Yeats 150 anos - years

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This June it is commemorated in Ireland the 150 years of the birth from the great Irish writer William Butler Yeats, more known as W. B. Yeats. Click on this site and have a look at the events taking place during the whole year of 2015 in the writer's honor. Nasceu em Dublin mas considerava Sligo o seu verdadeiro lar, tanto é que morreu na França mas pediu para ser enterrado na sua amada Sligo.
On his 73 years of age he had a very rich life.He was born in Dublin, but he considered Sligo as his real home, prove of this is that he died in France, but had requested to be buried in his beloved Sligo.
As a writer he had several very different phases, being the first one very baroque and romantic. Later he wrote in a more modern and austere way. He always produced a lot, he was admired and recognized by his work. He won the Literature Nobel Prize in 1923, "by his always inspired poem, which through a high artistic level way gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation". His works received dozens of other prizes.
VELHICE / OLDNESS

Durante este período ajudou a fundar o Abbey Theatre em Dublin.
Yeats and other intellectuals were the responsible for the Irish Literary Renascence - Movement targeting to value the irish literature, culture and folklore. The house for this movement was Coole Park in Galway, which we have already shown on Welcome to Ireland. Click here. During this period he helped to found Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
Yeats' Sculpture and Tomb in Sligo 
Neste período morou na Thoor Ballylee, em Galway, que o Welcome to Ireland também já te mostrou.. Clique aqui para conhecê-la.
O escritor ainda teve tempo de se dedicar à Política! Foi um senador dedicado mas com algumas posições políticas polêmicas.
Quer conhecer um pouco da poesia de W. B. Yeats?
Ouça a poesia When Your Are Old na voz do também irlandês Colin Farrell.
Yeats developed a very pronounced mystical and religious side. He organized with some friends Dublin's Hermetic Order. And with his wife developed the "automatic writing", which is the "production process of written material, targeting to avoid the author's conscious thoughts, through the subconcious flow".Over this period he lived at Thoor Ballylee, in Galway, which Welcome to Ireland has already shown you. Click here to learn about it.
The writer still had time to get involved with politics! He was a dedicated Senator, but with some very polemic political positions.
Do you want to know a little about W. B. Yeats poetry?
Listen to the poem When Your Are Old on the voice of the also Irish Colin Farrell.



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