To be loved as a cupboard: the Yeats Museum in the National Gallery of Ireland. (Cover). From: Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Pyle, Hilary | COPYRIGHT 2001 Irish American Cultural Institute. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ACCORDING TO George Moore, who had no difficulty in finding something acid to say about any of his Dublin compares, the painter Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) looked bored in the National Gallery of Ireland. Moore though, while cynical, was astute and observant. In Vale he compared the artist with the playwright John Millington Synge: "Synge and Jack Yeats are like each other in this, neither takes the slightest interest in anything except life, and in their own deductions from life; ed...

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