Colm Tóibín reads a short essay on Lady Gregory, Major Robert Gregory and the unsuccessful poetic memorials Yeats wrote before producing ‘An Irish Airman Forsees his Death.’
Tag: W.B. Yeats
Lady Gregory radio documentary
Good RTÉ Documentary about how Lady Gregory became one of the central figures in the literati of early twentieth-century Dublin.
Declan Kiberd at the Theatre of Memory Symposium
Declan Kiberd giving a rather brilliant talk on the state of Ireland, memory and its relationship to culture. Great readings of Yeats, Joyce and the revolutionary generation abound, albeit greenwashed slightly. Also has a dig at the revisionist historians, which I would make more of if it wasn’t for his great idea for a new, radical arts policy.