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Yeats, Jack Butler

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
Date: 20000101
Author:ROBERT WELCH

Yeats, Jack Butler (1871–1957), painter and author. Born in London, the youngest child of John Butler Yeats and brother of W. B. Yeats , he grew up mainly in Sligo, and attended art schools in London. He became a friend of J. M. Synge , with whom he shared walking tours in the west of Ireland, leading to a joint commission to produce a series of articles for the Manchester Guardian (1905), which furnished the illustrations later used for Synge's The Aran Islands (1907). He returned to live in Ireland in 1910, first at Greystones, Co. Wicklow, then in Dublin. Yeats began ...

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