The Boston College Irish Studies Program presents a two-day symposium with contributing scholars on February 20th and 21st in connection with Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family & The Public Arts, open from February 1 to May 31 at the McMullen Museum. The symposium will invite an interdiscplinary array of scholars to the Connolly House on February 20th and to the McMullen Museum on February 21st. A line up and information on how to register is forthcoming.

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.