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Essays, Irish and American

First published: 1918
Pages: 74

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An Appreciation
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Recollections of Samuel Butler
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Back to the Home
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Why the Englishman is Happy
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Synge and the Irish
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The Modern Woman
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Watts and the Method of Art
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Essays, Irish and American is a 1918 collection of essays by John Butler Yeats (1839-1922), the Irish portrait painter and writer who was the father of the poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Jack B. Yeats. John Butler Yeats trained as a barrister before turning to portraiture and was a central figure of the Dublin and London artistic and literary worlds of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and a close friend of John O'Leary, Edward Dowden, and Standish O'Grady. In 1907 he travelled to New York at sixty-eight and spent the last fifteen years of his life there in a Greenwich Village boarding house, painting portraits and writing for the American press. The essays collect his American journalism on Irish nationalism, painting, poetry, and the differences between Irish and American character. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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John Butler Yeats

John Butler Yeats built his reputation through portrait painting, essays, and the intellectually independent conversation that shaped a remarkable artistic family. Trained for the law, he abandoned legal practice for art and studied at Heatherley’s in London.

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