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Tuesday 24 November 2020
The search is being overseen by the HM Coastguard in Holyhead in Wales, but the Irish Coast Guard is providing assistance.
The National Transport Authority issued the notices today ordering Irish Ferries to pay compensation.
The new ferry can hold 1800 passengers and will see passages to Holyhead in Wales and Cherbourg in France.
The event will include walks, art, literature and talks.
Irish Ferries was previously forced to cancel July sailings for the W.B. Yeats.
“It is a name that will convey a sense of magnificence,” said Irish Ferries managing director Andrew Sheen.
In the past two years, the State has spent €4 million on archive material once belonging to the great Irish poet.
Arts Minister Heather Humphreys said that an extra €500,000 had been allocated to acquire the letters.
Seamus Heaney and WB Yeats featured in the speeches given by the men yesterday.
For fans of lyrics, or of lyrical music, Dylan’s output rewards thorough exploration like no other artist of the last 100 years
Their Leaving Cert hopes are dead and gone; they’re with O’Leary in the grave.
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone…
The minute books have been digitised and transcripts made.
Where there’s a will – there’s a potential family falling out of seismic proportions.
*Well, her creator’s, anyway.
WB Yeats and a hero of 1916 are set to be immortalised in different ways.
It’s the 150th anniversary of Yeats’ birth today.
The collector coin has been launched to commemorate the 150th anniversary of WB Yeats’ birth.
James Joyce in a Vampire Weekend t-shirt.
One for everyone whose minds are stuck in the gutter. (Which includes us.)
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?
The South African leader visited Ireland on three occasions, most recently for the Special Olympics in 2003.
The Supreme Court has overturned an earlier ruling, which found in favour of Sligo County Council
Or will he follow in the footsteps of his American counterparts and invite another poet to the stage?
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.
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.
IRELAND’S LEVEL 5 restrictions are set to come to an end on Tuesday next week, 1 December, and the government is set to decide later this week what will be implemented to replace them.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Irish Examiner this morning that the country will move back to Level Three restrictions from 1 December, allowing non-essential retail to reopen in time for the Christmas trade.
While retail stores look set to reopen, allowing people to get their Christmas shopping done in person, many people are still opting to do a lot of their festive shopping online their year.
So, today we want to know… Do you plan to do most of your Christmas shopping in person?
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