It's interesting that the great poet of Ireland, a country long associated with strife and troubles, should have written a poem containing one of the best-known uses in poetry of the word "peace." ...

A FIRE broke out on a ferry carrying almost 200 people across the Channel. Rescuers scrambled three lifeboats out to the ship in the middle of the 21-mile stretch after the ship set sail from Dover, ...

An architectural competition is set to temporarily transform the appearance of the Lake Isle of Innisfree on Lough Gill for Yeats Day this June. Submissions are being invited for a conceptual ...

An investigation has been launched into the cause of a fire which broke out on a ferry in the English Channel. It started in the engine room of the Isle of Innisfree at 17:30 GMT on Friday and was ...

Three lifeboats were despatched from Kent to a ferry in the English Channel after a fire broke out on board. The Isle of Innisfree was around halfway across the Channel when the blaze broke out in the ...

In his 1892 poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats fantasizes about a life lived in solitude on an island in Lough Gill in Ireland, where the poet spent his summers as a child. Earlier this year, as a ...

Glencar Waterfall, Co. Leitrim Stand up paddling with SUPforall.ie, Sligo Hazelwood, Co. Sligo: The setting for Yeats's 'The Song of Wandering Aengus' Pól Ó Conghaile at Dooney Rock Forest Park, Co.

Passengers have been left stranded for hours throughout the night after a fire broke out on board an Irish ferry on Friday evening. The ferry is currently off the coast of northern France as emergency ...