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

  Hilary Pyle

              John Yeats and The Other Susan: Susan Mitchell

 John Purser

       John, Jack and Sarah Purser,

  Roisin Kennedy

  Lucy McDiarmid

  Nicholas Allen

        Jack Yeats in Pieces

  Cathy Fagan 

  Eileen Egan Mack

      Jeanne Robert Foster

  Nicola Gordon Bowe 

      I made my son a coat covered with embroideries out of  

      old mythologies 

      from W.B. Yeats, /A Coat.

  Alison Ni Dhorchaide

   Jack B. Yeats and John Millington Synge in the

   West of Ireland

    Joan McCready  Lady Gregory

    Sam McCready   The Great Yeats

   Doug Saum

       Body Swayed to Music: The Musicality of W. B. Yeats

  Bruce Stewart 

 ' "The best lack all conviction?":  Art, Belief among the Yeatses (John, Jack, and Willie).'

 We who care deeply about the arts find ourselves the priesthood of an almost forgotten faith, and we must, I think, if we would win the people again, take upon ourselves the method and fervour of a priesthood. We must be humble and half proud. ... We must baptize as well as preach

W. B. Yeats: "Ireland and the Arts", 1901