The Yeats Sisters

In the early decades of the twentieth century, two exceptional Irish women made a significant contribution to a fledgling Irish Arts & Crafts Movement, the Literary Revival and its aesthetic imprint.

Susan and Elizabeth Yeats, fondly known within the family as ‘Lily & Lollie’, respectively, were notable artists, skilled crafts people and courageous cultural and entrepreneurial innovators, who advanced the emancipation of women through training and education.

A commemoration project

Establish an annual event, beginning July 2023 with an inaugural symposium, to:

• Celebrate the aesthetic and cultural portfolio of the Yeats sisters, their entrepreneurship and contribution to female empowerment.
• Promote the Yeats’ sisters and their family’s forty years of association with Churchtown & Dundrum, county Dublin, and
• Reconnect the relevance of their pioneering achievements to a modern Ireland

Advisory Group

This project is being advised by a working group:

• Fiona Bailey: Artist and committee member of the Irish Guild of Embroiderers
• Damien Brennan: Yeatsian and former President of Yeats Society Sligo.
• Mary Doherty: Founder of brand design agency, Red Dog, and President of the Institute of Designers of Ireland.
• Madeleine Mulrennan: Public Policy Consultant and former President of St Catherine’s College of Education, Sion Hill.
• Alex White: Senior Counsel and former government Minister.