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BEN BULBEN.net is a web site about the Yeats Family of Sligo. The title BEN BULBEN evokes the distance - both in time and space - from Sligo and the magical YEATS COUNTRY, in the heart of which is the resting place of W. B. Yeats and his wife George in Drumcliffe Churchyard. At the foot of BEN BULBEN the mountain dominating the landscape of Sligo town from the North and facing that other dominant magical cairn topped mountain KNOCKNAREA. MacLysaght's The Surnames of Ireland defines the name YEATS as meaning 'dweller by the gate'. A more appropriate name could not have been given to W. B. and his family; for their vast opus is indeed a 'doorway' to the intellectual 'truth' of life. BEYOND BEN BULBEN invite you to enter through this gate to meet with some contemporaries of the Yeats family including: AE(George Russell) ;George Moore; James Joyce; Oliver St John Gogarty; Lady Gregory; and many other great men and women of literature. |
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Copyright Declan Foley 2008 Items from the Beyond Ben Bulben web pages may be used where Copyright ownership is acknowledged |
LINKS to OTHER SITES The W B Yeats Society of New York The Sligo Yeats Society & Yeats Summer School, Yeats Memorial Building, Hyde Bridge, Sligo Details of the 2008 Yeats International Summer School |
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| The MacCready's play COOLE LADY reviewed by Maureen E. Mulvihill with sound and images |
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| Statute of W B Yeats Sligo |
| Dr P.J. Mathews School of English, Drama & Film University College Dublin Podcast Series The Art of Popular Culture: from the "Meeting of the Waters" to Riverdance. They can be downloaded (with transcripts) www.ucd.ie/scholarcast |
| A little information on contemporaries and friends of the Yeats family James Stephens AE George Russell |
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dublinirelandassist.com POETRY IRELAND NEILL MANN'S W B YEATS 'A VISION' |
| Forthcoming new book on Jack B.Yeats The Only Art edited by Declan J Foley Letters of John Butler Yeats to his son Jack B. Yeats and essays to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Jack B.Yeats (1871 - 1957) Essaysists: Hilary Pyle, John Purser, Giovanna Tallarico, Leslie Waddington, Avis Berman, John Loughery, Maureen Murphy, Bruce Stewart, Betsy Fahlman Publisher The Lilliput Press Dublin Launch to take place in Sligo during Yeats International Summer School 2008 at Easons (Conways) Bookshop Sligo |