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

  Hilary Pyle

              John Yeats and The Other Susan: Susan Mitchell

 John Purser

       Yeatses, Pursers and Jelletts

  Roisin Kennedy

          Art, Politics and Religion : The Jack B. Yeats National     Loan Exhibition 1945

    Lucy McDiarmid

  Nicholas Allen

        Jack Yeats in Pieces

  Cathy Fagan 

  She Walks in Beauty:  Jeanne Robert Foster and Modern Art

  Eileen Egan Mack

      Jeanne Robert Foster

  Nicola Gordon Bowe 

        I made my song a coat
       Covered with embroideries
       Out of old mythologies" (W.B.Yeats, 'A Coat'): Cuala and  the Yeats Sisters.

  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

People are always trying to get away from the finite. Those pompous and impudent cubists would deny it altogether: they have the courage to do so. The sentimentalists have not this courage. In a cowardly & self-indulgent way which moves contempt, they elude it by ingenious sophistry saying that it does not mean what it obviously does mean. These cubists say: 'Away with the finite, it is only a hindrance and an embarrassment and a nuisance.' They want to be poets and artists and don't see that first of all they must be men."

Letter of JBY to WBY November 21st, 1916

Further Letters of John Butler Yeats: Selected by Lennox Robinson, p6