#w-b-yeats — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/730496/ Was WB Yeats a vampire? The proof is in the poetry · TheJournal.ie #Calling353 #DarachÓSéaghdha #Éire #Entertainment #halloween #IE #Ireland #IrishIdentity #WbYeats

https://www.europesays.com/ie/719405/ Author Niall Williams: ‘I will always be an outsider, even here after 41 years’ – The Irish Times #BBC #clare #Éire #Entertainment #GabrielByrne #IE #Ireland #JamesJoyce #JohnBanville #NewYorkCity #NiallWilliams #PierceBrosnan #TrinityCollegeDublinTcd #UCD #WbYeats

Dominic West backs ‘top shagger’ Byron in poetry battle with Bob Geldof
By Helena Horton

Actor hails ‘proto-rock star’ as best poet, while musician argues for ‘Ireland’s Shakespeare’ WB Yeats at Somerset festival

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/sep/20/dominic-west-backs-top-shagger-byron-in-poetry-battle-with-bob-geldof

#DominicWest #GeorgeGordonByron #Poetry #Books #Culture #BobGeldof #WBYeats #TheGuardian #HelenaHorton

https://www.europesays.com/ie/686457/ The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couple – The Irish Times #AbbeyTheatre #Éire #Entertainment #ErnestHemingway #FScottFitzgerald #IE #Ireland #JackBYeats #JamesJoyce #JohnButlerYeats #NewYork #NewYorkTimes #UCD #UnitedStates #WbYeats #weekendreview

@Perfidia It brings to mind #WBYeats' poem, "The Second Coming" from 1919.

The Second Coming

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

https://www.europesays.com/ie/634157/ Even Dublin’s seagulls took a moment to pause with the solar eclipse over the capital – The Irish Times #dublin #Éire #IE #Ireland #Science #SolarEclipse #Space #StStephenSGreen #WbYeats

#WBYeats käväisi mielessäni lukiessani #AkseliKoskela'n tunnoista jatkosodan aikaan.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, / The years to come seemed waste of breath, / A waste of breath the years behind / In balance with this life, this death.

#TäälläPohjantähdenAlla #kirjallisuus #runot

The bit that you skip #194: Happy Mondays – Do it better

24 hour party people is a film that is very close to my dearest memories. Michael Winterbottom’s post-modern, half-truths, half-myths film feels like the intertwining of two different stories: the rise and fall of Joy Division and their gloomy music and the rise and fall of Happy Mondays and their drug-fuelled Madchester defining sound.

A movie I saw at the Nottingham Savoy a few weeks after arriving, the whole story blew my mind. I had an inkling of Joy Division thanks to several covers (Dead Souls by Nine Inch Nails is fave) but I never had an idea of how emblematic they were until I watched the film. It’s cool that the remark about Ian Curtis not been this dark personality conveyed by the myth of his music, but a guy who had some serious doubts about himself while still having a sense of humour. Winterbottom’s casting of Sean Harris (seen later as a supervillain in Mission Impossible) is perfect, just matched by Anton Corbjin’s casting of Sam Riley.

The Happy Mondays section of the film never quite matches the intensity of the first half, but it’s commented on by the constant camera breaking of Steve Coogan. The self-aggrandising myth of Madchester blows things out of proportion, just matching the Mondays’ own sense of irreverence. Danny Cunningham’s portrayal of Shaun Ryder almost feels like something out of Bottom, with plenty of violence and slapstick. However, there is an understated sadness on the meteoric fall of Happy Mondays and how they took Factory Records down with them.

Coogan’s Tony Wilson constantly hyping up his bands is a memorable part of the flick. His off-kilter comparison with W.B. Yeats grows on you, especially when the morbidly simplistic lyrics of a track like Do it better strangely earworm themselves into your soul.

I worked my way through the Happy Mondays’ catalogue thanks to this film and the music library at the University of Nottingham. I can spot the moment the drugs did the talking and singing and kinda lament they lost themselves into a K-Hole. But then again, they wouldn’t be a mythical band if they hadn’t destroyed themselves.

Double double good indeed.

