Elizabeth Corbet Yeats: a neglected heroine.

2-26 July, 2025: DLR Dundrum Library

A collaboration between the Yeats Sisters Commemoration Project and the Irish Guild of Embroiderers, with the support of DLR Heritage and Libraries .

This exhibition will celebrate the extraordinary live and work of Elizabeth Yeats (1868-1940) as an artist, educator, craft maker, business entrepreneur, publisher, and mentor of women talent, who co-founded Dun Emer Industries (Dundrum, 1903) and established Cuala Industries/Press, along with her sister, Susan (‘Lily’), in Churchtown in 1908.

It will also be part-exhibited in Sligo Central library between August 19th and September 13th.

This exhibition is held in association with the Irish Guild of Embroiderers and will include a series of contemporary, individual works made by the Guild’s members reflecting on, and reinterpreting, the Cuala pressmark: ‘a lone tree in an Irish landscape’, which was designed by Elizabeth for the publication of  ‘Loves Bitter Sweet’ by Robin Flower, 100 years ago this year.

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Our 2023 exhibition featured sixteen pieces collected from the dlr Libraries archives, featuring works by Dorothy Blackham, Beatrice Campbell, Harry Kernoff, Elizabeth Rivers and Jack B Yeats, have been curated by Dr Billy Shortall, Cuala Press Project, Schooner Foundation, TCD.

Pictured at the opening of the exhibition, left to right: Eunan McKinney, Project Director, Yeats Sisters Commemoration Project; Deirdre Black, DLR Heritage Officer; Cllr Denis O’Callaghan, Cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; Caitriona Yeats and Dr Billy Shortall, TCD, Cuala Press Project.

This event was made possible with the collaborative partnership of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Heritage & Libraries; the Cuala Press Project, Schooner Foundation, Trinity College Dublin, and the Irish Guild of Embroiderers.