All these years later, the three poems are still deeply unsettling. After all, Yeats was a Nobel Prizewinner, an Irish senator, and a cofounder of his country’s national theater. If a man like ...

Shortly after this incident, Yeats was appointed a senator of the newly created Irish Free State, making him an especially prominent target; the houses of thirty-seven other senators were burned.

Senator William Butler Yeats, famed poet, stood up in the Irish Free State Senate, objected to Ireland “taking her marriage law from Spain.” The poet referred to the fact that there is no ...

Alice Miller travels through Ireland, from Sligo to Dublin, following in the footsteps of one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, Senator, Nobel ...

Yeats also stepped into the world of politics in 1922 when he was appointed a Senator for the newly established Irish Free State and served in the role for six years. In the late 1920s and early ...

One could have spoken for hours with Mr Yeats, but a poet who is at once a Nobel Prize-winner and a Senator, albeit the most courteous and obliging of men, has many claims upon his time ...

The death has taken place of former Fianna Fáil senator and MEP Michael Yeats. He was 86. Mr Yeats, who was the only son of the poet and playwright WB Yeats, joined Fianna Fáil in the early 1940s.