Harpist Caitriona Yeats performs this week at her childhood haunt of Thoor Ballylee, the tower house of her grandfather WB Yeats, says Alan O’Riordan

Things fall apart, wrote Yeats, but they also come together, as they did in Manhattan on Monday night, when a thousand guests attended a celebration of the poet’s 150th birthday.

One could not stop one’s foot tapping.