Today is the centenary of the death of who passed away on 3 Feb 1922. The painter was born in Tullylish, Co. Down. Father to William, Jack, Lily and Lolly

You can explore many of his sketches and letters in our online catalogue: https://t.co/pkrHa0NcAc

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'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.

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1939: Death in Menton, S France of & WB Yeats. Poet! Lit! Co-founded . Senator of Irish Free State 2 terms. 🪦 since 1948. Epitaph from last lines of "Under Ben Bulben". https://t.co/tmjey1APcq https://t.co/qfG8qwJsqi

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'...ten miles from Dublin, there is a fairies path, whereon a great colony of other-world creatures travel nightly from the hill to the sea and home again.'
-William Butler Yeats

🎨John Anster Fitzgerald

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"Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame."
✍️ William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

🎨 Igor Shulman "New Skirt", 2017

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“Come fairies, take me out of this dull world. For I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
-W.B Yeats, The Land Of Heart's Desire

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This is the John Singer Sargent portrait that W. B. Yeats preferred to the Augustus John picture.

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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

~ W. B. Yeats

The making and eclectic background of W. B. Yeats on Quotomania ▶️
https://t.co/SW18Vlu94j

🎨 Jack B. Yeats, Driftwood in a Cave. 1948

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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.

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*アルバートx夢主(顔、名前あり)
*The rose in the deeps of his heart
*トレス素材を使っています
*14歳の兄様とベリーちゃん、二人の初めての舞踏会ですー
For my dreams of your image that blossoms,
a rose in the deeps of my heart.
<William Butler Yeats>

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'But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful'
(W.B. Yeats, 'The Wild Swans at Coole)

Swans by the canal, glowing in the evening light.

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Borrowing Trouble, a near-future murder mystery set in a mining camp on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, is a cautionary tale of climate change migrants intertwined with the mythic world of W. B. Yeats & the shadow kingdom of the Sidhe. https://t.co/JHojpdGskH

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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).

https://t.co/2w0CxmgbIF https://t.co/asl3sapPdh

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Details of a watercolor by Irish actor, writer, and artist, Micheál Mac Liammóir (1899-1978), illustrating W.B. Yeats’ poem, the Stolen Child. From the Loretta Clarke Murray collection of women in revolutionary Ireland.

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"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

The Stolen Child - W. B Yeats

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For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than he can understand.

—W.B. Yeats, The Stolen Child
🌟Arthur Rackham

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And her hair was a folded flower
And the quiet of love in her feet ...
~ W B Yeats


Artist is Janaina Medeiros

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'Birds in Autumn'~ Anne Yeats, (1964)

This is a two colour planogaphic print (lithograph) on paper, depicting three white birds in flight. Anne Yeats was a daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats and a niece of the painter Jack B. Yeats and botanic artist Elizabeth Yeats.

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One of the Sweetest Dreams, oil on canvas board, original, 5x7”
On sale for October 💜

Massively feeling inspired by JB Yeats at the moment

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