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." ...

William Butler Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is about the allure of an imagined refuge. The poem’s distressed urban speaker fantasizes about fleeing the city and retreating to an idyllic Irish ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

IRISH Continental Group, which operates Irish Ferries, has agreed to charter the freight ferry Isle of Innisfree to P&O European Ferries for the next five years. ICG has also negotiated a five year ...

Yong ho Shin and John Randle of shindesignworks have been announced as the winners of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," a design competition held earlier this year as part of the Yeats2015 festival. Based ...