Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time (Mulhall Daniel)(Paperback)

From the Celtic Twilight, through the revolutionary period to his public poet status in the 1930s, W.B. Yeats lived through extraordinary times and made a lasting contribution to Ireland through his writing. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first such honour to be awarded to an Irish person.
Daniel Mulhall, a former diplomat, is acutely aware of the role of Yeats and other Irish writers in the state's soft power.
Following on from the success of his introduction to Ulysses in 2022, Mulhall returns with an accessible readers' guide to W.B. Yeats and his place in the Ireland of his time. Focusing on Yeats's Irishness and his contribution to his country as it transitioned towards independence, each chapter will hone in on a key period in early twentieth century Irish
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