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Sunday Miscellany takes a trip to Yeats country

The shadow of WB looms large in the lives of fellow-writers in his beloved Sligo

Sunday Miscellany • 08 Jan 24

Scattered Love is the second of a trilogy of books by Maylis Besserie inspired by Irish writers

Maylis Besserie's Scattered Love and the ghost of W.B. Yeats

We present an extract from Scattered Love, the new book by Maylis Besserie, translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin.

Books • 23 Jul 23

First Fortnight: Exploring the hopeful poetry of Heaney & Yeats

First Fortnight • 05 Jan 23

Sunday Miscellany: Memorable First Nights by Dominic Dromgoole

The theatrical first night's in Dublin that brought crowds to their feet - but for all the wrong reasons!

Sunday Miscellany • 26 Oct 22

Cheryl's Destinies - poet Stephen Sexton talks to RTÉ Arena

RTÉ Arena • 02 Sep 21

Sunday Miscellany: Dermot Bolger on Jack B Yeats

Via Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, Dermot Bolger on Jack B Yeats, the much-loved painter who "described everything twice"

Sunday Miscellany • 20 Jan 22

William Butler Yeats: Have not poetry and music arisen out of the sounds the enchanters made to help their imagination to enchant?

Reviewed: Yeats Now by Joseph M Hassett

In his thought-provoking new work, Yeats Now: Echoing Into Life, Joseph M Hassett investigates the poetic legacy of WB Yeats, and examines how th poems echo and reverberate in the canon of contemporary Irish poets.

Books • 03 Nov 20

Echoes: Joseph M. Hassett on W.B Yeats & Lady Augusta Gregory

Joseph M. Hassett, author of Yeats Now: Echoing Into Life, writes for RTÉ Culture about the depth of friendship between W.B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory.

Books • 02 Nov 20

Yeats Now: Echoing Into Life - read an extract

RTÉ Culture are delighted to present an extract from Yeats Now: Echoing Into Life by Jospeh M. Hassett, published by Lilliput Press.

Arts and Culture • 02 Nov 20

Watch: Fontaines D.C. frontman reads Yeats for The Works Presents

Grian Chatten reads from The Song of The Happy Shepherd by one of his literary influences, W.B. Yeats

the works presents • 23 Apr 20

Rain Man: Gene Kelly remembered, by his widow Patricia

The fantastic Patricia Ward Kelly, widow of the late legendary dancer and director-choreographer Gene Kelly joined Maggie Doyle in studio to discuss her new concert; Gene Kelly: A Life in Music...

RTÉ Radio 1 • 22 Jul 19

Colm Tóibín: essays on the fathers of our great writers

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín's absorbing set of essays, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce thrive on perspicacity and humour. The out in paperback this week.

Culture • 24 Jul 19

Seamus Heaney: generous space allocated to his biographical notes in Writers - Their Lives and Works

Book Review: Writers - Their Lives and Works

Over 80 biographies of great writers from around the world are smartly displayed in this coffee table format book. Six of the writers are Irish, namely Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney.

Book Review • 30 Oct 18

Watch: Olivia O'Leary reads a classic W.B. Yeats poem

In this Poetry Programme video, funded by RTÉ Radio 1 and the Office of Public Works, and made in association with Poetry Ireland, presenter Olivia O'Leary reads a favourite poem by W. B. Yeats, 'He wishes for the cloths of heaven'.

Poetry • 27 Sep 18

Gerald Dawe: astute observer and shrewd chronicler of the wealth of Irish literature of the twentieth century

Reviewed: The Wrong Country by Gerald Dawe

In his new collection of essays, poet Gerald Dawe surveys the work of WB Yeats and Samuel Beckett, along with reflections on contemporary poets Derek Mahon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Eavan Boland.

Books • 18 Jul 18

Major WB Yeats archive acquired by National Library

The National Library of Ireland has announced details of a number of major new Yeats acquisitions. These acquisitions include the purchase from the Yeats family, via Sotheby's, of more than 500 letters between WB Yeats and his wife George.

Books • 27 Sep 17

Maud Gonne in France - writing The Adulterous Muse

Author and academic Adrian Frazier explores the genesis of his revelatory new biography of Maud Gonne, The Adulterous Muse.

maud gonne • 11 Jan 17

Maud Gonne, the subject of Adrian Frasier's remarkable new biography The Adulterous Muse

The Real Maud Gonne - an extract from The Adulterous Muse:

One hundred and fifty years after her birth, everyone still knows her face, but her life remains something of a mystery. We present an excerpt from Adrian Frazier's new biography.

Recommended • 03 Jan 17

John Banville: Wexford I Hardly Knew You

John Banville's Time Pieces - A Dublin Memoir

John Banville's affair with his adopted Dublin is celebrated with ease and affection in this new 200-page work, which includes photographs by acclaimed photographer Paul Joyce.

Reviews • 15 Nov 16

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