Growing Old with Yeats

In our literary exploration of the writers of Dublin, Yeats has been my favorite writer thus far. His poetics —…

Yeats and the Occult

One thing I found interesting when exploring the Yeats exhibition was his collection of prose works. Since I hadn’t read…

Reading Yeats got me thinking about spirals both in the past and the present. After reading “The Second Coming”, I…

I found this week’s introduction to Irish poetry to be such an intriguing and wonderful experience. Yeats’s various poems vividly…

I wasn’t sure what I was looking for in W.B. Yeats’s digital exhibit on the National Library of Ireland’s site,…

Though we did not visit any locations in Ireland for this week’s diary, our imaginations were given free range to…

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;…

This week for our travel diaries we visited the Abbey Theater, taking a look at the stage and lounge as…

As I journeyed into the Abbey Theatre, one consistent word kept repeating itself in my head: community. Located on a…

After exploring the Abbey Theatre as it’s represented in various formats, the importance of space and how it is represented…