Tag: Yeats

  • See Sligo through the eyes of Ireland’s national poet

    See Sligo through the eyes of Ireland’s national poet

    A new trail takes visitors around key points in the dramatic Sligo landscape that inspired the Nobel Prize-winning poet, W B Yeats. The new Yeats Trail visits 14 places in County Sligo that are deeply connected to the life and poetry of W B Yeats. It journeys through an area Yeats referred to in his poem Under […]

  • Feed your spirit with the poetry of WB Yeats

    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 […]