Sisters Elizabeth and Lily Yeats are being brought back into the spotlight by a new project at Trinity College Dublin.
Lily and Elizabeth Yeats helped create a new sense of Irish identityOn it are John Butler Yeats, portrait painter, and sons Jack Yeats, the well-known artist, and William Butler Yeats, Nobel prize-winning poet.Sisters Elizabeth and Lily Yeats share a fleeting derogatory reference in James Joyce's Ulysses where they are labelled the "weird sisters".
As the country moved to partition in 1921, Cuala Press presented a fresh image of Ireland across the world. Their handprinted books, cards and prints were popular in Ireland, the UK and America. "We believe that the work of Elizabeth Yeats, and the female artists who worked with her, deserves to be re-visited," she said.
"There was a real connection across the country, arts and designers were supporting each other and that continued even after independence and the setting up of the [Irish] Free State." "Prior to that, a lot of art work was about landlords commissioning landscape paintings of their estates to be hung on the wall.Elizabeth Yeats, left, at an arts and crafts fair in Belfast
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