Letters by a teenage Yeats go under the hammer
Seven unpublished letters written by a teenage William B. Yeats will go on sale at Sotheby’s in London tomorrow. The guiding price for the letters is between €13,000 to €20,000. The letters were written between 1883 and 1886. One of the letters has echoes of one of Yeats’s most famous…
Hopes that Jack B. Yeats items will be on display in The Model in Sligo
There are hopes that a treasure trove of newly-discovered items by the artist Jack B Yeats will be on public display in The Model Arts Centre in Sligo as soon as it opens again, hopefully early next year. The items were given to The Model two years ago by a…
Unknown film footage of WB Yeats reinterment available to the public
Unknown film footage of the reinterment of Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats at Drumcliffe in north Sligo in 1948 is now available for the public to see. The colour piece of film shows the funeral and burial of Yeats, as well as the crowds of people who were…
Yeats books sells at auction for €48,000
Two significant books and manuscripts with Sligo connections have sold at auction for a combined sale price of over €58,000. An extremely rare book gifted by William Butler Yeats to Maud Gonne has been bought for a hammer price of €48,000. The unrecorded illustrated copy of WB Yeats’ The Wonderings…
Yeats anniversaries commemorated in Sligo
Two Yeats anniversaries were commemorated in Sligo at the weekend. The 79th anniversary of the death of W B Yeats was marked on Sunday evening with a celebration of his works through poetry, musicand song in Drumncliffe Church, beside where the Nobel Prize-winning poet is buried. The commemoration was organised…
Former Yeats Society president’s funeral to take place tomorrow at 2pm
The funeral takes place tomorrow of Aleck Crichton, a former president of the Yeats Society in Sligo who spent his working life in the family’s famous Jameson whiskey business. He initiated the merger that brought Jamesons, Powers and Cork Distillers together to form Irish Distillers. Crickton, like his grandfather, was…
Launch of the Sport Ireland Yeats Tour of Sligo on Saturday
The launch of the 2017 Sport Ireland Yeats Tour of Sligo takes place tomorrow at 12.30pm in Sligo City Hall. The Tour ambassador Eve McCrystal will be in attendance. Tandem cyclist Eve was a gold medallist at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio, partnering Katie-George Dunleavy, whose father hails from Mountcharles…