Jack B. Yeats. Assembled memories, 1871-1957 - ACE106.3

Early film of acrobatic troupe. VO Yeats’s words on Mexican Joe’s Wild West Show. Sets and characters from one of Yeats’s Plays for the Miniature Theatre. Paintings of stage duel, circus scene with tiger, circus tent and crowd, ringmaster, etc. "The Mighty David", fairground stuntman, performing. Boats putting to sea. Painting of fisherman. Sea; Sligo lighthouse, cliffs etc. Painting Memory Harbour. Sligo. Photographs of Yeats and his wife, Cottie (Mary Cottenham White); small picture scratched on a window pane in their house. Portrait of John Masefield (1905). One of the Plays for the Miniature Theatre, a pirate story; VO recites some of the text. Yeats’s 1905 trip to the West of Ireland with J M Synge; Synge’s words over. Illlustrations for In the "Congested Districts". Painting. Horse fair. Nationalist march. Yeats’s words VO on how a local politician became a nationalist. Painting of demonstration. Sketch by John Butler Yeats of J M Synge; photos from stage production of The Playboy of the Western World, criticised for being anti-Irish.