Rare letters from teenage WB Yeats to be auctioned in London
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Film star Grace Kelly's roots prompted her to collect Irish literature, including rare editions of Joyce, Beckett and Shaw
Francis Ledwidge: an Irish nationalist in a British army uniform
Poet was one of those civilised citizens of vision who would have contributed to the birth and growth of the new Ireland had they not died before their time
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Gerry Hanberry’s book, ‘On Raglan Road’, tells the story of the women who inspired great Irish love songs by Mick Hanly, Christy Moore, Percy French, Mundy and Phil Lynnott
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Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald explores the cultural legacy of the Easter Rising in the work of the rebels themselves and fellow poets Yeats, AE, James Stephens and Francis Ledwidge
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WB Yeats and Ezra Pound were among guests gathered for memorable meal in West Sussex
Last Letter
Katharine Tynan to Francis Ledwidge after his death, July 31st, 1917, in the battle of Passchendaele
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