Taney Parish Centre, Dundrum, County Dublin.

Morning session

10.00: Registration/Coffee

10.30: Official Opening of the Commemoration Day by Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media

Followed by the opening lecture:

‘Lily and Elizabeth Yeats: art, making, and meaning.’

Dr. Angela Griffith, Cuala Press Project, Schooner Foundation, TCD.

11.30: The Yeats sisters and the Irish revival.

Dr. P.J. Mathews (UCD; Director, UCD Creative Futures Academy)

12.00: The Art of the Book – marking their first publication ‘In the Seven Woods’ (16.07.1903)

Dr. Lucy Collins, UCD and Mary Plunkett – Designer & Letterpress Printer.

The morning session will be chaired by Dr Elaine Sisson, IADT.

13.00 -14.00: lunch period.

Afternoon session

14.00- 15.45: Two separate events

Lecture & workshop in association with the Irish Guild of Embroiderers:

Dr Ann Wickham: ‘The  Embroiderer within the Arts and Crafts movement’

followed by an introductory one-hour workshop (20 participants) hosted by the Irish Guild of Embroiderers.

or

A guided walking tour of the Yeats’ life in Churchtown/Dundrum with John Lennon, local historian, and in collaboration with dlr Dundrum Library and the Church of Ireland Taney parish.

To mark the occasion a graveside tribute and floral wreath laying will be made at the Sisters’ grave in St Nahi’s churchgrounds.

16.00: Closing session

‘The Yeats sisters and pioneering enterprises.’

Dr Billy Shortall, Cuala Press Project, Schooner Foundation, TCD.

17.00 Close.

Each session will be chaired, followed by a Q&A.

On Sunday 16^th July, the anniversary publish date (16^th July 1903) of the Dun Emer’s first book: In the Seven Woods, an introductory workshop to experience the craft of letterpress printing will be hosted for a limited number of participants at the National Print Museum, Beggars Bush, Dublin.

This Symposium is made possible with the collaborative support of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Heritage & Libraries; the Cuala Press Project, Schooner Foundation, Trinity College Dublin; National Print Museum, the Irish Guild of Embroiderers and the Yeats Society Sligo.