The Muse Of Yeats Festival

The Muse Of Yeats Festival The Muse Of Yeats Festival is hosted by Aisling Law – the great-grandaughter of Maud Gonne at Rossnaree House, October 10 – 11, 2015.

The programme of events will include poetry readings, talks by Yeatsian scholars, artists and family members, theatre, music and a special exhibition of previously unseen artwork by Maud Gonne from the family's private collection and photographs of Maud Gonne and her daughter, Iseult. A dinner will be held on Saturday 10 October. Tickets are now available for purchase online. http://www.eventbrite

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The Muse of Yeats is sponsored by Meath County Council, in association with Yeats 2015.

Get your tickets now for the Muse of Yeats festival on October 7-8. Don't miss this amazing event.
23/08/2017

Get your tickets now for the Muse of Yeats festival on October 7-8. Don't miss this amazing event.

The Muses of Yeats Smart, Ambitious, Contemporary “All good poets…compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed by the Muse who speaks through them.” Plato Yeats never got over Maud Gonne. Over his life, nine women became his muse, several of them were his l...

'Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn? '"No Second Troy", W.B. Yeats...
05/10/2015

'Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn? '
"No Second Troy", W.B. Yeats, 1910

Join us this weekend at Rossnaree House to explore and celebrate the relationship between one of Ireland's most greatest writers, W.B. Yeats, and his muse, Maud Gonne.

We are tremendously excited to welcomw Eve Patton, professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, to start the weekend off on Saturday with a talk entitled "Maud Gonne: The Changing Muse" - an examination of Maud Gonne from one of Ireland's most prolific professors of 19th and 20th Century English Literature.

For more information, visit: http://www.rossnaree.ie/special-events/the-muse-of-yeats

The Muse Of Yeats weekend festival is on October 10 - 11 2015 at Rossnaree House, hosted by Aisling Law - the great granddaughter of Maud Gonne. 

This beautiful painting of Iseult Gonne by Maud Gonne will be available to view this weekend only at Rossnaree Houae as ...
04/10/2015

This beautiful painting of Iseult Gonne by Maud Gonne will be available to view this weekend only at Rossnaree Houae as part of The Muse Of Yeats Festival.
It will include watercolours by Maud Gonne, family paintings and memorabilia never made public before, sculpture by Bettina Seitz, and drawings by Emma Stoud.

Join us next Sunday to hear John Banville discussing W.B. Yeats' The Tower - two masters of Irish literature!
04/10/2015

Join us next Sunday to hear John Banville discussing W.B. Yeats' The Tower - two masters of Irish literature!

28/09/2015

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Rossnaree House, Rossnaree, Newgrange
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