Thoor Ballylee

Some prints of my scraperboard “The Stares Nest By My Window – WB Yeats” are to be auctioned to raise funds to restore Thoor Ballylee. This Sunday 31st of May from 17.00 in Thoor Ballylee, Gort, Co. Galway Press release….. This weekend we organise an auction to generate much needed funds to restore Thoor Ballylee. The…

The Irish Georgian Society- W B Yeats

The Irish Georgian Society is delighted to play host to St. Patrick’s Festival’s I Love My City cultural programme. The Dublin Painting and Sketching Club with The Irish Writers Centre will present an exhibition of paintings inspired by the poetry of W.B Yeats. Poetry recitals, short readings on Yeats and musical settings of his poems by harpist Claire…

WB Yeats

A preliminary drawing for something I’m working on. Charcoal and pastel on tinted paper WB Yeats The Stare’s Nest by My Window The bees build in the crevices Of loosening masonry, and there The mother birds bring grubs and flies. My wall is loosening; honey-bees, Come build in the empty house of the stare. We…