The Fourth John Butler Yeats Seminar Dublin September 10-12, 2010

The Seminar organisers are offering a number of scholarships to attend the JBY Seminar. These are available to Secondary School and University students.

The scholarships do not include accommodation, meals or travel costs.

The John Butler Yeats Seminar offers opportunities for students interested in the arts as well as the history and culture of Ireland.

The lectures are informative and interesting, and there will be opportunities to have discussion with the lecturers.

  How to apply for a scholarship

Applicants must submit an essay up to 1000

words on any of the following people:

John Butler Yeats

(1839 - 1922)

Jack B. Yeats  

(1871 - 1957)

 Lily and /or Lollie Yeats

(1866 - 1949)  (1868 - 1940)

 AE (George Russell)

 AE (George Russell) (1867-1935). Archbishop Gregg called him 'That myriad minded man' - for AE was a mystic, visionary, poet, artist, pacifist and patriot. Add in his other practical talents as economist, journalist and organiser in Sir Horace Plunkett's Irish Agricultural Organisation Society which took him to every county in Ireland. He edited The Irish Homestead and its successor The Irish Statesman. AE's great expertise and abilities in the agricultural arena was recognised by the U S Government, he was invited to advise the cabinet of FDR and addressed many farming communities throughout the mid west after the introduction of The New Deal.

 John Quinn  (1870–1924),New York corporate lawyer and a major collector of books and manuscripts, concentrating on the then modern authors of Ireland, the land from which his father had emigrated.

A friend of  W B Yeats and his brother Jack B. Yeats and care-taker of their father John Butler Yeats in New York. He purchased many of W B's papers, the manuscript of Joyce's Ulysses, the manuscripts of Conrad's novels, and many of Pound's and Eliot's manuscripts, including the original version of The Waste Land. Most of these he sold (1923) to have funds for purchasing modern French paintings. Quinn organised the first exhibition of European art the famed 1913 Armory Show in New York.

 A biography of Quinn by B. L. Reid, The Man from New York (1968), was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

Jeanne Robert Foster (1879-1970) was born in the Adirondacks in upstate New York State. JRF was a remarkable women for her time being a journalist for hte widely read American Review of Reviews, a model and a poet during the birth of the Age of Moderism. Her poetry first published in 1916 Neighbors of Yesterday and  Wild Apples received much acclaim, indeed they are valued and enjoyable reading to this day and give a terrific view of life in mountainous region of upper New York State at the turn of the 20 century. A socialite in her younger days, she became an important activist in community affairs in her later life in the New York  town of Schenectady and here she was to provide so much material for students of the life of John Butler Yeats, including his biographer William M Murphy.

JRF provided the grave site in Chestertown NY for JBY when he died and her own grave adjoins this. Her freinds included JBY, WBY, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso and Constaantin Brancusi.