Program 785: Irish Legacy of W. B. Yeats; 1960s Ireland; Touring Northern Ireland

It's an all-Ireland hour on the next Travel with Rick Steves:

We'll hear how the Irish revere the work of their national poet, W. B. Yeats.

Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole reveals what it was like to grow up in Dublin, as society changed in the 1960s and '70s.

And a guide from Belfast tells us why vacationing in Northern Ireland comes highly recommended for offering you a complete Emerald Isle itinerary.

• Irish tour guides Barry Moloney and Stephen McPhilemy
• Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole, author of "We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland" (Liveright)
• Lynn Corken, tour guide from Belfast, Northern Ireland

• The Rick Steves online guide to Ireland.
• Stephen recommends the ongoing special exhibit on William Butler Yeats' influence on modern Irish cultural identity at the National Library in Dublin. Barry suggests visiting the Yeats poetry displayed at Coole Park in County Galway.
• Barry Moloney hosts walking tours of historic Kinsale, Ireland. He's collected many of the tales he tells on the tours in his books "Kinsale" and "Kinsale Stories" and includes short clips on YouTube.
• Stephen McPhilemy operates the Milltown House Guesthouse on the Dingle Harbour.
• Fintan O'Toole has been called "Ireland's leading public intellectual" by his colleagues at the Irish Times. He teaches at Princeton University in New Jersey as a visiting lecturer in Irish Letters.
• Fintan is the author of "We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland."
• The Rick Steves online guide to Northern Ireland.
• Blue Badge tour guide Lynn Corken can be contacted from her Facebook page.

• "What is the best activity to do in Ireland/Northern Ireland in order to see and understand W. B. Yeats and his writings? Are there places to go where Yeats wrote a particular piece?" (Mary Margaret in Muncie, Indiana)
• "I adore Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree.' So beautiful, peaceful, and alluring. I am sure the simple life he speaks of resonates with many. Would Stephen or Barry do us the pleasure of quoting it?" (Sally in Lavelle, Pennsylvania)

• SON_SCD_03344_01501_Claddagh_March_APM
• Bob Culbertson, "O'Carolan's Welcome," Celtic Waters / (self-released: www.stickmusic.com)
• Altan, "An Grianán (Horse with a Heart)," Celtic Tides (collection) / Putumayo
• Orchestral introduction conducted by Lawrence Collingwood on John McCormack's "The Kerry Dance," Songs of My Heart / EMI Classics
• The Chieftains, "'The Departure' (from the film 'Tristan and Isolde')," Film Cuts / RCA Victor
• London Symphony Orchestra, "'Ceileabradh Dhuit a Bhuidhbh Dhrirg,' (from 'The Children of Lir,' composed by Patrick Cassidy)," Patrick Cassidy: The Children of Lir / Celtic Heartbeat
• Excerpt from Michael MacLiammoir's reading of "Under Ben Bulben" (W. B. Yeats), The Poems of William Butler Yeats / IMI Ltd.
• * Dublin Screen Orchestra (harpist unnamed), "Journey to Inisfree," The Quiet Man (film score) / Silva America
• SOHO_SOHOA_0199_02801_Pond_On_The_Green_APM
• CHY_CHY_0044_00701_A_Night_In_Dublin_a_APM
• KPM _KPM_0229_08801_Irish_Spirits_APM
• Sharon Shannon, "The Mighty Sparrow," Celtic Collection (compilation) / Putumayo
• Irish children's chorus open to The Chieftains, The Low Anthem, "School Days Over," Voice of Ages / Hear Music
• London Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Cassidy, "Marcradh Shiodha (Fairy Calvacade) (Cassidy)," Patrick Cassidy: The Children of Lir / Celtic Heartbeat
• * The Spirit of Eden, "Legend of Cuan," Celtic Heartbeat Collection 2 / Celtic Heartbeat
• Eileen Ivers, "The Rights of Man," Putumayo Presents Women of the World: Celtic II (collection) / Putumayo
• Van Morrison, "Connswater," Inarticulate Speech of the Heart / Warner Bros.
• Bob Culbertson, "Star of the County Down," Celtic Waters / (self-released: www.stickmusic.com)
• Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel, cond., featuring Silver Arm, "'Irish Party in the Third Class' from 'Titanic,'" The Emerald Isles (collection) / Telarc
• New Ireland Orchestra, "Mountains of Mourne," Irish Classics / One Media Publishing
• John McCormack, "The Star of the County Down," Songs of my Heart / EMI Classics
• BM_BMLP_0160_00301_Trade_Wind_Hornpipe_APM

* Indicates filler music used during internal breaks on the broadcast

• At 10:25, Stephen recommends the free expedition on Yeats that has been "running for some years" at the National Library of Ireland.
• Rick, at 48:35, tells Lynn that the United States has a lot of deep political divisions currently, and that some Americans are curious about having a new civil war. Lynn replies with a reminder that intergenerational trauma lingers in a society for decades, as it has in Northern Ireland. She tells caller Jay at 51:00 that there is an exhibit on the Troubles at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. At 53:40, she adds that there have been updates to the Titanic exhibit in the past couple of years.
• At 54:47, Lynn recommends visiting the seaside towns of County Down, such as Newcastle, as a charming alternative to more crowded sites in Northern Ireland. She also recommends the small town of Downings in the Republic, in County Donegal.