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...Matthew Roberts, Intu chief executive, says the company is suffering a “crisis of valuation”. That is no less a crisis. Sales may only crystallise falling asset values....
...matthew.vincent@ft.com...
...Illustration by Matthew Cook...
...In Vivid Faces, his account of the revolutionary generation, Professor Roy Foster depicts the Rising — and the artistic golden age (Joyce, Synge, Yeats, O’Casey etc) that accompanied it — as a conscious...
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries in London...
...The idea of the poet as seer or prophet, exemplified so magnificently by the later Yeats (“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”) now seems a distant memory....
...Yeats, Harbison’s 1976 chamber opera – receiving a belated European premiere – made an intriguing centrepiece for Lontano’s Festival of American Music....
...matthew.engel@ft.com Matthew Engel ’s Dispatch appears fortnightly....
...It is Ireland’s national theatre, created by William Butler Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory and John Millington Synge....
...And an Iraqi refugee and someone’s mother in England reciting Yeats together over the telephone. Perhaps it’s significant that the poem Besma was remembering should be about women’s hair....
...Yeats was rumoured to have had injections of monkey glands, and underwent a vasectomy in the hope that it would keep him sexually active....
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