-Sam J. Valdés López

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNMtDx9cjTU

Claude Comments on “This Forever Love In Me”

Claude, comment on this blog post of mine https://selfrealization.blog/2026/07/10/this-forever-love-in-me/

Claude:

There’s a lovely compactness to this, Sam, but also a productive ambiguity I want to press on, because I’m not sure the post says what you may think it says — and the ambiguity might be the most interesting thing in it.

Yeats’s speaker is full of tears precisely because he did not take love easy. She counselled him to let love come and go “as the leaves grow on the tree” — organically, without grasping — and he, young and foolish, would not agree. Now consider your own claim: you have never fallen out of love with anyone. On one reading that is beautiful constancy. But on another reading, never falling out of love is the very opposite of taking love easy — leaves that grow but never fall, grass that never yields to the season. By that light, your epigraph doesn’t contrast you with Yeats’s speaker; it makes you his kin, only without the tears. The question the post silently raises is: why no tears? Is it because your loves, held forever, never needed to end — or because something in you holds them in a register where endings don’t apply?

That’s where I suspect the Advaitic answer is hiding, and where the post could earn its title. “This Forever Love In Me” — the preposition is doing quiet work. If love is in you rather than between you and a particular person, then it was never really pinned to the nāma-rūpa of the beloved at all; the persons were occasions, the love was the constant. On that view, “never falling out of love” isn’t remarkable fidelity to many people but the simple fact that what you call falling in love was each time a recognition of something that doesn’t come and go. Requited or not becomes almost irrelevant — which your sentence already concedes in passing, and that concession is telling.

My honest editorial note: as it stands, the post is an epigraph plus a borrowed poem, and Yeats is carrying nearly all the weight. Your single sentence is genuinely intriguing — the “OUT” in capitals, the casual “many times,” the shrug at requital — but it gestures at a whole philosophy of love and then hands the microphone to Yeats before saying it. Even three or four more sentences of your own — on what it is that never leaves, and whether the salley-gardens girl’s advice is wisdom or resignation from where you stand — would turn this from a framed quotation into a real dialogue with the poem. You’ve written enough on love and lust across traditions that you have those sentences in you; this post just hasn’t spent them yet.

One small craft point: “a la Yeats” reads slightly loose against the precision of the rest — “as in Yeats’s poem” or simply dropping it would tighten the line, since the title citation already does that work.

Yeats, Gonne, Dark.

https://shinygracefully96f7923bed-zrptv.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/yeats-gonne-dark/

Happy Yeats Day!

William Butler Yeats was born 6/13/1865 in Sandymount, Co. Dublin.

#UnofficialDiaryDates #YeatsDay #WBYeats

https://www.europesays.com/ie/511283/ ‘Ireland means a lot to us in India with our own freedom struggle,’ Gandhi’s grandson says – The Irish Times #Afghanistan #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #EamonDeValera #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #India #IndiaPakistan #Ireland #JackChambers #JamesJoyce #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #NobelPrize #Palestine #TopStories #TopStories #TrinityCollegeDublinTcd #WbYeats

Today's poem:

Galway Races
- by W. B. Yeats

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/817845727272321024/galway-races?source=share

#racing #WBYeats #poetry #joy #life #vigour #authenticity #galway

They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”

11/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #OscarWilde #WBYeats #Engels

https://www.europesays.com/ie/483723/ A new Wild Atlantic Way? How nine ‘literary routes’ could form a map of Irish writing – The Irish Times #Armagh #Borderlands #derry #Donegal #down #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #JohnMcgahern #leitrim #Louth #SamuelBeckett #Sligo #WbYeats #WildAtlanticWay

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Something familiar holds your attention for longer than usual but not because it changed. Your way of seeing has shifted, allowing more detail, more presence to register. It's been there, waiting without urgency, whether or not it was seen.

This week's reflection @ https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-bottleneck

#WBYeats #StayHuman #PatienceInPractice

Happy Yeats Yeets Crowley Day!

