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71: 159:, and had been inspired by his printing work. Gleeson offered the Yeats sisters her large house in Dundrum, in which a crafts group providing training and work for young women, in the fields of bookbinding, printing, weaving, and embroidery, could live and work. Bookbinding workshops were a later addition to the studio. The sisters' cousin 247:. In 1908, after the Press had produced eleven literary titles, the different elements of the Dun Emer studio separated completely, with Gleeson retaining the Dun Emer name. The Yeats sisters left Dundrum and took the new name Cuala for their operations, Elizabeth establishing the 696: 264: 228:. The texts it published were written or selected by W. B. Yeats, who was the press's literary editor and who also subsidized its operations, which lacked profitability. In its 1175: 773: 490: 1364: 910: 532:
Robin Skelton, 'Twentieth-Century Irish Literature and the Private Press Tradition: Dun Emer, Cuala, & Dolmen Presses 1902-1963' in
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A Book of Saints and Wonders put down here by Lady Gregory according to the old writings and memory of the people of Ireland
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The Love Songs of Connacht, being the fourth chapter of the songs of Connacht, collected and translated by Douglas Hyde
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As well as books, the Press also printed broadsheets designed by Jack Yeats, and hand-coloured
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1902-08 Irish private press founded and run by the Yeats siblings and Evelyn Gleeson
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and shows Emer standing underneath a tree. Monsell also created the symbol of the
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Twenty one poems written by Lionel Johnson, selected by William Butler Yeats
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at princeton.edu (Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders and Book Designers)
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Some Essays and Passages by John Eglinton, selected by William Butler Yeats
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Colby Library Quarterly, series 3, no.11, August 1953, p. 171-183.
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Much labouring: the texts and authors of Yeats's first modernist books
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issued early in 1903, the press boasted of "a good eighteenth century
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In 1904, the Dun Emer crafts studio was organized into two parts, the
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Sixteen poems, by William Allingham, Selected by William Butler Yeats
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The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: The Celtic Revival 1830–1930
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of books, printed by hand in the manner of William Morris's
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The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical
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Device of the Dun Emer Press, designed by Elinor Monsell
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Discoveries; a volume of essays by William Butler Yeats
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In the Seven Woods: being poems of the Irish heroic age
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served as Lily's apprentice in the embroidery section.
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The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics
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Fifty Years of the Cuala Press by Ernest C. Mariner
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By Still Waters; lyrical poems old and new by A. E.
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Yeats 1365:Publishing companies established in 1902 262: 69: 766:The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems 615: 519:Paul Larmour, 'The Dun Emer Guild', in 456: 240:rags and without bleaching chemicals". 1347: 652: 557: 555: 410: 408: 1207:Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 716: 569:The Oxford Companion to Irish History 440: 438: 206:, did much of the illustration work. 848:Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 259:List of books published by the press 552: 405: 115:. 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Evelyn Gleeson
Elizabeth Yeats
William Butler Yeats

Irish
private press
Evelyn Gleeson
Elizabeth Yeats
William Butler Yeats
Celtic Revival
Emer
Cuala Press
Elizabeth
Lily Yeats
Evelyn Gleeson
Dundrum
Dublin
London
William Morris
Ruth Pollexfen
Emer
Cúchulainn
Ulster Cycle
Irish mythology
Elinor Monsell
Abbey Theatre
Dublin
Maeve
wolfhound
Jack Butler Yeats

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