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Join us here at the Gallery for a free morning of talks and discussion coinciding with the exhibition Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts at the McMullen Museum, Boston. Free admission, but places are limited so book in advance.
The National Gallery of Ireland has loaned a number of significant archives and artworks to the international exhibition Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts, at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College (1 February – 31 May 2026). The exhibition celebrates the remarkable impact the Yeats family had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland, and features significant loans from the Gallery’s Yeats Archive, including sketchbooks, embroidery and theatre design.
To mark the occasion, the Centre for the Study of Irish Art is hosting a study morning on the Yeats Family in the Gallery Reading Rooms. Join us for a morning of talks exploring themes related to the Yeats exhibition in Boston, and the extraordinary Yeats Archive at the National Gallery of Ireland. Gallery Curators Marie Lynch and Sarah McAuliffe will share new research undertaken for the McMullen Museum exhibition catalogue, and recent Boston College symposium on the Yeats family. Archivist Leah Benson will highlight examples of Lily Yeats’s embroidery, specially conserved for display at the McMullen Museum, and Conservator Muirne Lydon will discuss the Gallery’s Yeats Research Project – an innovative multidisciplinary study investigating the material history of Jack B. Yeats’s paintings.
Image: Elizabeth C. Yeats (1868-1940) and Ruth Lane Poole (1885-1974), Blackbirds and peony cushion cover, designed by Yeats, embroidered by Poole, c. 1903. Yeats Archive. Photo, National Gallery of Ireland.
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National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square West,Dublin, Ireland
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