1888
-Yeats edited and published a collection of Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888), gathering the work of earlier Irish authors;

-Yeats lectured on the Sligo fairies in at the Irish Lit. Society in London;

1889
-Yeats published his longer poem, "The Wanderings of Oisin", commenced in 1886, and concerning the travels of the son of Finn MacCool in Tír na nÓg (Jan.);

-Yeats contributes an essay on 'Irish Fairies, Ghosts, Witches, &c.’, to Lucifer (15 Jan.);

1892
-Yeats writes a letter to the Arthur Griffith’s paper United Ireland (14 May 1892), rebuking the Irish public for not buying books, and afterwards supplied a list of the best Irish books in an extended correspondence;

1892
-Yeats and others establish the National Literary Society at a meeting in Dublin in 25 Nov. 1892;

1893
-Douglas Hyde, a key-player in the revival, launched the Gaelic League aimed at reviving the Irish language;

-Yeats edits The Celtic Twilight (1893), a collection of tales and sketches about of leprechauns, tramps and ghostly visitations;

-Yeats visits the North of Ireland and gives a lecture to the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club on 'the consoling faith of Irish Fairy Lore’ (21 Nov.);

1896
-Yeats plans an Order of Celtic Mysteries with Maud Gonne, to be centred on a 'Castle of Heroes’ on Lough Key, Co. Roscommon;

-Yeats begins collecting Irish folklore with Lady Gregory on the Aran Islands, in the Burren (Co. Clare), in Sligo and in Doneraile (Co. Cork), as well as at Coole Park (Co. Galway);

1897
-Yeats plans the Irish Literary Theatre with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn at Duras House and Coole Park, Oct. 1897;

-Yeats publishes The Tables of the Law ( The Savoy, Nov. 1897)

-Yeats inaugurates the Irish Literary Theatre at a meeting of the National Literary Society, January 1899;

Yeats collaborates with George Moore on Diarmuid and Grania, performed on 21 Oct. 1901 (pub. 1951), set to music by Elgar;