Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats, June 13th

This table display, for a Yeats event at the Mulvihill-Harris home in Sarasota, June 13th, 2012, presents 7 items from my library. From left to right: An image of The Liffey Swim (1923) by Jack Butler Yeats, from writer Margaret Mulvihill & her husband, film-maker Mick Gold, London, Jan., 2012. Declan Foley's The Only Art, his edition of selected letters by Jack B. Yeats, with 11 essays (Dublin: Lilliput, 2009). A cloth edition of Yeats's poems (NY: Macmillan, 15th printing, 1968). Irish Fairy Tales, collected, with notes, by Wm Butler Yeats; illustrations, Jack Yeats (London: Unwin, 1892). The Great Yeats! Remarkable Father of a Remarkable Family, being the text of Sam McCready's play on painter John B. Yeats, father of the poet, performed by McCready as John B. Yeats (Belfast: Lagan Press, 2010; with 7 full-page color portraits by John B. Yeats, of John O'Leary, WB Yeats, Jack B. Yeats, Susan Yeats, Lily Yeats, Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh, Self-portrait), Introduction by John Kelly. Coole Lady: The Extraordinary Story of Lady Gregory, being the text of Sam McCready's play on Lady Gregory, performed by Joan McCready as Lady Gregory (Belfast, Lagan Press, 2005), Preface by James Pethica. Image in foreground: A pairing of important women of Yeats's circle: Maud Gonne (right); Constance Markievicz (left), courtesy Helaine Victoria Press, Bloomington, IN (December, 1990).

 

For Mulvihill's essay (with images & music) on Jack B. Yeats, and on Lady Gregory, see:

yeatssociety.org/?page_id=138 (music, Doug Saum)

yeatssociety.org/?page_id=416 (music, Turlough O'Carolan)

 

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