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# wb-yeats - Monday 28 January, 2019
Irish Ferries to take NTA to court after being ordered to pay compensation over cancellations
The National Transport Authority issued the notices today ordering Irish Ferries to pay compensation.
# wb-yeats - Thursday 20 December, 2018
€144 million WB Yeats cruise ferry sails into Dublin Port
The new ferry can hold 1800 passengers and will see passages to Holyhead in Wales and Cherbourg in France.
# wb-yeats - Sunday 15 July, 2018
Sligo honours WB and Jack Yeats with a unique arts festival
The event will include walks, art, literature and talks.
# wb-yeats - Tuesday 12 June, 2018
Irish Ferries cancels 6,000 summer bookings as new ship is delayed again
Irish Ferries was previously forced to cancel July sailings for the W.B. Yeats.
# wb-yeats - Sunday 8 October, 2017
WB Yeats chosen as name for new €144 million Irish cruise ferry
“It is a name that will convey a sense of magnificence,” said Irish Ferries managing director Andrew Sheen.
# wb-yeats - Wednesday 27 September, 2017
State spends €650k on WB Yeats' furniture and letters to his wife
In the past two years, the State has spent €4 million on archive material once belonging to the great Irish poet.
# wb-yeats - Thursday 16 February, 2017
Joyce thanks Yeats for his 'helping hand' in letters just bought by the State
Arts Minister Heather Humphreys said that an extra €500,000 had been allocated to acquire the letters.
# wb-yeats - Friday 13 January, 2017
Obama to Biden: 'I had to quote an Irish poet and Seamus Heaney was taken'
Seamus Heaney and WB Yeats featured in the speeches given by the men yesterday.
# wb-yeats - Friday 14 October, 2016
Why Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature
For fans of lyrics, or of lyrical music, Dylan’s output rewards thorough exploration like no other artist of the last 100 years
# wb-yeats - Friday 10 June, 2016
Yeats didn't come up in the English exam yesterday and the Leaving Certs are RAGING
Their Leaving Cert hopes are dead and gone; they’re with O’Leary in the grave.
# wb-yeats - Saturday 30 January, 2016
Finally, 9 important answers to 'Was it for this?'
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone…
# wb-yeats - Tuesday 15 December, 2015
Never-before-seen Abbey Theatre papers show how it fought against censorship
The minute books have been digitised and transcripts made.
# wb-yeats - Saturday 14 November, 2015
What is it that makes Irish people fight over wills?
Where there’s a will – there’s a potential family falling out of seismic proportions.
# wb-yeats - Thursday 5 November, 2015
Supercalifragilistic-expialadocious - Mary Poppins' Dublin home is for sale*
*Well, her creator’s, anyway.
# wb-yeats - Thursday 23 July, 2015
A bridge and a boat are set to get some famous Irish names
WB Yeats and a hero of 1916 are set to be immortalised in different ways.
# wb-yeats - Saturday 13 June, 2015
Interactive map tells the story of one of Ireland's most famous poets
It’s the 150th anniversary of Yeats’ birth today.
# wb-yeats - Thursday 4 June, 2015
One of Ireland's most famous poets is now on a coin
The collector coin has been launched to commemorate the 150th anniversary of WB Yeats’ birth.
# wb-yeats - Friday 20 March, 2015
Ireland's most famous writers have been turned into believable hipsters
James Joyce in a Vampire Weekend t-shirt.
# wb-yeats - Friday 13 June, 2014
Just Senator Susan O'Keeffe, giving a radio interview... wait, WHAT?
One for everyone whose minds are stuck in the gutter. (Which includes us.)
# wb-yeats - Tuesday 28 January, 2014
Open thread: What's your favourite WB Yeats poem?
Yeats died 75 years ago today but his work is still being studied in schools across the country. Are there any lines still floating around in your heads from your schooldays?
# wb-yeats - Friday 6 December, 2013
In pictures: Mandela's Irish visits
The South African leader visited Ireland on three occasions, most recently for the Special Olympics in 2003.
# wb-yeats - Monday 11 November, 2013
Lissadell House owners win long-running legal battle over rights-of-way
The Supreme Court has overturned an earlier ruling, which found in favour of Sligo County Council
# wb-yeats - Friday 11 November, 2011
Presidential poems: will Michael D quote himself during inauguration speech?
Or will he follow in the footsteps of his American counterparts and invite another poet to the stage?
# wb-yeats - Tuesday 23 August, 2011
Dublin writers' exhibition opens in the Liberties
W.B. Yeats was poor at spelling and Samuel Beckett was born on a Friday 13th…just some of the facts you will learn at the newly-opened Dublin Writers’ exhibition.
# wb-yeats - Monday 23 May, 2011
Irish musicians, actors and sports stars join festivities at Obama concert
Jedward takes to the stage at College Green to sing their Eurovision hit after Daniel Day-Lewis extended a warm welcome to the US president, incorporating the words of former president Abraham Lincoln.
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Poll: Will you pay attention to the Seanad general election?
COUNTING IN THE Seanad general election will begin today despite the Covid-19 public health emergency.
Postal voting in the election closes today at 11am for the 43 seats on the five vocational panels and tomorrow at 11am for the six seats on the university panels.
There are 118 candidates seeking election to the vocational panels.
Counting of the votes begins this morning and is expected to continue until Friday 3 April.
So, today we want to know: Will you pay attention to the Seanad general election?
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Opinion: Emergency Covid-19 legislation harks back to the Civil War, ‘the Emergency’ and the Troubles
By Conor Casey
Conor Casey of Trinity College says a challenge to the new legislation would be unlikely to succeed.
The Irish For: Kiltartanese and a passionate affair. The story of Galway's Lady Gregory
By Darach Ó Séaghdha - @TheIrishFor
Darach Ó Séaghdha follows the artistic path of one of Ireland’s most fascinating historical women.
Larry Donnelly: Kennedy vs Markey could be the last throw of the dice for the Irish American dynasty
By Larry Donnelly - @LarryPDonnelly
The Kennedy vs Markey battle is the distraction from Covid-19 we all need, says Larry Donnelly.
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