The digital marketing folks at the Killarney Hotels Group in Ireland have put together this visual. It's an interactive StoryMap called ‘A Literary Landscape of Ireland’ and features Ireland’s most prolific writers and poets and the places that featured prominently in their lives. I didn't know that JRR Tolkien spent time in Ireland while writing Lord of the Rings and that the origin of the character Gollum might very well have come from the name of a cave in Burren, Co. Claire. Pretty cool.
A Literary Atlas of Ireland
Ireland a literary atlas [Infographic] by the team at BuyBooks
Easter with Yeats
Easter, 1916. by W.B. Yeats. 4to, original bright green printed wrappers. Easter, 1916, the first publication of one of Yeats’ greatest poems, and the rarest of all of the poet’s publications.The Easter Rising and the Proclamation of the Irish Republic began on Monday, April 24, and lasted until April 30, 1916.Of the uprising Yeats wrote: The Dublin tragedy has been a great sorrow and anxiety. . . . I have little doubt there have been many miscarriages of justice. . . I had no idea that any public event could so deeply move me – and I am very despondent about the...