Athletes who complete next month’s Dublin Marathon will be presented with medals featuring a quotation attributed to William Butler Yeats, despite the organisers conceding there is a lack of evidence ...

The Irish Life Dublin Marathon has shared a preview of its 2023 that uses a famous quote often attributed to WB Yeats, though there is no record of the Irish Nobel Prize winner ever saying or writing ...

The Director of the Yeats Society has said there is "no certainty" that a quote to be used on this year's Dublin Marathon medals, which are to pay tribute to Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats, was ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, William Butler Yeats’s childhood summers spent with relatives in Sligo had a formative influence on the poet for the remainder of his life. The otherworldliness of ...

In July 2010, Dublin was designated a Unesco city of literature. It was a fitting tribute, suggested this newspaper’s literary correspondent at the time Eileen Battersby; a recognition that the city ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — A quote often attributed to poet William Butler Yeats does not appear in his published writing or letters. President Barack Obama and California Gov. Jerry Brown are among ...

Director of the Yeats Society, Sligo Susan O'Keeffe. Over 20,000 finishers at this year’s Dublin City Marathon will receive a special W B Yeats themed medal for their effort but controversy has arisen ...

A medal which is to be presented to those competing in the Dublin Marathon next month has been inscribed with a quote attributed to the poet William Butler Yeats — despite there being no record of him ...

The staggering reach and speed of the Internet, and the almost limit less information to be found there, have fundamentally changed what we think we know. Unfortunately, that can sometimes mean that ...