Jack B Yeats - Irishmen All

Re: Jack B Yeats - Irishmen All

feeds@yuku.com (Peter Mc RIC) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:30:30 PST

Its available as a reprint or as a free download, but quite seriously I'd recommend getting an original copy - it'll be expensive - but will be a much more satisfying read!

Re: Jack B Yeats - Irishmen All

feeds@yuku.com (46keoghclan) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:01:59 PST

What a lovely extract from Irishmen All, thank you for sharing it. Is the book still in print? I would enjoy reading it.

Jack B Yeats - Irishmen All

feeds@yuku.com (Peter Mc RIC) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:56:42 PST

Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was perhaps the most important Irish artist of the 20th Century. Both he and his poet brother, William Butler Yeats, had no connections with the RIC and indeed had mainly republican sympathies. However Jack did produce one of the most evocative portraits of an Irish policeman I have ever seen - his rendition of an RIC police sergeant, leaning on his blackthorn stick outside a country barracks, perfectly captures the spirit of that gentle time just before the Great War, and the upheavals of Easter 1916, changed Ireland forever.

The portrait appears in the book "Irishmen All" by George A Birmingham (T N Foulis 1913). Birmingham (whose real name was Rev James Owen Hannay) was active for a while on the executive of the Gaelic League. This book was a mildly satirical, and gently humorous, study on the main...