In Search of Ireland, as Yeats Knew It
Ron Franscell,, The Christian Science Monitor
Ireland reveres its storytellers. William Butler Yeats once graced the nation's 20 note, as James Joyce now appears on the 10. Important sites in writers' lives are preserved, and a handful of poets and writers are national icons more easily recognized than any politician or sports star.
Why? Perhaps because its writers best capture Ireland's mythic view of itself, or perhaps because poets have always occupied an esteemed spot in Irish culture.
Either way, Ireland enjoys one of the world's most illustrious literary reputation, with four Nobel Prize-winners - Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney - and almost as many poets, playwrights, …
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Article title: In Search of Ireland, as Yeats Knew It.
Contributors: Ron Franscell, - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: May 31, 2000.
Page number: 19.
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