RECENT celebrations of the great Irish poet W B Yeats (1865-1939) have included a fascinating appreciation of his life and work by Bob Geldof on BBC4. Here are two of Yeats’s short but best known ...

William Butler Yeats, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, was born in Ireland 150 years ago this week, and across the country, the Irish are celebrating with public readings and festivals.

There is also a Yeats theater; a county museum dedicated to his brother, the artist Jack Yeats; and the Yeats Memorial Building, which is one of the best small museums on an author I have ever seen.

The poet W.B. Yeats was born 150 years ago this week. In rural Ireland, a nun whose family has a personal history with the poet has turned a one-room schoolhouse into a small Yeats museum. We're about ...

The Stockholm Tidningin states that it is expected that the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded this year to Mr WB Yeats. The German author Herr Thomas Mann is also named as a possible winner.