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New Island set to publish Yeats Nobel Prize commemorative biography by Daniel Mulhall this October
New Island are delighted to announce they will publish Pilgrim Soul - W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of his Time by former ambassador of Ireland to the United States Daniel Mulhall this October. The book marks the centenary of Yeats’s Nobel Prize, a timely guide to the work of Ireland’s national poet and the changing Ireland he lived through.
‘A cursory glance at his career gives us some sense of his stardom’
HE WAS Ireland’s first literary celebrity; he moved in exciting political and artistic circles; he was a best selling writer; a political satirist; a biographer, and above all a celebrated lyricist, admired by Hector Berlioz.
‘The great and the good of Irish writing'
THE FIRST year of the new decade sees a new director at the helm of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Sahsa de Buyl. “If you were to look at a theme for this years’s event,” she says, “it would be the great and the good of Irish writing.”
