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Elizabeth Corbet 'Lolly' Yeats

In 1902, she founded the Dun Emer Guild alongside the designer Evelyn Gleeson  (1855–1944) and her sister and fellow artist Susan Mary Yeats (1866–1949). Susan and Elizabeth later co-founded the Cuala Industries following a professional split from Gleeson. Located in Dundrum, Co.Dublin, the Cuala Industries employed local Irish craftswomen in the making of textiles and printed materials for sale. There are several examples of her work in the Gallery's archival collections, including a delicate folding fan that Yeats hand-painted while working at the Cuala Industries in 1905. The fan is made of watercolour on silk and engraved tortoiseshell. It features a decorative landscape superimposed with pansies and crocuses, which frames woodland on the left and an inscription taken from the poem 'Anashuya and Vijaya' by William Butler Yeats, a lyrical poem written in 1887.

"Sigh, O you little stars.! O sigh and shake your blue apparel

The sad, sad thought has gone from me now wholly

Sing, O you little stars.! O sing and raise your rapturous carol

To mighty Brahma, be who made you many as the sands,

And laid you on the gates of evening with his quiet hands."

Excerpt from Anayusha and Vijaya as painted by Elizabeth Corbett Yeats, written by William Butler Yeats and published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889.

As well as being a beautiful piece of art and a luxury item, Elizabeth's fan is also a great example of the hand-painted Art Nouveau style fans which were popular at the time, inspired by earlier fans brought into Europe from Northeast Asia.

Although earlier fans were often expensive status symbols reserved for the nobility, by the nineteenth-century technological advances ensured that folding fans made from paper were available to a much wider audience.

Decorative, hand-painted fans like Yeats's took a lot of time and care to make and were often constructed in expensive materials like silks, feathers, gold leaf, ivory or tortoiseshell. The artists who painted these decorative fans were often women who signed their work, as Yeats did.

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I 1902, bhunaigh sí an Dun Emer Guild in éineacht leis an dearthóir Evelyn Gleeson  (1855–1944) agus a deirfiúr agus a comh-ealaíontóir Susan Mary Yeats (1866–1949). Ina dhiaidh sin bhunaigh Susan agus Elizabeth na Cuala Industries tar éis scoilt ghairmiúil ó Gleeson. Lonnaithe i nDún Droma. Tá roinnt samplaí dá saothar i mbailiúcháin chartlainne an Ghailearaí, lena n-áirítear fean fillte íogair a phéinteáil Yeats de láimh agus é ag obair sna Cuala Industries i 1905. Tá an fean déanta as uiscedhath ar shíoda agus sliogán turtair greanta. Tá tírdhreach maisiúil forshuite le pansies agus crócaí, a fhrámaíonn an choillearnach ar chlé agus inscríbhinn a tógadh ón dán 'Anashuya and Vijaya' le William Butler Yeats, dán lyrical a scríobhadh i 1887.

Agus chuir sé tú ar gheataí an tráthnóna lena lámha ciúine."Sliocht as Anayusha agus Vijaya mar a phéinteáil Elizabeth Corbett Yeats, scríofa ag William Butler Yeats agus foilsithe in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889.Chomh maith le bheith ina phíosa ealaíne álainn agus ina mhír só, is sampla iontach é lucht leanúna Elizabeth freisin de na lucht leanúna stíl Art Nouveau lámh-phéinteáil a raibh tóir orthu ag an am, spreagtha ag lucht leanúna níos luaithe a tugadh isteach san Eoraip ó Oirthuaisceart na hÁise.Cé gur minic a bhí lucht leanúna níos luaithe ina siombailí stádais costasacha in áirithe do na huaisle, chinntigh dul chun cinn teicneolaíochta sa naoú haois déag go raibh lucht leanúna fillte déanta as páipéar ar fáil do lucht éisteachta i bhfad níos leithne.Thóg sé go leor ama agus cúram le lucht leanúna maisiúla, lámhphéinteáilte ar nós Yeats’s a dhéanamh agus is minic a tógadh iad in ábhair chostasacha ar nós síodaí, cleití, órdhuille, eabhair nó sliogán turtair. Is minic gur mná a shínigh a saothar iad na healaíontóirí a phéinteáil an lucht leanúna maisiúcháin seo, mar a rinne Yeats.

