Matthew Fay @matthewfay3
Scholar of the Irish Revival, English teacher and tutor, and ever hopeful Arsenal fan London Joined December 2015-
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William Carlos Williams (b #otd 1883) met #Yeats in Montparnasse in 1924 reading Dowson by🕯️candlelight to @AbbeyTheatre protégés. Williams noted the older poet's "beautiful voice". He also credited Yeats with showing him the possibility of breaking free from traditional iambics!
William Carlos Williams (b #otd 1883) met #Yeats in Montparnasse in 1924 reading Dowson by🕯️candlelight to @AbbeyTheatre protégés. Williams noted the older poet's "beautiful voice". He also credited Yeats with showing him the possibility of breaking free from traditional iambics! https://t.co/vzjA6DofPG
Frank O'Connor (b #otd 1903, author of over 150 short stories!) translated Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's 1773 lament for her husband Art O'Leary into English. Published by @TheYeatsSisters Lily and Lolly at their Cuala Press in Dundrum, with illustrations by brother, Jack B Yeats
Frank O'Connor (b #otd 1903, author of over 150 short stories!) translated Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's 1773 lament for her husband Art O'Leary into English. Published by @TheYeatsSisters Lily and Lolly at their Cuala Press in Dundrum, with illustrations by brother, Jack B Yeats https://t.co/2efPB6Js78
A love story told in 12 D-day letters theguardian.com/world/article/…
Curious about ordinary lives in WW2? This gentle, witty, human account of a marriage in the shadow of D-Day is for you! a.co/d/d4BIpD6
We need to be standing on that brink, grabbing hold of English and pulling it back, saving it from plunging over the edge. This is why I tweet a lot. Not to make money or further my career or reputation – I'm too old for that! But to advocate for the subject & its very future. 4/
Great reading on #WorldPoetryDay2023 by #Bob Geldoff et al marking centenary of of #Yeats Nobel Prize for Literature @YeatsBedfordPk
Great reading on #WorldPoetryDay2023 by #Bob Geldoff et al marking centenary of of #Yeats Nobel Prize for Literature @YeatsBedfordPk
End of a long journey #SASGrad2023 Beveridge Hall at Senate House a fantastic setting for my PhD graduation @IES_London
Oldham Council: Save Oldham Coliseum Theatre - Sign the Petition! chng.it/YvS5vkh8 via @UKChange
Great to be at the star-studded launch of the new virtual WB Yeats trail in Bedford Park this morning! Congratulations to @CLDallat and the @YeatsBedfordPk team for a great project (and well done to @theJeremyVine for an impressive recital of The Second Coming without notes!)
Jeremy Vine recites Yeats' The Second Coming as he launches Discover Bedford Park with WB Yeats smartphone tour of the first garden suburb where the poet lived @YeatsBedfordPk @Conradshawcross @TorinDouglas @CLDallat @AnneMarie_Fyfe @theJeremyVine
My article on #Yeats's early drama @AbbeyTheatre, drawing on Irish actor Frank Fay's archive of annotated play texts is here: yeatsjournal.or.kr/index.php?mid=… Thanks to the Yeats Journal of Korea!
Sadness at death of former Sligo Yeats Society CEO Stella Mew @Yeatssocietyirl independent.ie/regionals/slig…
⭐⭐⭐⭐ from @irishexaminer for #AWhistleInTheDark 👏 Have a read of the full article ⬇ irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts…
We’re celebrating @PoetryDayUK & Larkin💯 w/ @wmarybeard, actors Tara Fitzgerald et al 7pm Wed Oct 5th @britishlibrary Online Livestream 🎟’s: thepoetryhour.com/events/philip-… @ShevaunWilder @eventsBL @RSLiterature @PoetrySociety #PhilipLarkin #TaraFitzgerald #AfterLove #GameofThrones
She wasn’t ‘just’ a brilliant writer, she had an unusual understanding of people as well as great empathy, I was terrified when I heard I was going to interview her for the RSL, she couldn’t have been more generous with her thoughts and her own history.
She wasn’t ‘just’ a brilliant writer, she had an unusual understanding of people as well as great empathy, I was terrified when I heard I was going to interview her for the RSL, she couldn’t have been more generous with her thoughts and her own history.
Great turnout for unveiling @YeatsBedfordPk artwork by @Conradshawcross yesterday. Congratulations to all involved especially @CLDallat
Poetic justice: WB Yeats’s time in London to be celebrated at last theguardian.com/books/2022/sep…
Moving furniture, I found @baltimoresun chalked on the desk. How did it get from US to London? Belonged to my grandad @guardian journalist Gerard Fay one for@TheRepairShop?
I've pledged my support for this great project – have you? Check it out crowdfunder.co.uk/p/minibusfunder crowdfunder.co.uk/p/minibusfunde… #FreeAfghanistan
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Irish Literary Societ... @IrishLitSoc
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IASIL @IASIL3
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IASIL @Irish_Lit
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