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'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.

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2021-06-10

The theme for is horses, and we've decided to go to the races! 🏇🏇🏇
Arrival at Epsom Downs for Derby Week, Alfred Munnings
Cheltenham Races, British School
Dieppe Races, Walter Sickert
Back from the Races, Jack Butler Yeats

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2021-06-03

We've added a new event to our June programme.

Join us and our partner on Thursday 3 June at 11am for 'Yeats and Fairytales'.

More info & book here: https://t.co/LGQCtdTX3Q

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2021-05-31

A Greek myth tells of Leda & the Swan in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces/rapes Leda.

…the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill.
WB Yeats

🎨Gustave Moreau

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2021-05-25

Favourite retreat at end of our many "Land of Heart's Desire" walks, , with its Arts-&-Crafts Wm De Morgan tiles, and inn-sign originally painted by neighbour T. Matthews Rooke whose wife Leonora taught the Yeats siblings country dancing! https://t.co/wK7V1iGSxC

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2021-05-09

Mega-thnx2 for chance to write re k project's implications for Londoners, London-Irish-ers like and for our entwined British-Irish cultural strands: + to mention the Artwork's crowdfund page - just 10 days to deadline! https://t.co/NjZAFMClf7 https://t.co/E3mDCWVhPM

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2021-05-03

residents: Irish historian Goddard Orpen (painting by Sean O'Suilleabhain) + his Kansas-born novelist wife Adela lived round the corner from the Yeatses' Woodstock Rd home and next door to historian Frederick York Powell who introduced to Mallarmé's poetry

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2021-04-20

A Bridge in the City (1930) / Jack B. Yeats.

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2021-04-18

first staged play "Land of Heart's Desire" ends its run 1894: companion piece by Irish poet + neighbour, John Todhunter (No.3 The Orchard); both produced by Todhunter's neighbour Florence Farr + funded by Annie Horniman who later helped fund

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2021-04-14

'Birds in Autumn (57/75)' ~ Anne Yeats (1964).

This is a two colour planogaphic print on paper, depicting three white birds in flight. she had a touching naive expressionist style and was interested in representing domestic humanity.

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2021-04-14

The Spring issue
Cuala embroideries:
The discovery of a set of embroideries from 1932 highlights a period during which the new Irish State was presenting a religious and ancient identity to the outside world. Commissioned by WB Yeats & executed by his sister Lily

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2021-04-07

“ io essendo povero ho soltanto i miei sogni e i miei sogni ho steso sotto i tuoi piedi. Cammina leggera perché cammini sopra i miei sogni.”

William Butler Yeats,Irlanda,Nobel Letteratura 1923

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Chagall - La barque

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2021-04-06

Happy 20 Yeats w.i.t.c.h,my fav italiano comic ever💓💓💓💓💓

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2021-04-04

1957: Death in Dublin of Jack Butler Yeats.👨‍🎨 & 1924 Olympic silver medallist🥈; "The Liffey Swim"! Siblings: WB, Lily, Lolly! Father: artist John Butler! Painted landscapes/figures, mainly from west, esp boyhood home of https://t.co/1r50yBQebO https://t.co/A9QDRq35Ne

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2021-03-28

► « Malgré les années, la jeunesse s'attardait encore en lui,... »
~ William Butler Yeats ~
• Lettres nouvelles
- CD, Hector Zazou, Parade sauvage pour Arthur Rimbaud.

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2021-03-28

May Morris (seated) b. 1862. Her embroiderers included Florence Farr (with psaltery) who funded first staged play + Lily Yeats, both part of ambience that inspired his dream of heavens' embroidered cloths - listen at https://t.co/VqqvXy6HrW

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2021-03-25

in 1888 the family moved to 3 Blenheim Rd where they lived until 1902, where Willie wrote 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' that first summer, co-founded the (still going strong) + met his great unrequited love, Maud Gonne! https://t.co/NjZAFMClf7

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2021-03-24

“Do they die? Blake saw a fairy’s funeral; but in Ireland we say they are immortal."

—W.B. Yeats

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2021-03-17