
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 4th 2011<br /><br />William Butler Yeats was a notable Irish poet and playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.<br />The Fiddler of Dooney first appeared in Yeats' 1899 book of poetry 'The Wind Among the Reeds`. (Summary by Lucy Perry)