Object Lessons: Yeats in Focus

Object Lessons: Yeats in Focus is a new lecture series at the National Library of Ireland. Each month an object from the exhibition Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats is selected for discussion.
Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin 2.
Admission is free, no booking is required.
Wednesday 14 October at 7pm
Lecture: Yeats and the occult, Professor Margaret Mills Harper, Georgia State University.
Object of the Month: Automatic Writing notebook.
Tuesday, 10 November at 7pm.
Lecture: Maud Gonne, Dr Margaret Ward
Object of the Month: Mammoth portrait of Maud Gonne by Alfred Werner
Tuesday, 8 December
Lecture: Yeats, music and the psaltery, Professor Harry White MRIA, University College Dublin.
Object of the Month: The Psaltery.
For details of lectures for 2010..
January’s object and lecture will be selected on the basis of visitors’ choices. You can cast your vote at the exhibition or by email (yeats@nli.ie).Visit the Yeats exhibition at the National Library or alternatively visit our online Yeats exhibition
Wednesday, 17 February at 7pm.
Lecture: The poem on the mountain, Professor Jerusha McCormack (Visiting Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University)
Object of the Month: Lapis Lazuli carving & poem
March’s object and lecture will be selected on the basis of visitors’ choices. You can cast your vote at the exhibition or by email (yeats@nli.ie). Visit the Yeats exhibition at the National Library or alternatively visit our online Yeats exhibition
Tuesday, 27 April at 7pm.
Lecture: Portraying George Yeats: The medium and the message, Professor Ann Saddlemyer, Visiting Professor, University of Victoria
Object of the Month: Portrait of George Yeats by Edmund Dulac .

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