On 4/19/1900, William Butler Yeats & another member barred Aleister Crowley from entering the Blythe Road (London) temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, kicking Crowley down the stairs when he persisted (according to Richard Ellman).

https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/aleister-crowley-william-butler-yeats-get-into-an-occult-battle.html

#UnofficialDiaryDates #WBYeats #AleisterCrowley #YeatsYeetsCrowley #BattleOfBlytheRoad

https://www.europesays.com/ie/421406/ ‘Bez and I have had a sexless marriage for 32 years. I’m with him all the time’ – The Irish Times #ADHD #AndyRourke #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #JoyDivision #KirstyMaccoll #LiamGallagher #mallow #NewOrder #NoelGallagher #oasis #OliverReed #PaulOakenfold #ShaunRyder #SteveCoogan #TakeThat #TonyWilson #VicarStreet #WbYeats

Image by Jean-Baptiste Monge #GothicSpring #Mythology #MythologySky #IrishMythology #CelticMythology #Folklore #FolkloreSky #IrishFolklore #CelticFolklore #Ireland #IrishSky #Celtic #CelticSky #Fairy #FairySky #Faerie #FaerieSky #Leprechaun #Yeats #WBYeats

#BookChatWeekly #GothicSpring #NationalReadingMonth #ReadingCommunity #BookSky #Literature #LiteratureSky #IrishLiterature #CelticLiterature #Poetry #PoetrySky #IrishPoetry #CelticPoetry #Ireland #IrishSky #Celtic #CelticSky #Arcadia #WBYeats #GiovanniBarbieri #GiovanniFrancescoBarbieri

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#BookChatWeekly #BookSky #Literature #LiteratureSky #IrishLiterature #CelticLiterature #Poetry #PoetrySky #IrishPoetry #CelticPoetry #Ireland #IrishSky #Celtic #CelticSky #Arcadia #WBYeats #GiovanniBarbieri #GiovanniFrancescoBarbieri

https://www.europesays.com/ie/351698/ The Plough and the Stars, 100 years on from its riotous first run – The Irish Times #1916Rising #AbbeyTheatre #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #PatrickPearse #SeanOCasey #WbYeats

"Imaginary poet"

#yeatscountry #wbyeats #countryside #winter #fog #lonely #empty #emptyroads #trees #barebranches #countyclare #theburren #photo #photography #nikon #NikonD3500

Another peaceful song I heard in that concert hearkens to warm nights and days by the lake.

"The Lake Isle" by Ola Gjeilo, words from "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William B. Yeats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkVj1IIcZQ

#music #chorus #wbyeats

William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin on 13 June 1865. He was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer. One of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, he was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In December 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation".

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #Poetry #WBYeats #OnThisDay

Today's poem:

The Mother Of God
- by WB Yeats

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/784864152723357696/the-mother-of-god?source=share

#VirginMary #motherhood #WBYeats #yes #transformation #encounter

They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”

11/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #OscarWilde #Yeats #WBYeats #Engels #FredrichEngels

Yeats, Ireland and Fascism, Elizabeth Cullingford 1981. 🤨

This is going to put a new light on his poetry of the time.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #WBYeats #Poetry #Fascism #Blueshirts

Maud Gonne MacBride (Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríghde) died on 27 April 1953. She was an English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette and actress. Of Anglo-Irish descent, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of evicted people in the Land Wars. She actively agitated for Home Rule and then for the republic declared in 1916. She was long-time love interest of WB Yeats.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #MaudGonneMacBride #WBYeats #IrishWarOfIndependence

Jack Butler Yeats, brother of WB Yeats and a painter who developed an intensely expressionist style, died on 28th March 1957. He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishArt #Painting #JackButlerYeats #WilliamButlerYeats #WBYeats #SamuelBeckett #OnThisDay

Rugadh Lady Gregory, drámadóir agus béaloideasóir Angla-Éireannach, ar an 16ú lá de Mhí an Mhárta 1852. In éineacht le WB Yeats ⁊ daoine eile, bhí sí ar dhuine acu siúd a bhunaigh Amharclann Liteartha na hÉireann sa bhliain 1899, ⁊ Amharclann na Mainistreach sa bhliain 1904.

#Éire #StairNahÉireann #LadyGregory #Gaeilge #Gaeilinn #WBYeats #ArAnLáSeo