'Neath Ben Bulben's buttocks lies Bill Yeats, a poet twice the soize of Wm. Wordsworth, as they say down Ballbillwuchlin way: Let saxon roiders brreak their bones, huntin' the fox thru' dese grave-stones'.
Ezra Pound.
Red Hanrahan / Jack B. Yeats.
Seasonal greeting cards with delicate hand colouring printed in the early years of the Churchtown based Cuala Press, established in 1908.
The drawings, depicting a Christmas mantelpiece and a moment of levitation over an Irish landscape are by Mary Cottenham, 'Cottie' Yeats.
Murphy, O'Brien, Lane, Gibson, Healy, Devlin and Redmond depicted by cartoonist Frank Reynolds, 'S H. Y.'
A Welcome (1945) /Jack B. Yeats.
Formerly owned by bookseller publisher Maurice Fridberg.
Excellent note here on his short-lived Hour-Glass Library featuring Frank O'Connor's banned translation of Merriman's Midnight Court (1945).
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Number 53.
French Art Poster Exhibition Dublin,
April 1905 at 6, St. Stephen's Green.
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A Tenement Nocturne.
W.H. Conn (1895-1973)
Three illustrations from
'Dublin Opinion'.
'High on Ben Howth rhododendrons a nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants. Screened under ferns she laughed warmfolded.'
'The pirate has been lifted up to a strange kind of poetry in some of Jack Yeats' pictures. I remember one called "Walking the Plank". The solemn theatrical face, lifted up to the blue sky in a last farewell to the wild world and its lawless freedom, haunted me for days.'
~ AE.
BLOOM: Lapses are condoned. Even the great Napoleon when measurements were taken next the skin after his death
[Ulysses]
Phil Blake on the same Cafe Concert bill as Joyce in Mary Sheehy's dramatic sketch 'Cupid's Confidante', Dublin,
1901.
He performs Maffei's 'Save Me Not'.
'In the big world the old people do be leaving things after them for their sons and children, but in this place it is the young men do be leaving things behind for them that do be old.'
~ Riders To The Sea.
First performed at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, February 25th, 1904.