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Images From a Past Life: W.B. Yeats on Film 

Programme 1: Short Film Montage 
Including Yeats and Friends at Hotel Gardens at Algeciras (1928), courtesy of Ann Saddlemyer.

The Prisoner 
Tim Booth’s psychedelic animation based on ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’.
FILM INFO: 10 minutes, 1989, Colour

The Song of Wandering Aengus 
Thaddeus O’Sullivan directs Michael Gambon in this new film commissioned by Yeats 2015.
FILM INFO: 2 minutes, 2015, Colour

Programme 2: Yeats Country                   
Oscar-nominated film celebrates the landscape which inspired Yeats’ poetry.*
FILM INFO: 17 minutes, 1965, Colour

*Screening courtesy of the Department of Foreign Affairs

See also: Alan Gilsenan’s A Vision: A Life of W.B. Yeats which screens on June 13th with Gilsenan in attendance.