A Yard of Yeatses, Yellows and Yuppies

Y is for AnnesleY and MarY’s Abbey and SYnnott,

and the yard that you get up, if your heart’s not in it. (ahem)

– Nessa O’Mahony

William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount, Dublin in 1865,

Co-founder of The Abbey Theatre, and recipient of a Nobel Prize.

– Mary B Shannon

Yippee for the Yeatses, those dreamers and yearners,

Nobel and Olympian accolade earners,

Yell for Yin, yell for Yang, yell for Lolly and Lily,

Whose Dun Emer Press printed Jack B and Willie.

– Catherine Ann Cullen

Y is for Yellow wildflowers that just want to grow

Dandelions and buttercups it’s best not to mow

Nectar and pollen to attract a buzzing workload

And Dublin’s reward, many Yellow Brick Roads.

– Marie Studer

Y is for the Yellow House, it’s there two hundred years,

Served Young and older Irelanders with yummy food and beers.

– Catherine Ann Cullen

The most famous Yes ever uttered

was by Molly. Yes. Short and sweet.

And critics have ever since muttered

about where she yessed

in Clanbrassil Street.

– Karen J McDonnell