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The Yeats Sisters

In the early decades of the twentieth century, two exceptional Irish women made a significant contribution to a fledgling Irish Arts & Crafts Movement, the Literary Revival and its aesthetic imprint.

Susan and Elizabeth Yeats, fondly known within the family as ‘Lily & Lollie’, respectively, were notable artists, skilled crafts people and courageous cultural and entrepreneurial innovators, who advanced the emancipation of women through training and education.

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Christina Noble

Bhí óige le pian agus brath aici. Thóg a máthair Christina agus a trí siblíní suas. Ba alcólach é a hathair agus chaith sé an aigead ar fad sa teach tabhairne. Fuair a máthair bás nuair a bhí Christina deich mblianna d'aois agus scar an stáit na páistí óna chéile agus cuirtear iad chuig dílleachtlann éagsúl. Dúradh le na páistí go bhfuair a siblín báis.

After numerous attempts to escape, Christina finally made her way back to Dublin. She ended up homeless sleeping in a hole she had dug herself in the Phoenix Park. During this time, Christina was gang raped, became pregnant and had a baby boy who was taken away for adoption against her will. After discovering the state had lied about the death of her siblings, Christina located her brother in England moved there to live with him after she turned 18. This is where she met and married her husband and had three children, Helenita, Nicolas and Androula. Over the next decade she endured domestic abuse, which led to bouts of depression and a nervous breakdown. During this period in her life, the war in Vietnam was raging, Christina began to have dreams about the war and the children affected. In one particular recurring dream, naked Vietnamese children were running down a dirt road fleeing from a napalm bombing. Christina felt like the children were reaching out to her, calling her to help them. This dream changed Christina’s life forever, inspiring her to help other children who were suffering as much as she did as a child.

Over 20 years later, in 1989, Christina embarked on a journey with the goal to assist children in need in Vietnam’s capital city Ho Chi Minh. Christina risked her life every day and night walking the city streets searching for isolated children in need of medical care and protection from economic and sexual exploitation. Over the next eight years, she built the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation.

The CNCF aims to set the children up for life, as Christina believes that childhood is the pathway to your future, the foundation of life, and that’s why she calls her organisation a foundation and not a charity. So far, the Christina Noble Foundation has set up emergency health clinics, schools, shelters for homeless boys, childcare centres, soccer teams and a vocational hairdressing school and salon. Music and swimming lessons are currently being added to this long list.

Christina still ventures out onto the streets of Vietnam searching for those at the very bottom of the needy-pile, but she would never drag a child away from their home or family. She goes to poor communities, promotes the actions of the Foundation and informs people of what she can do for them. Visiting the clinics is a choice. Christina herself works to fundraise $500,000 a year just to keep the foundation afloat. There are fundraising offices in over 14 countries around the world, most of which Christina visits every year. The group is still seeking support form the UN and governments around the world. In 1997, Christina expanded CNCF’s operations into Mongolia, where it put in place prison education programmes, healthcare projects, sponsorship schemes for children and revolving loan systems. To date, the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation has helped an estimated 140,000 children. On February 25, she received an OBE from Prince Charles in Buckingham Palace, an honour she hopes will gain further credibility for her foundation.

‘Christina what keeps you from shutting off?’ ‘I think about a little baby abandoned in jungle territory and the red ants all laying eggs inside of her head, and they ate it out and made it their house, and she was there and her little big belly from all the worms and hepatitis, yellow from top to bottom, just sitting there, a little small baby, and the doctors said, ‘She’s dead, there’s nothing we can do’. And I said, ‘Is she dead? She’s not fuckin’ dead.’ And I blew up her nose. And I think about her being a seven-year-old kid today with a great mother and father and her pinching everyone’s high heels, crafty, with her big red ribbon on her head and her frock down to her ankles with little frills. And I think about the people who helped us… I think that another 50 kids made it. Another 100 kids. Another 1,000. Two thousand. Two hundred thousand.’ [source]

Rebecca Kilbane

The Foundation is involved in numerous activities including educational assistance, community development, water tank

provision, establishing and developing educational, revolving loan programmes, emergency assistance to children and

their families, and shelters for all disadvantaged and street children, to name a few.

Since inception, Christina’s Foundation has established 120 projects and impacted the lives of over 700,000 of the poorest, most vulnerable

children and their families in Vietnam and Mongolia.

Christina still remains the principal driving force and inspiration and retains close personal contact with the children.