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Feed your spirit with the poetry of WB Yeats
Look to the soothing words of one of the greatest poets of all time for comfort and inspiration. Irish poetry doesn’t get more enjoyable than when it centres on William Butler Yeats, arguably the most gigantic literary figure of a nation replete with giants of literature and whose influence certainly still shapes the English language […]
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Bloomsday Festival 2017
Celebrate Bloomsday in Ireland…. We’re delighted to announce that the full programme for Bloomsday 2017 is now live! We’re thrilled with this year’s action-packed schedule of food events, walks, talks, music and more, and today is The Celebration Day… James Joyce!! WHAT IS BLOOMSDAY? Bloomsday is a celebration that takes place both in Dublin and around the […]
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was born in Westland Row, Dublin on October 16th, 1854 to an eminent surgeon, William Wilde and the famous nationalist poet, Lady Jane Wilde, known as Speranza (her Selected Poems were published in Dublin in 1900). He settled in London in 1879. In 1882 he embarked on a lecture tour of the United […]