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New Yeats2015 Video Showcases Stunning Sligo
February 23, 2016 in News, Yeats Day /by Yeats2015Today we launch a new video to mark the end of the hugely successful Yeats2015 celebrations. Be prepared to be enchanted as WB Yeats recites ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree‘ against the backdrop of stunning Sligo aerial footage. Also included are scenes of the Yeats2015 winning architectural installation ‘Square Moon.’
The Sligo pub which hosted a daily Yeats reading for a year
January 13, 2016 in News /by Yeats2015Probably the most popular participant at Hargadons pub was Joanna Lumley Via The Irish Times More HERE Courtesy The Irish Times
Arabic translation of ‘Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’
January 5, 2016 in News, Poetry Reading, Your Yeats /by Yeats2015Qatar University students translate “Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” More HERE
Yeats2015: 15 poets read their favourite WB Yeats poems
December 30, 2015 in News /by Yeats2015Lagan Press have coupled with Poetry NI to ask fifteen poets to read their favourite WB Yeats, to help mark the 150 anniversary year of the poet’s birth. As part of the commemorations, Your Yeats is an ambitious project to create an extensive online archive of live recordings of the poems of W.B. Yeats. We’ve asked […]
Gaelscoil Riabhach animation inspired by WB Yeats ‘He wishes for the cloths of Heaven’
December 22, 2015 in News, Poetry Reading, Your Yeats /by Yeats2015A stop-motion animation made by 4th and 5th class students of Gaelscoil Riabhach, Loughrea, Co. Galway, inspired by “He wishes for the cloths of Heaven”. #Yeats2015 Beochan déanta ag daltaí Rang 4 + 5 i nGaelscoil Riabhach, Baile Locha Riach, Co. na Gaillimhe. https://www.facebook.com/brian.omeachain/videos/1606027623006879/
Toronto Bengalis Celebrate Tagore-Yeats Friendship
December 20, 2015 in News /by Yeats2015On the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of the renowned Nobel Laureate poet William Butler Yeats, Bangladeshi Novels (an website of Bangladeshi novels) celebrated his friendship with the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore on 18 December 2015 at Albert Campbell Library Auditorium, Toronto. The celebration programme, presided over by senior Poet Asoke Chakravarty, featured discussion, Tagore’s […]
Unique Lady Gregory Portrait Joins ‘Yeats & The West’ Collection
December 17, 2015 in News /by Yeats2015NUI Galway ‘Yeats & The West’ Exhibition continues with the addition of a recently acquired portrait of Lady Gregory in 1912 Thursday, 10 December, 2015: William Butler Yeats, poet, playwright, politician, and Nobel prize-winner for literature, always looked west. Through rare books, art, music, drama, and film, the Yeats & the West exhibition at NUI […]
A Poem for You – Yeats2015 in China
December 11, 2015 in News /by Yeats2015The Embassy of Ireland in Beijing and A Poem for You celebrate Yeats2015 in China. A Poem for You is a well-resourced non-profit initiative to promote poetry in China, run by a company on behalf of a group of well-known Chinese cultural and business figures. Their main public activity is the release of a poetry […]
Yeats and the India Connection
December 9, 2015 in News /by Yeats2015Last weekend, the Embassy of Ireland New Delhi was proud to mark #Yeats150 with a two-day celebration of his work here in New Delhi. Dr. Keith Hopper, who lectures in Oxford but hails from Yeats country in Sligo, delivered the inaugural address, kicking off a weekend of lively discussion, readings and theatre. See more […]
