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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

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

Sarah Crease (1826-1922) artist, diarist & daughter of botanist John Lindley, spent her early life in Her botanical illustrations were included in her father's publications Gardener's Chronicle & The Vegetable Kingdom https://t.co/w5upFanAw4

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2020-03-08

Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;
Sun20Oct1889 John O'Leary (pic by WBY's father) visits in
Sun20Oct2019 visit + walk: booking- https://t.co/fJ3DaIp87R

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2019-09-25