Go to Know: Yeats’ Ireland

"You got to go there, to know there", wrote Zora Neale Hurston. Although this African-American writer does not automatically evoke Ireland's patron-poet, Hurston's words are a compelling command for any serious student of William Butler Yeats.  If you want to truly comprehend the poetry of Yeats, and I mean all of Yeats at his most concretely Irish self, you must visit Ireland.  Without seeing, touching, walking--and even drinking--in his footsteps, your understanding of this Nobel Prize winner's work will be incomplete.
I had a Joycean epiphany at Thoor Ballylee, Yeats' Tower in County Galway...