“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light…”
🎬 Irish singer, actress, song-maker and folklorist Lisa Lambe reading Yeats’ ‘He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ (1899).
The ‘Yeats Nobel Centenary’ series is a collaboration between the National Library of Ireland and Seanad Éireann. Together marking 100 years since poet, writer and Senator WB Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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The NLI Yeats exhibition is open every day free of charge.