Listen "WB Yeats"
Episode Synopsis
100 years ago, WB Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Dr Patrick Geoghegan looks at his life and legacy, his politics and his love of the occult, joined by esteemed panel Dr Adrian Paterson, Lecturer in English at the School of English and the Creative Arts at the University of Galway; Dr Lucy Collins, Associate Professor of Modern Poetry, at University College Dublin; Professor Roy Foster, University of Oxford, and the author of the authorized two-volume biography of Yeats; Professor Margaret Harper, Glucksman Professor in Contemporary Writing in English, University of Limerick, and formerly Director of the Yeats International Summer School and the President of the International Yeats Society; and Susan O'Keeffe, Director of Yeats Society Sligo.
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