A Disturbing
Influence: Maud Gonne in the life of W.B. Yeats
Adrian Frazier, NUI Galway
Public
Talk - Free Entry
6pm Thursday 14 April
This talk is an incendiary look at an incendiary relationship:
that of Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats. Using never before unearthed material
it takes us inside a troubled and troubling connection made from politics,
personality, poetry, magic, deceit, and love.
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| Adrian Frazier |
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| Maud Gonne |
A native of
St Louis, Missouri, Professor Adrian Frazier (NUI Galway) pursued
his fascination with Irish literature and theatre to the west
of Ireland, and now lives in Galway. He is the author of Behind the Scenes:
Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (Berkeley: University of California 1990),
an acclaimed biography of the Irish novelist and memoirist George Moore
and his cultural milieu, George
Moore, 1852-1933 (New Haven: Yale UP 2000)
and Hollywood Irish: John Ford, Abbey Actors, and the Irish Revival in
Hollywoood (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2011). His most recent book
is an illustrated pen portrait of artist and sculptor John Behan
entitled John Behan: The Bull from Sherriff Street (Lilliput
Press 2015). His new book is a joint biography of W.B.Yeats,
Maud Gonne, and her lover the French political activist Lucien Millevoye,
recasting completely our view of the personalities and politics of
this incendiary love triangle.
Last week
the first lecture in the weekly series was delivered by exhibition curator, Dr.
Adrian Paterson of the School of English, NUI Galway. The audience were brought
on a journey through the world of Yeats' Innisfree and what that place meant to
the young Yeats as well as how it stayed as a place of refuge and inspiration
for Yeats throughout his life.
The 'Yeats
and the West' exhibition joins the Model Gallery, Sligo following its initial
run at the Hardiman Building of NUI Galway. The exhibition was officially
launched in Sligo by Professor Jim Browne, President of NUI Galway. Speakers on
the evening of the launch also included Donal Tinney, Chair of the Board of the
Model Gallery, Adrian Paterson, NUIG and Senator Susan O'Keefe, Chair of the Yeats150 programme.
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| Prof. Jim Browne, Dr. Adrian Paterson, Susan O'Keefe, Donal Tinney, Barry Houlihan, John Cox, pictured at the launch of Yeats and the West exhibition at the Model Gallery, Sligo. |
All upcoming
events at the Model Gallery for Yeats and
the West can be seen here:
For full
details on the exhibition please visit http://yeatsandthewest.org/
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