How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face; W B Yeats.Good Morning 🌸

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The Mary and Ben Dunne Art Collection. In a rare move this extraordinary collection, comes to market courtesy of Dublin/Belfast. Here’s a flavour of what’s available: John Luke. Jack B Yeats. Basil Blackshaw & Frank McKelvey. It will take a lot to emulate this.

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‘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, Yeats. 🖼 Rackham

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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
... and hapless (aways dogged by a fur cup) is rendered helpless by inflation
Today's catoon references WB Yeats.
https://t.co/cpjPs3O6lI

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'Curran, ten guineas.'

Bookplate by Jack B. Yeats.

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Mary Walker / Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh (1883 – 1958) by John Butler Yeats.

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Michael O'Callaghan (1879-1921)
[Cuala Press, private printing]
First Republican Lord Mayor of Limerick 1920.
Requiescat.
Memorial leaflet, 2 pp, single folded sheet (versos blank), with elaborate hand coloured initial and other decorations by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. [1921]

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1919: Birth Anne Butler Yeats. Painter; book covers for Sáirséal agus Dill 20 years & lots others! Costume/stage designer & more. Dad WB Yeats; 'A Prayer for My Daughter' for her! Nickname was "Feathers"! https://t.co/VZvKHRVNR7 https://t.co/MUPumaWKDT

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Coole.
Pastels by W. B. Yeats.

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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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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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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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'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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1871: Birth in London 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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Being ‘Fairy led’ was not always pleasant, it could mean a fugue state where people would sometimes pine away to nothing...

My mother often described me as being ‘away with the fairies’ and meant a more benign state of dreaming though.


Words Yeats. Art self

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

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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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A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - D is for Elinor Darwin an Irish Illustrator, she worked with W.B. Yeats. She married Charles Darwin's grandson, Bernard, who wrote the Tottleoo series of books. Her illustrations for these were her most celebrated..

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