...In Ireland, Elizabeth and Lily Yeats are remembered if at all as the “weird sisters” – a fleeting, scornful reference in James Joyce’s Ulysses....They ran an arts and craft enterprise, Cuala Press, from 1908 to 1940, but Elizabeth and Lily were chiefly known as the sisters of two famous brothers – the poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Jack Yeats....The Cuala Press employed only women and produced handcrafted books, cards and prints that won glowing reviews at exhibitions in Paris, London, Chicago and elsewhere, seeding a romanticised image of Irishness that verged on propaganda....
#OTD in 1839 – John B. Yeats, painter and father of William Butler and Jack B. Yeats, was born in Tullylish, Co Down.
He is probably best known for his portrait of the young William Butler Yeats which is one of a number of his portraits of Irishmen and women in the Yeats museum in the National Gallery of Ireland. His portrait of John O’Leary (1904) is considered his masterpiece (Raymond Keaveney 2002).
His parents were William Butler Yeats (1806–1862) and Jane Grace Corbert, John Butler Yeats was the eldest…
Jack: If you need me, I'll be inside the trashcan over there. After all, I belong in the trash. WITH THE TRASH, too.
Clay: aaw. Don't say that! Besides, You wouldn't even fit in there, evil pardner. It's too small for you.
Omi: Clay is right! You can't fit in the bin of trash. But you know WHERE can you fit?
Jack: Where?
Omi: You can fit perfectly in my arms! :D
Jack, sobbing: Cheeseball ....
*Jack proceeds to crawl toward Omi on his knees and then hugs him