WBY
's brother, Jack Butler Yeats
, was an illustrator and landscape painter.
Friends, Associates
John Millington Synge
Both of these became important influences on Synge's life and writing. Synge also became a friend of Jack Yeats
, the poet's brother, an artist who illustrated several of his works.
Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1994.
While she lived in Dublin TD
became friendly with many of the most prominent people on the Irish literary and cultural scene: Ria Mooney
, Lennox Robinson
, Jack B. Yeats
, and Patrick Hennessy
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A collection of pieces by JMS
(some written for newspapers) were posthumously published as In Wicklow, West Kerry, and Connemara, again with drawings by Jack Yeats
.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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The pioneering photographs Synge took on the Aran Islands between l898 and 1902, along with others taken in Galway, Dublin, and Wicklow, were used by Jack Yeats
for his illustrations for articles...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
She offered it to the Hogarth Press
, where Leonard Woolf
passed it to the office boy, Richard Kennedy
(with Sligo by Jack Yeats
) to try his hand at a reader's report. Kennedy consulted...
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JMS
's travel book and great prose manifesto of the Irish literary revival,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Aran Islands (completed in November 1901), reached print, illustrated with drawings by Jack Yeats
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kiely, David M. John Millington Synge: A Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1994.