Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in ...

In his revered 1917 poem “The Wild Swans at Coole,” Irish writer William Butler Yeats describes the fabled birds as brilliant ...

Warren Zanes didn't write Deliver Me from Nowhere to become a movie, but he helped bring it to life for the new Bruce ...

Getting close to one of the big icons of Western civilization – the Acropolis, the Palace of Versailles, the Colosseum – can ...

Getting close to one of the big icons of Western civilization — the Acropolis, the palace of Versailles, the Colosseum — can be the | From pubs to museums to libraries, if you decide to target the ...

Hart’s downfall showed private lives were no longer off-limits and set off a heated debate over whether the press had crossed ...

Mike Scott of the Waterboys doesn’t like to use the word “obsession” to describe his particular affliction. When it comes to ...

A culture at war with itself is scary to behold, but at least it has produced Civil War, Eddington and One Battle After ...

The day after the Ides of March in the year of Our Lord 2020, I started a new (to me) routine: For an hour each afternoon, my husband took the kids to play outside, while I sat at the kitchen island, ...

And it's a reminder, too, of the wisdom of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats's 106-year-old observation in "The Second Coming": "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." ...

More than forty years ago, Brian P. Burns made a bet with himself: “Isn’t it possible that the Irish could be just as brilliant in the visual arts as they have been in music and literature?” The Brian ...

“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was ...