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3 days ago · William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
2 days ago · The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which Hemingway called “The Swedish Thing”, is honoured by a formal-dress royal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, followed by weeklong banquets, speeches, forums, exhibitions, concerts and torchlight processions.
1 day ago · Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.
2 days ago · 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
3 days ago · Douglas Hyde proposed de- Anglicization; Yeats proposed "Hiberno-English", and his work at the Abbey Theatre and early poetry romanticizing Irish culture and customs helped that rise in feeling. In the 1890s, Yeats emerged as one of the decade's foremost verse writers.
1 day ago · “I made it out of a mouthful of air.”—W. B. Yeats We breathe and so we write; the night hums softly its accompaniment. Pale phosphors burn; the page we turn leads onward, and we smile, content. And what we mean we write to learn: the vowels of love, the consonants’ strange golden weight, each plosive’s shape— curved like the heart.
1 day ago · An outstanding painting by Jack Yeats created in his 85th year demonstrated his amazing artistic talent and rightfully claimed top hammer price of €210,000 (lot 30, Top Of The Tide). Paul Henry’s STONY FIELDS OF KERRY attracted a winning bid of €180,000, and Leo Whelan’s portrait of Michael Collins went for €60,000 to a collector with ...
