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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Markievicz House should honour Jack Yeats
Markievicz House is where Jack Yeats grandfather Pollexfen lived in Sligo. Jack Yeats came to live with his grandfather after he sold this house to live in a smaller house in Merville. But this internationally and nationally renowned artist has been forgotten about by the authorities of this Gateway City.
We have the Yeats Building on High Bridge to remind us of his brother W.B. Yeats and a statue of the poet at the Ulster Bank. But there is no such place dedicated to Jack Yeats.
We have pieces of Jack’s work at the Library and the Model and Niland Art Centre but there should one centre where he is commemorated.
It is about time that we dedicated Markievicz House to Jack Yeats or to the Yeats/Pollexfen connection.
We should have a statue of Jack Yeats outside on the lawn, looking across at Knocknarea and the harbour.
Jack Yeats went to school in the Grammar on the Mall and lived in Sligo into his teenage years. Indeed he wrote of his time here in a book, called "Sligo", which was semi-autobiographical.
If we were to restore Markievicz House and dedicate it to Jack Yeats it could also be used to display paintings by other Sligo artists, such as Paddy Collins, who was born in Easkey and Sean McSweeney, who lives in Ballyconnell and is regarded as a modern day Jack Yeats.
Brendan Rowland,
21 Glencarraig,
Ballinode,
Sligo.
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