'Dust Settles", for an upcoming group exhibition inspired by the WB Yeats poem 1919 with .gallery July 18th 2019

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YEATS endorses the as an alternative to the sorrows of human life (The Stolen Child 1886)

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

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🎨Jack Butler Yeats (1871 – 1957)

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Memory Harbour Elsinore Lodge, Oyster Island, Rosses Point, Black Jack the smuggler, the Metal Man ...

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On days when there is dark news, these words often come to mind:

"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."
~WB Yeats

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My youngest who just turned 6 can read my book now
from the book “I know it’s bedtime by looking at the clock.” and Arya goes “I know it’s bedtime by saying “Hey Google!” 😂 welcome to the future.

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I BRING you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams

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This find a range of events at your NLI. From a interactive talk for children, to a documentary about the wife of WB Yeats, and events to mark the Chinese Year of the Pig in association with , there is something for all: https://t.co/P2aggk1dop.

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Two striking illustrations by Robin Jacques, one for 'Easter, 1916' by W.B. Yeats , the other for his own 'Book of Dragons': https://t.co/lcHG1AkzMV

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This is the nature of the art world. Some paintings ‘go misssing’ and then show up again years later, from the strangest and greatest locations ... (Jack B. Yeats’ Sleep Sound) https://t.co/q9PPszpLij

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Thread: For many years Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) has been held up by the Irish establishment as the greatest Irish painter. Let’s take a look at his work. The White Horse (1956)

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Recent Aquisition: ‘Celtic Wonder Tales’ by Ella Young, Illustrated by Maud Gonne, 1910. Maud Gonne was a fascinating figure, Irish Revolutionary, Suffragette and muse to W B Yeats. This signed copy also has a pen and ink illustration to the ffep of one of the vignette designs

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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
W.B. Yeats.

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Come scrive Yeats: Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare rides upon sleep. E il Signore delle Tenebre di in di è la bestia iconica, che nel suo leggendario ghigno sussurra alla principessa: We are all animals m'lady.

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Burn’s Irish art goes up for sale.. Works by Jack B Yeats, Roderic O'Conor, John Lavery, William Orpen, Walter Osborne, John Leech, Mary Swanzy, Rowan Gillespie and a host of others are for up auction on November 21. https://t.co/5oA24C5lPk

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For my summer project I made a cute 70 page flipbook based on the poem ‘The Cat and the Moon’ by W.B Yeats 🌙

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CULTURE NIGHT 2018:

Francis Heery will present 'Moon Phases' at Yeats’ Tower, a site-specific installation & performance commissioned by in response to Yeats’ 'A Vision' on 21 September, starting w/composer talk at 5pm & ending 10.30pm

https://t.co/Ml9XPGJYbu

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La corrente torbida di sangue è scatenata, ovunque - Il rito dell'innocenza è sommerso; / Ai migliori manca ogni convinzione, /mentre i peggiori / Sono pieni di appassionata intensità
William Butler Yeats

Buona domenica
Rosso Fiorentino Pietà,Louvre

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