This volume gathers William Butler Yeats's dramatic and prose writings into a vivid portrait of Irish modernism, where symbolism, national identity, and artistic freedom are inseparable. Alongside essays on the Irish dramatic movement, it includes plays such as The Hour-Glass, Cathleen ni Houlihan, and The Golden Helmet, each blending everyday speech with mystical vision and philosophical tension. In The Hour-Glass, a skeptical Wise Man who trusts only reason is confronted by a Fool, an Angel, and the ticking of his own mortality, until faith, revelation, and death converge in a haunting moral drama. Cathleen ni Houlihan transforms a rural wedding into a vision of sacrifice and country, as the mysterious Poor Old Woman draws a family from domestic hope toward national destiny. The prose pieces defend the theater's right to portray truth in all its beauty and ugliness, and respond to the uproar over The Playboy of the Western World by condemning censorship, mob rule, and coercive nationalism in favor of sincerity, courage, and free art. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.