| Archibald, Douglas N. John Butler Yeats. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. 1974 Donoghue, Denis. "John Butler Yeats" in Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation. Washington: National Portrait Gallery, 1976. Pages 260 - 269. Gordon, Robert. John Butler Yeats and John Sloan: the Records of a Friendship. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1978. Hone, Joseph, ed. J. B. Yeats Letters to His Son W. B. Yeats and Others. London: Faber and Faber, 1946; New York: E. P Dutton, 1946. Jeffares, A. Norman. The Circus Animals: Essays on W. B. Yeats. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1970. Pages 117 - 146. "John Butler Yeats," in In Excited Reverie (London: Macmillan, 1965), Pages 24 - 47. Londraville, Janis, ed. Prodigal Father Revisited: Artists and Writers in the World of John Butler Yeats. West Cornwall, Connecticut: Locust Hill Press. 2003 Murphy, William M., "Father and Son: The Early Education of William Butler Yeats," in A Review of English Literature,ed. A. Norman Jeffares ( London: Longmans). Vol. Vlll, No. 4, October, 1967. Pages 75 - 96. The Yeats Family and the Pollexfens of Sligo. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1971. "Yeats, Quinn, and Edward Dowden," in John Quinn: Selected Irish Writers from His Library. ed. Janis and Richard Londraville ( West Cornwall, Connecticut: Locust Hill Press, 2001), Pages 71 - 108. "Psychic Daughter, Mystic Son, Sceptic Father," in Yeats and the Occult, ed. George Mills Harper (Canada: Macmillan of Canada), 1975, Pages 11 -26 "John Butler Yeats: The Artist and the Man," in The Drawings of John Butler Yeats ed. William M. Murphy (with Essay and Catalogue by Fintan Cullen and Foreword by Daniel Robbins. (Albany, New York: Albany Institute of History and Art, and Department of the Arts and the Department of English of Union College, 1987), Pages 11- 16. Prodigal Father: the Life of John Butler Yeats. (1839 - 1922). Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978. Reprinted Syracuse University Press, 2001 "John Butler Yeats and Rosa Butt," in William M. Murphy, Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press; Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1995), Pages 328 - 360. ed. Letters from Bedford Park: A Selection of the Correspondence of John Butler Yeats, 1890 - 1901. Dublin: The Cuala Press. 1972. Pound, Ezra, ed., Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats. Churchtown, Dundrum, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1917. Robinson, Lennox, ed Further Letters of John Butler Yeats. Churchtown, Dundrum, Ireland. 1920. White, James. John Butler Yeats and the Irish Renaissance. Dublin: The Dolmen Press. 1972. Yeats, John Butler Early Memories: Some Chapters of Autobiography. Churchtown, Dundrum, Ireland: The Cuala Press. 1923. Essays Irish and American. With an Appreciation by A.E. Dublin: The Talbot Press. 1918. Sincere appreciation to William M. Murphy. William Butler Yeats: Selected Bibliography by Sam McCready. |
| Bibliography of John Butler Yeats March 16, 1839 - February 3, 1922 John Butler Yeats was born in Tullylish near Laurencetown in County Down Ireland He married Susan Pollexfen (1841-1900) in *St. John's Church, John Street, Sligo on September 10, 1863 Susan Pollexfen Yeats died in London January 3, 1900. Interred Acton Rural Cemetery John Butler Yeats died in New York City February 3, 1922. Interred in the Chestertown Rural Cemetery near Lake George in upstate New York The first International Seminar on John Butler Yeats was held at Chestertown September 7 - 9, 2001 The second Seminar was September 6th through 10th, 2004 * St.John's Church is today the Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist It is one of the oldest buildings in use in Sligo and has been the site of a Christian Church since the coming of the Christian faith to Sligo. St. John's is also the oldest parish name in Sligo town. |
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| The essayists and some of the speakers from the First International John Butler Yeats Seminar at the launch of the papers on Sunday March 16, 2003 at The Mansfield Hotel, New York Mayor Cummins launched the essays titled Prodigal Father Revisited Artists and Writers in the world of John Butler Yeats |
| Declan J Foley, John Perry T.D., Sligo/Leitrim with the then Mayor of Sligo Councillor Tommy Cummins |
| Further JBY pages Essay |