The 2012 W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australians
the Fourth JBY Seminar 2010
Friday September 10:
Swift Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin
9. 30 AM Opening speech by Professor Nicholas Grene
10. 00 AM Hilary Pyle
John Butler Yeats, and the Woman Whom, Next to Lily, He Loved Most.
COFFEE BREAK
11.30 AM John Purser: Yeatses, Pursers and Jellets
AFTERNOON SESSION
2. 00 PM Sam McCready’s The Great Yeats
A dramatic story of the life of JBY, Directed by Joan McCready
This one man show had great reviews in New York, Sligo and Belfast
3. 00 PM 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.
COFFEE BREAK
4. 00 PM Doug Saum
Body Swayed to Music: The Musicality of W. B. Yeats
Saturday September 11
Swift Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin
MORNING SESSION
9. 30 AM Nicholas Allen
Jack Yeats in Pieces
10.30 AM Cathy Fagan
She Walks in Beauty: Jeanne Robert Foster and Modern Art
COFFEE BREAK
11.30 AM Eileen Egan Mack
A dramatic story of the life of Jeanne Robert Foster
AFTERNOON SESSION
2. 00 PM Roisin Kennedy
Art, Politics and Religion: The Jack B. Yeats National Loan Exhibition 1945
COFFEE BREAK
3. 15 PM Joan Mc Cready Lady Gregory
A very moving and entertaining tribute to Lady Gregory of Coole Park
Directed by Sam McCready
Sunday September 12
12.00 - 2.00 PM Curated Private visit to National Gallery
For any further information please email Seminar Secretary
declanfoley@ireland.com
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
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