Jack B. Yeats: Painting and Memory
Often overshadowed by his elder, Nobel laureate, brother W.B., Jack Butler Yeats occupies an exalted…
Browsing: W.B. Yeats
Happy Birthday Mr Yeats
In Ireland literary deities hover over us like U.S. Presidents carved into Mount Rushmore. It…
Declan Costello and the Decline of the Just Society
Fifty years ago a politician published a manifesto which, if implemented, would have changed the…
An A.B.C. of Irish Modernism: Apocalypse, Boredom, Crack
In a powerful 1997 essay, Seamus Deane suggested that the twin forces that beset modern…
Poetry in 2020: ‘Dream and so create’
At the end of 2019, I wrote: In these times it is perhaps inevitable that…