'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' read by WB Yeats

Easter 1916 | W.B. Yeats

Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks : La Rejouissance-

I hope to see you on the 24th

" Answer", by George W Russel. Thank you Michael

  Answer


THE WARMTH of life is quenched with bitter frost;   
Upon the lonely road a child limps by   
Skirting the frozen pools: our way is lost:   
    Our hearts sink utterly.   

But from the snow-patched moorland chill and drear,            5
Lifting our eyes beyond the spirëd height,   
With white-fire lips apart the dawn breathes clear   
    Its soundless hymn of light.   

Out of the vast the voice of one replies   
Whose words are clouds and stars and night and day,            10
When for the light the anguished spirit cries   
    Deep in its house of clay.

8 February 1926. ABBEY THEATRE

8 February 1926  

Today is the 90th anniversary of the world premiere of The Plough and the Stars. 

It was first performed in 1926, less than ten years after the Easter Rising. On the night of the fourth performance, the Abbey Company was met by an unruly audience who protested against what they believed was a grotesque distortion of historical events slandering those who had died for Ireland. 

Now regarded as a masterpiece, this provocative play is an essential part of our understanding of 1916.

8 February 2016

A new group of artists has just entered rehearsals as we prepare to present Sean O’Casey’s absorbing play as part of our Waking the Nation season. 

The Plough and the Stars is selling fast, but to mark this special moment in Abbey Theatre history we are releasing 800 front row seats priced at just €13.  

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