Matthew Fay

Scholar of the Irish Revival, English teacher and tutor, and ever hopeful Arsenal fan

[🌻WB Yeats Bedford Park🌻Project @YeatsBedfordPk]

Irish actor, sometime Chiswick resid. + great interpreter of #Yeats, Cyril Cusack, d #otd 1993; daughter Sinéad read for us at the unveiling of @ConradShawcross RA's dazzling Yeatsian #BedfordPk gyre 3yrs ago, with Jeremy Irons,Ruth Negga, Ciarán Hinds + @HeritageIrish musicians!

[🌻WB Yeats Bedford Park🌻Project @YeatsBedfordPk]

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!

[🌻WB Yeats Bedford Park🌻Project @YeatsBedfordPk]

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

[Rosanna Greenstreet @celebQandA]

A love story told in 12 D-day letters https://t.co/c9K8F8cH1J

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

Curious about ordinary lives in WW2? This gentle, witty, human account of a marriage in the shadow of D-Day is for you! https://t.co/COgA970FOr

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

@ShevaunWilder @dubcilib @NLIreland @theUL @britishlibrary @TheLondonLib @WorldBookDayUK @WorldBookDayIE @AbbeyTheatre And my great-Grandpa is pictured as Cuchulain in On Baile's Strand in repro of drawing by Yeats's father (I think).

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

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/

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

Great reading on #WorldPoetryDay2023 by #Bob Geldoff et al marking centenary of of #Yeats Nobel Prize for Literature @YeatsBedfordPk

[Torin Douglas @TorinDouglas]

Great @thepoetryhour event @britishlibrary with readings by #BobGeldof #MariellaFrostrup #GavinDrea @ShevaunWilder marking the centenary of WB Yeats’ Nobel Prize for Literature. Thanks to all involved.

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

@LdnMetArchives Shanks's pony is to travel on foot.

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

@chiara_beta Depending on your relationship with the student, I'd be tempted to have a general conversation about the value of personal response, that you'd rather hear their voice than anyone else's. But I'd make sure none of their peers knew about it. Good luck!

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

@gavclarke @IES_London You too. Congrats on your MRes!

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

End of a long journey #SASGrad2023 Beveridge Hall at Senate House a fantastic setting for my PhD graduation @IES_London

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

Oldham Council: Save Oldham Coliseum Theatre - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/kbUu3qeTTs via @UKChange

[Jack Emsley @Jack_Emsley1]

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!)

[Peter Murray OBE @PGSMurray]

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

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

My article on #Yeats's early drama @AbbeyTheatre, drawing on Irish actor Frank Fay's archive of annotated play texts is here: https://t.co/kGgP6x1g8F Thanks to the Yeats Journal of Korea!

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

@niamhcoffey207 Lauren Arrington's dual biog of both Constance and Casimir is well worth a look.

[Matthew Fay @matthewfay3]

@ThePhDPlace Discombobulating

[The Sligo Champion @SligoChampion]

Sadness at death of former Sligo Yeats Society CEO Stella Mew
@Yeatssocietyirl
https://t.co/rdfteasRWE

[Abbey Theatre - The National Theatre of Ireland @AbbeyTheatre]

⭐⭐⭐⭐ from @irishexaminer for #AWhistleInTheDark 👏 Have a read of the full article ⬇
https://t.co/wyVCcIsRJ4