Lily Yeats

13/06/2021

Happy birthday, brother Willie, born this day 156 years ago in Sligo

“Born on this day 156 years ago, and sketched by his dad The poet ”

16/03/2019

Happy birthday, Pappa.

He is probably best known for his portrait of the young William Butler Yeats which is one of a number of his portraits of Irishmen and women in the Yeats museum in the National Gallery of Ireland. …

22/09/2015

Willie, in his Golden Dawn days

22/09/2015

a cartoon, which fairly well sums up Maud and Major MacBride, and my poor brother

22/09/2015

Willie, aged 19

22/09/2015

One of my favourite photographs of Willie, 1891

22/09/2015

Maud in youth. She was a great beauty, Irish patriot, and feminist, but led my brother along. We didn't get on.

20/05/2015

Good man, yourself!

On the second day of , The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall viewed highlights from The Niland Art Collection at The Model in Sligo.

17/05/2015

loumargi: “Stillman ,Marie Spartali- Feeding The Doves At Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire Stillman,Marie Spartali - The Long Walk At Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire ”

27/04/2015

Jane Morris pre raphaelite Muse: Jenny and May Morris 1870

20/04/2015

Willie reading his poems.

The great Irish poet William Butler Yeats was born on this day in 1865.