a Yeats & the West day
Friday 27th November 2015
Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
William Butler Yeats, poet, playwright, politician, and Nobel prize-winner for literature, always looked west. The Yeats & the West exhibition at NUI Galway, with rare books, art, music, drama, and film, discovers what the west meant to him, and what this means for us. As part of the Yeats & the West programme, the day-long symposium Western Worlds tells the story of the western cultural revolution that shaped modern Ireland. Featuring talks on W.B.Yeats’s poems, plays, artistic collaborations and love affairs, and featuring his co-conspirators Jack B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Padraic Pearse and Eva Gore Booth, it includes poetry readings and an exclusive interview with the artist John Behan about current exhibitions of Yeatsian-themed sculptures and drawings. Western Worlds tells a story of going west to find those places, real and imaginative, that change our sense of where and who we are.
Western Worlds: A Day at Yeats & the West
Bridge Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway
Friday 27th November 2015
10.45am Welcome & Kisses
Adrian Frazier Yeats & Maud Gonne: The Meaning of Their Kisses
12pm Poems
Brian Arkins W.B.Yeats & G.M. Hopkins
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile ‘Listening to this rude and beautiful poetry’: J.M. Synge as song collector in the Aran Islands
1pm Lunch
2pm Plays
Barry Houlihan ‘Suffering Spirits and Remorseful Dead’: Remembrance and Re-enactments in the plays of W.B. Yeats
Ian Walsh The Painted Play: Jack B. Yeats and the Postdramatic Theatre
3pm Revivals
Mary Harris Realism, Idealism and the Gaelic Revival
Maureen O’Connor Some Vague Utopia: Eva Gore-Booth’s The Death of Fionavar (1916)
4pm Coffee
4.30 Arts
Adrian Paterson with Barry Houlihan (curators of Yeats & the West) Yeats among the Arts: exhibition highlights tour
from 5pm in Special Collections
5.30pm Poems
David Clare & Deirdre Clare dramatic readings
6.30pm Reception
7pm Bulls
John Behan The Bull of Sheriff Street in conversation
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