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

Two countrymen explore Ireland's reverence for their national poet, W. B. Yeats. Then a Dublin journalist shares what it was like to grow up amid the turbulent societal changes in his city during the 1960s and '70s. And a guide from Belfast tells us why an Emerald Isle itinerary should include a visit to Northern Ireland.

• 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.