March 2005 Edition
Exhibitions/Lectures

Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats
National Library of Ireland
Opening May 2006

The Yeats collection is one of the largest literary collections in the National Library of Ireland, and the largest collection of Yeats manuscripts in a single institution anywhere in the world. These are not generally on view to the public but this will change when the Library’s first major exhibition on Yeats opens in May 2006.

Highlights of the exhibition will include manuscript drafts of many of his greatest and best-known poems such as Sailing to Byzantium and Among School Children, and the first edition in pamphlet form of Easter 1916.

Visitors to the exhibition will be able to follow Yeats from his early childhood in Sligo, London and Dublin, through his early career as a young poet, his public recognition as the leading exponent of the Celtic Twilight, his involvement with theatre, and his evolution as a key modernist poet.

The exhibition will make full use of digital media including electronic ‘turning the page’ technology and multimedia to convey the interest and excitement of Yeats’ life and of his creative process. The exhibition will also include a selection of precious Yeats family treasures on temporary loan.

To be put on the mailing list for the Yeats exhibition, please email your details to <yeats@nli.ie>.

Exhibitions/Lectures List
Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats
A century of news photography:
Irish Independent Centenary		 
Irish Historical Society Lectures
Oral History: Roundtable 
Discussion

A century of news photography:
Irish Independent Centenary (1905–2005)

18 October 2005–21 March 2006

 
In November 2004, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Limited donated its entire photographic collection, comprising more than 300,000 images, to the National Library of Ireland. This exhibition was designed to mark the donation and celebrate the centenary of the Irish Independent. The photographs on show allow offer a glimpse of the photographic record created by the Irish Independent over the last century. It is hoped to make the collection available to researchers over the next few years. There are currently 500 images digitized and these can be viewed on the library’s online catalogue by searching under Independent Newspapers as photographer.
 

Irish Historical Society Lectures
Oral History: Roundtable Discussion
Tues 7 March, 7.00p.m.
Centre for Irish Programmes, Boston College Ireland
42 St Stephen’s Green

Panel: Dr Sean O’Connell, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Hugo Manson, University of Aberdeen
Comdt Victor Laing, Military Archives
Dr Maura Cronin, Mary Immaculate College (UL)
Dr Anna Bryson, Trinity College Dublin

Contact: Thea Gilien t: 01 614 7450 e: <gilien@bc.edu> Admission fee: Free

 
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