Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), written in 1918 and first published in the Macmillan edition of The Wild Swans at Coole in 1919. [1] The poem is a soliloquy given by an aviator in the First World War in which the narrator describes the circumstances surrounding his imminent death.
"An Irish Airman Foresees his Death" "Men improve with the Years" "The Collar-Bone of a Hare" "Under the Round Tower" "Solomon to Sheba" "The Living Beauty" "A Song" "To a Young Beauty" "To a Young Girl" "The Scholars" "Tom O'Roughley" "The Sad Shepherd" "Lines written in Dejection" "The Dawn" "On Woman" "The Fisherman" "The Hawk" "Memory" "Her ...
Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916.
William Robert Gregory MC (20 May 1881 – 23 January 1918) [1] was an Irish flying ace who served as a fighter pilot with the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. He was also an accomplished artist and cricket player. His death was memorialised in a series of poems by W. B. Yeats.
1919 – The Wild Swans at Coole, significant revision of the 1917 edition: has the poems from the 1917 edition and others, including "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" and "The Phases of the Moon"; contains: "The Wild Swans at Coole", "Ego Dominus Tuus", "The Scholars" and "On being asked for a War Poem" [2]
He inspired the poem, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, by family friend W. B. Yeats. [34] 24 February – The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Paulding sighted the periscope of the Royal Navy submarine HMS L2 in the Atlantic Ocean south of Ireland, opened gunfire on it, and dropped two depth charges, forcing L2 to surface.
An Appointment with Mr. Yeats is the tenth studio album by the Waterboys, released on 19 September 2011 through W14/Proper Records.The album contains 14 tracks, all of which are based upon the poetry of W. B. Yeats, a long term influence on lead-songwriter Mike Scott.
Maud Gonne MacBride (Irish: Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríghde; 21 December 1866 – 27 April 1953) was an Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette and actress. . She was of Anglo-Irish descent and was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of people evicted in the Land W