Tag: yeats

Yeats 2015 Giveaway!

This week’s Ireland month giveaway is a celebration of the greatest of Irish poets WB Yeats. During 2015 Ireland celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel prize winning poet. Cultural events centred on Sligo, Galway, Dublin, London and in counties across Ireland are echoed in a diverse international programme. It will be rooted in…

Announcing Reading Ireland Month!

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. George Bernard Shaw March is coming, and that means St. Patrick’s Day, but there’s much, much more to Irish culture than shamrocks (which, by the by, are NOT four-leaf clovers) and driving snakes out of the country (this never actually happened either). St Patrick wasn’t…