Andy de forrest behind stacks of YEATS'GHOSTS

The author meets the signing line

Karl Marx...

...underwent some alterations for the occasion

Readers congregate

John Casey presided over the festivities

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Ron White delivers The Death of Cuchulain

Tom Quinlan reads poems of Paul Kavanagh

Pam Bremer offers Shadow Cousins

Sam Monash presents the celebrated Ronsard sonnet transmogrified by Yeats

Phyllis Lynn delivers The Second Coming

Zig Richter reads Sailing to Byzantium

Mary Robinson (Not that one!) reads from "Crazy Jane"

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Professor Bornstein expounds on Leda and the Swan and the Statute of Liberty

Richard J. Finneran is tonight reduced to slide projector

Finneran introduces the M.L. Rosenthal Award (left)

Presenting the Award

Here is what it looks like

Peter Quinn (no relation) explains how John Quinn's forebears moved from Limerick to Ohio in a futile attempt to escape the McCourts

Sullivan PJ is reminded of a story, as he proposes

the toast to Mr. Quinn.

Nancy Cardozo recalls Maud Gonne

The City Council gets into the act

Frances Scanlon and John Downing recreate...

... the correspondence of Maud Gonne and John Quinn, from Londraville's collection

Derick Dreher of the Rosenbach Museum speaks of Quinn's role in the collection

Sligo President Maura McTighe on the Summer School

"Terrible beauty" Carmel Jordan takes The Double Vision of Michael Robartes to the Rock of Cashel

Johnathan Allison on Yeats and politics

Terri Cooke introduces the awards.

Poetry Contest winners with Don Bates and Andy McGowan

Griffin Hansbury reads On Looking Into the Ladies' Room

H.R. Stoneback reads Woodsmoke in Aigues-Mortes: Late November

Michele Madigan Somerville, First Place for Portrait of A Woman with Her Marker

Philophonema performs an orignal setting of Who Goes with Fergus?

Philophonema continues with He Wishes His Beloved were Dead

Philophonema concludes with "Will to Wind", a tribute to the Irish Disapora

Is a Dictionary better than an Encyclopædia? Lester Conner (right) confers with Sam and Joan McCready

Lucy McDiarmid expounds the controversial history of the Municipal Gallery collection.

Richard Atnally discusses Yeats' self-reinvention

James Flannery emulates the Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, as Paul Winston mans the piano.

Lowe Theater

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University President L. Jay Oliva displays his expertise on the penny whistle

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The McCabes galvanized the crowd

Yeats in the Senate divorce debate recreated by members

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