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...task of penning Yeats’ biography was juggled between Yeats’ family and select literary critics before finally landing in the lap of Roy F. Foster, a historian of modern Ireland at the University of Oxford. On Wednesday, Foster spoke about his final volume in Askwith Lecture Hall as part of the Harvard Bookstore’s Author Series...
...Yeats summer school in Siglo, Ireland, is what Vendler—a past director of the program—describes as a two-week long “whirlwind of activity,” featuring twenty lectures in two weeks, seminars each afternoon, trips around the Yeats’ countryside, and production of Yeats’ plays. Vendler is fond of the program, which attracts a wide variety of participants, from 17-year-old students to retired professors from all over the world...
...subject is important—about 10 times an issue, most likely—the smart money is that Sarah was working behind the scenes. A tireless reporter, smooth writer, uncompromising editor and natural leader, Sarah will sail back next spring from her semester sipping Guinness in Galway, Ireland, to keep FM’s content kicking...
...Just hope your virus isn't the vicious "Fujian flu," which originated in China at the start of the year and caused major outbreaks between June and August in New Zealand and Australia, where at one point around 30% of school-age children were affected. It arrived in Ireland in early September and soon spread to Britain, where it has killed six children. Simultaneously it appeared in Spain, Portugal and Norway, and is now spreading across the rest of Europe. In France, a different strain, the "H3N2" variant, combined with gastroenteritis, has laid low up to 2 million people. Eleven...
...Bush is religiously devout, and that too calls up troubling spirits from Europe's vasty deep. Not all Europeans are godless heathens nor all Americans washed in the blood of the Lamb. But in European memory, religious fervor has often been a source of bitter communal strife--think of Ireland and the Balkans. Bush is prepared to use force to advance his political goals. But after the carnage of what might be called the long European war from 1914 to 1989, some Europeans--particularly older ones, in my experience--just cannot accept the idea that...