Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family & The Public Arts Symposium

In February 2026, the McMullen Museum of Art will host the exhibition Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts. Examining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats family had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century crucial to its history, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings, drawings, prints, embroideries, books, and letters by the patriarch, John Butler Yeats, and his children, William, Lily, Elizabeth, and Jack, showcase individual artistry.

 The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog, edited by Marjorie Howes, which includes fifteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of scholars offering new insights into historical contexts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. 

The exhibition is open from February 1 to May 31. A two-day symposium with contributing scholars will be held in Connolly House and at the McMullen Museum on February 20th and 21st.