This lecture examines W.B. Yeats’s not inconsiderable body of writing for the newspapers which ranges from literary journalism to letters to the editor. Attention will focus on the tensions between his clear commitment to journalistic practice and his own avowed hostility to ‘the Ireland of the newspapers’.

Richard M. Kain to Constantine Curran : encloses review of James Joyce Remembered. Recalls meeting Curran first in 1948; sending another copy to Elizabeth; trying to write two chapters on Yeats.

[Photograph of the bust of W. B. Yeats by sculptor Albert Power, RHA - profile, tilted.]

[Photograph of a bust of W. B. Yeats by sculptor Albert Power - facing forward.]

[Photograph of a bust of W. B. Yeats by sculptor Albert Power - 3/4 profile.]

[Photograph of a bust of W. B. Yeats by sculptor Albert Power - profile.]

[Photograph of a bust of W. B. Yeats by sculptor Albert Power - profile.]

James Joyce to W.B. Yeats : copy of letter to W.B. Yeats, declining membership of Irish Academy of Letters; wishes Yeats and Shaw well with the endeavour; mentions travelling to Zurich periodically for eye treatment. (Transcription in unknown hand)

An issue of the literary journal for the staff and students of University College, Dublin. A typical issue included essays, poetry, University College notes, College society notes, and reviews. This issue includes an article by William Keane on the Australian poets Adam Lindsay Gordan and Henry Clarence Kendall, as well as an article on W. B. Yeats by Aedan Cox.

In Poems and Paradigms Edna Longley argues that the archipelagic paradigm is crucial to the criticism of modern poetry in English. Quoting John Kerrigan on the expansive, multi-levelled, polycentric aspects of the literary and cultural field, she discussed five poems which display their archipelagic co-ordinates on the surface: W.B. Yeats’s Under Saturn (1919), Philip Larkin’s The Importance of Elsewhere (1955), W.S. Graham’s Loch Thom (1977), Edward Thomas’s The Ash Grove (1916) and Louis MacNeice’s Carrick Revisited (1945). For Longley, the poems’ deeper aesthetic dynamics epitomise how influences move around within the archipelago, and she particularly emphasises serial transformations of Wordsworth and Yeats. She sees archipelagic and national paradigms as complementary, but criticises the way in which national poetic canons marginalise border cases’, saying: If a poem doesn’t fit the paradigm, change the paradigm. She goes on to suggest that, in the mid twentieth century, the aesthetic significance of Yeats’s mature poetry was most significantly absorbed by MacNeice and by English poets such as Auden, Larkin, Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill. She ends by proposing that all this throws light on the archipelagic sources of Northern Irish poetry.

The Constantine Curran/Helen Laird Collection in UCD Library Special Collections contains correspondence, including letters from James Joyce to Curran, photographs, postcards, literary manuscripts, gramophone records and a large collections of printed books, pamphlets and ephemera. This collection reflects Curran and Laird's interests and networks. The following subseries of the collection are now available on the UCD Digital Library: Constantine Curran / Helen Laird Correspondence Part 1 : Letters from and related to James Joyce: a collection of 133 items including letters and cards from James Joyce to Curran ; Curran Collection - Photographs: The photograph collection contains photographs compiled by Constantine Curran and Helen Laird from 1880-1972, including photographs of James Joyce and his family ; 1916 Rising Postcards: the postcards are part of the printed book and ephemeral collection and were published in 1916 in the immediate aftermath of the Insurrection. The remainder of the collection can be accessed by appointment in UCD Library Special Collections.

This collection, which is part of the larger Constantine Curran/Helen Laird letter collection, contains material by and relating to James Joyce. It comprises 133 letters by or relating to James Joyce, members of his family, and others closely associated with him. The collection includes 25 letters from Joyce to Curran, letters from Joyce's brother Stanislaus, and correspondence from associates and friends of Joyce such as Paul Leon, Harriet Shaw Weaver, and Sylvia Beach.