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: The poem on the mountain
Lecturer: Professor Jerusha McCormack (Visiting Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University)

Object of the Month: Lapis Lazuli carving & poem

Poet, Harry Clifton presented Yeats with a Chinese lapis lazuli carving for his seventieth birthday. ‘Lapis Lazuli’, one of WB Yeats’ best known later poems, was inspired by the carving and dedicated to Clifton.

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