Celebrations are being held across the country today to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats.
He is being remembered with a party at Lissadell House in Sligo and a series of film screenings at the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar in Dublin.
Residents at his place of birth at Sandymount Green in Dublin are having a garden party to mark the occasion.
Organiser Anthony Jordan says Yeats' love of Maud Gonne is the focus of their attention for the occasion:
Actress Joanna Lumley opened the Lake Isle of Innisfree Garden at The Model in county Sligo this afternoon.
She says she was drawn there by the words of one of Yeats' most famous poems:
Other events taking place to mark 'Yeat's Day' include a poetry train between Dublin and Sligo, readings and much more. You can find out more details here.
Yeats was born on June 13th, 1865, and died in Menton, France in January 1939 aged 73. In 1923, he became the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His many poems include The Lake Isle of Inisfree, The Song of Wandering and Easter, 1916.
