Yeats Event, Embassy of Ireland Moscow

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On the 14th of June Embassy Moscow marked the occasion of W.B. Yeats' birthday with a lecture on Yeats and Easter 1916 delivered by Professor Margaret Mills Harper, University of Limerick and President of the International Yeats Society.  Invited guests included cultural partners, members of the Irish community and the diplomatic community.  As this is the centenary year, there was a lot of interest in Yeats' involvement in the Rising.  Professor Harper gave a fascinating explanation of the poem, Easter 1916.