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'Large Reclining Figure', looking not quite so large beside The Great Pagoda. And swirling genie-out-of-the-bottle dramatic against autumn russets. 'Monumental Nature', 30 Henry Moores (largest ever exhibition) installed in spectacularly autumnal Kew Gardens (thanks Avril Mears).
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Great to see this report on a few of the key points from Fintan O'Toole's impressive & highly pertinent 2026 WB Yeats Bedford Park Lecture introduced (& written up here) by @YeatsBedfordPk founder/organiser, @CLDallat (top right pic with Fintan & project patron Ciarán Hinds).
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Newt Pond, Eric Ravilious, 1932. Depicting a scene at Great Bardfield in #Essex. After being sold to a private collection at @ChristiesInc some years ago, the artwork is now on loan to @TownerGallery.
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Thanks to @nphegarty and @HonestUlsterman for a generous review of Folly Lane - also for highlighting Roger Casement, a character illuminated by @JeffDudgeon's great historical/cultural researches Link here humag.co/features/folly-lane…
Delighted to lead @FaberBooks 'Readers' Day' on Brian Friel's 'Translations'👇
My📸of Friel at 80, opening Brian Friel Theatre at my old alma mater @QUBelfast: programme included Friel's friend Seamus Heaney, and excerpts by actor (+ my former Ballycastle neighbour) Conleth Hill.
Sat 24 Oct, 10am, £85/£75: Faber Readers’ Day: 'Translations' by Brian Friel with Cahal Dallat
Join this day-long session exploring 'Translations', led by poet & critic @CLDallat
Venue: The Bindery, EC1N 8HN
Booking: faber.co.uk/product/translat…
Pic: Studio Theater, Washington DC
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More Tues pics👇
11) with former @HonestUlsterman ed. Robert Johnstone & TV exec Anne Morrison @morria20, both from Belfast
12) Ruth Dallat & Simon Robilliard, film industry
13) local MP Andy Slaughter @hammersmithandy, a long-term supporter of our events, with audience members
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8) Fintan invoking John Keats
9) Margaret Parkinson, Harry McAlister, Mary Connolly, Kate & Adrian McAlister – Margaret & Mary are key members of @HeritageIrish, Harry & Kate loyal supporters coming over from Cushendall to all our events
10) event host @CLDallat
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More from Fintan OToole lecture
14) Cahal, journalist Rosanna Greenstreet & Matthew Fay (@YeatsBedfordPk project)
15) Ciarán, Eunan (@TheYeatsSisters) & Emer McKinney from Dublin, & Cahal
16) Kevin Morris of @StMichaelsW4, Cahal & Fintan @chiswicktabard
📷own & by Malcolm McNally
More Tues pics👇
11) with former @HonestUlsterman ed. Robert Johnstone & TV exec Anne Morrison @morria20, both from Belfast
12) Ruth Dallat & Simon Robilliard, film industry
13) local MP Andy Slaughter @hammersmithandy, a long-term supporter of our events, with audience members
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Last couple of places on repeat of my new course 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory' which starts next Sunday, 18th for 7 weeks. We're already at module six of the first run with lots of imaginative inspired cloudwriting!
info/booking: tinyurl.com/cloudwatching-su…
art: thor lindeneg
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Step off the road and in a hollow place
Too rough for lovers, seldom vexed by children,
The blackthorn blossom & the gaudy whin
Offer a dappled interval of peace.
The noisy rooks pass over and you may
Pace undiverted through the netted light
As silent as a thrush with work to do.
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Re the creative-writing course I mentioned in the post below, 'Cloudwatching: Magic, Mood & Memory', which ends soon, there is a repeat of the course starting next Sunday 18th Oct for 7 weeks, details & booking info here: tinyurl.com/cloudwatching-su…
Delighted that Anne Carson, whose genius I've long admired (pic: Poetry Society Lecture) has been awarded @NobelPrize: her mercurial shape-shifting really suits my current 'Cloudwatching' course theme & this Sunday's module features 'Tuesday I became clouds...' from 'Wrong Norma'
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Delighted that Anne Carson, whose genius I've long admired (pic: Poetry Society Lecture) has been awarded @NobelPrize: her mercurial shape-shifting really suits my current 'Cloudwatching' course theme & this Sunday's module features 'Tuesday I became clouds...' from 'Wrong Norma'
How October's looking:
🗓️Tue 6th (2moro!): hosting👇Fintan O'Toole's 2026 @YeatsBedfordPk lecture
🗓️Fri 16th: starting new #coffeehousepoetry 7-wk #BetweenTheLines masterclass
🗓️Sat 24th: leading Faber *Readers' Day* on Brian Friel's "Translations"
more: tinyurl.com/poetry-and-drama…
Fintan O'Toole to give 2026 Yeats Lecture in London:
the Yeats Bedford Park Project is delighted to welcome the renowned Irish author, columnist and drama critic to talk here on Yeats's London home-patch of🌻#BedfordPk🌻
Info/booking: tinyurl.com/fintanotoole-202… (tickets going fast!)
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2026 WB Yeats Bedford Park Lecture
National Pride & National Vanity: Yeats, Art & Patriotism with Fintan O’Toole - author, editor, literary critic, historian & author of over 20 books
7.30pm Tues 6 Oct
St Michael & All Angels Church, Bath Rd, London W4 1TT
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5 Oct 1889 Irish journalist John O'Leary (a formerly exiled Fenian activist) leaves the Yeatses' home after lecturing to #JBY's🌻#BedfordPk🌻circle on nationalism.
6 Oct 2026 (2moro!) Irish journalist Fintan O'Toole lectures in BedfordPk on some complex aspects of nationalism👇
It's tomorrow night! Last few tickets going fast so we'll have a full house for leading Irish author and commentator Fintan O'Toole and his 2026 #Yeats lecture in the @NobelPrize-winning poet's boyhood London neighbourhood of 🌻#BedfordPk🌻
Info/booking: tinyurl.com/fintanotoole-202…
Cahal Dallat retweeted
It's tomorrow night! Last few tickets going fast so we'll have a full house for leading Irish author and commentator Fintan O'Toole and his 2026 #Yeats lecture in the @NobelPrize-winning poet's boyhood London neighbourhood of 🌻#BedfordPk🌻
Info/booking: tinyurl.com/fintanotoole-202…
Explore London's latest arts-adventure with Ciarán Hinds via our (free+open24/7!) #Yeats🌻#BedfordPk🌻smartphone 📱poetry-places trail🚶round the young #Yeats's boyhood London neighbourhood: starts at @ConradShawcross RA's spiralling Yeatsian gyre #EnwroughtLight !(Turnham Grn🚇)
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Sat 24 Oct, 10am, £85/£75: Faber Readers’ Day: 'Translations' by Brian Friel with Cahal Dallat
Join this day-long session exploring 'Translations', led by poet & critic @CLDallat
Venue: The Bindery, EC1N 8HN
Booking: faber.co.uk/product/translat…
Pic: Studio Theater, Washington DC
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Lionel Johnson d. #otd 1902 aged 35; friend of #Yeats; member of Rhymers Club + @IrishLitSoc
(founded in🌻#BedfordPk🌻); Catholic convert; poems on Catholic + Irish themes; significant figure in fin-de-siecle revival of Irish "national pride" on which subject, more👇on Tue 6 Oct
Fintan O'Toole to give 2026 Yeats Lecture in London:
the Yeats Bedford Park Project is delighted to welcome the renowned Irish author, columnist and drama critic to talk here on Yeats's London home-patch of🌻#BedfordPk🌻
Info/booking: tinyurl.com/fintanotoole-202… (tickets going fast!)