W hen I first applied to the Weekender in the spring semester of my freshman year, I submitted a commentary I wrote on W.B. Yeats’ poem, “To a Child Dancing in the Wind” as a part of my application.

One of Ireland’s premier jazz singers interprets the works of one of the 20th century’s greatest poets, as Christine Tobin performs songs from her award-winning album, “Sailing to Byzantium,” this ...

W. B. Yeats at 150 somehow seems more alive than any other English-speaking poet of the last two centuries. He is no member of the Dead Poets' Society; his pulse is stronger than that of many poets ...

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His collections of poetry include "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889) and "In the Seven Woods" (1903). Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923.

From Brussels to Boise, President Joe Biden has relied on the same line of Irish poetry to talk about a changing world. Biden has quoted “Easter, 1916” by W.B. Yeats seven times since June, according ...

The Canopy, Sligo commissioned Sligo native visual artist Marian Noone, also known as Friz, to create a mural for the shopping centre and it’s now complete. The mural is inspired by William Butler ...

Mike Scott, aka the Waterboys, doesn’t work on a small scale. Even his earliest work reveled in bombast and bigness with U2 like intentions. Likewise, this two decades in the making set that marries ...

Korean budget beauty brand Innisfree, which opened its first US store this week, took its name from a poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The popular Korean beauty brand Innisfree opened its first US ...