A sparkling portrait of the places that inspired Yeats

The poetry of WB Yeats is firmly embedded in the Irish psyche

Darragh McManus

‘I will arise and go now...”

You know the rest of that line. We all know it, so deeply embedded are WB Yeats’s poems in the collective Irish consciousness. No exaggeration required, no flattering stereotypes about “lyrical Irish quoting poetry at the drop of a hat”.