Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

which would probably remain obscure in the best of productions, are all too apparent in the present performance. Through the use of symbol-studded poetry, music, and dancing, Yeats tried to build ...

A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland ...

If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism ... read format it sets out some of the places that inspired Yeat's most popular poems. Throughout his life W.B Yeats was extremely mobile ...