats.
Never employ a cat. They are ‘unreliable, capricious and liable to absenteeism’ – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-07-07
WB Yeats was among those who campaigned against the vandalism at Tara.
A Hill to Die OnIreland· 2025-06-26
WB Yeats was a prominent writer who mourned AE at his graveside, acknowledging his multifaceted talents.
Why George William Russell deserves to be a household name again – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-06-18
Kevin Barry mentions WB Yeats in relation to the Abbey Theatre's history.
‘You can almost fool yourself into thinking there’s no class system in rural Ireland’ – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-06-06
WB Yeats spent his last days in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
Secluded residence – Frank McNally on the challenge of understanding (or even finding) Eileen Gray’s famous French villa – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-05-21
WB Yeats was a notable witness for the plaintiff, describing O'Donnell as a 'novelist of great promise'.
Red into the record – Frank McNally on Peadar O’Donnell’s libel case against the Irish Rosary magazine – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-05-15
Poet, WB Yeats – by then a senator – travelled on Irish, not British documents, to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Not just a travel document but a declaration of hope and of reclaiming identity – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-05-05
WB Yeats promoted the idea that William Blake was of Irish descent.
Was William Blake, one of England’s greatest poets, actually Irish? – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-04-30
The author references WB Yeats in the context of asking what values might be founded upon in an enlightened republic.
For a united Ireland to work messy compromises will be needed, but we can’t gift Irish identity to the far-right – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-04-27
WB Yeats suggested that Casimir Markievicz's plays were the work of a man who struggled with English.
A count in arrears – Frank McNally on a first-ever solo exhibition of the life and work of Casimir Markievicz – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-04-23
As in the WB Yeats poem, to hear the call of Plato’s ghost and ask 'what then?'.
Messy compromises will be needed to make a united Ireland work but we can’t gift Irish identity to the far-right – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-04-23My parents gave me a first edition of WB Yeats’s Irish Fairy Tales for my 50th birthday.
‘I’m lucky to see the work done by teachers. They are undervalued’ – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-03-29
WB Yeats is mentioned as having his best work still to come in 1896.
We have enough Sad Irish Girl Wanders Around Dublin novels – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-03-27
WB Yeats was greatly influenced by William Allingham and thought his loyalties were to his Donegal locality.
Gnomes of Donegal - Frank McNally on William Allingham’s peculiar brand of Irishness – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-03-18
WB Yeats spoke of Innisfree’s 'purple glow' from Chiswick in London.
Why do so many Irish men - from the rugby team to Paul MescalIreland· 2025-03-13
WB Yeats was a guest at George Moore's garden party and later found Moore depressed over a cat incident.
Moore the Merrier - Frank McNally on the commemoration of a famous Irish garden party from 1902 – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-03-06
WB Yeats's influence on Colquhoun's magical and artistic projects can’t be overestimated.
The forgotten ‘Celtic fringe’ surrealist who could be art’s next big star – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-02-16
My top favourite is WB Yeats’s When you are old, inspired by Ronsard’s Quand Vous Serez bien vieille.
poems to celebrate the love of your life – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-02-14
