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A high-angle view of a large audience applauding performers on a small stage.  A grand piano, stage flats, and framed photographs line the walls. A poster for "The Playboy of the Western World" is visible on the stage backdrop.

Yeats and the arts take center stage at Notre Dame Kylemore’s ‘Threshold’

W.B. Yeats, playwright, poet, founder of the Abbey Theatre, and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, among other accolades, was front and center in conversation, art, and spirit at Notre Dame Kylemore’s Threshold Festival. Mirroring Yeats’ own breadth of work across creative writing, literary…