Each month an object from the Yeats exhibition is selected for discussion.

Admission is free, no booking is required.

In addition to the monthly lectures, each object of the month will be featured in daily tours of the Yeats exhibition.

Lecture: Maud Gonne
Lecturer: Dr Margaret Ward

Object of the Month: Mammoth portrait of Maud Gonne by Alfred Werner

Yeats wrote of Maud Gonne “I had never thought to see in a living woman so great beauty. It belonged to famous pictures, to poetry, to some legendary past.” In this lecture, Dr Margaret Ward will discuss the life of Maud Gonne and her influence on the work of WB Yeats.

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