I know it's a bit of short notice, but this is just in:
On Monday evening, 7 P.M., September 19th, 2005, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St., Room C202-203, the WB Yeats Society of New York and the Institute for Irish-American Studies of the City University of New York will co-sponsor a public talk on Irish poet, painter, journalist, editor, and practical rural economist, A.E. (George William Russell, 1867-1935).
The speaker will be Declan Foley, Manager of the Australian Yeats Society website, Under Ben Bulben
(
www.benbulben.net/), and (default) Moderator of the Yeats List
(Yeats-Discussion@yahoogroups.com).
Mr Foley's presentation is titled, George William Russell: A.E. and the American Farmer Lecture Tour. Mr Foley will discuss A.E.'s lecture tour among American farmers in 1933, at the invitation of Henry Wallace, FDR's Secretary of Agriculture, as well as other milestones in A.E.'s life. Mr Foley will be introduced by Andy McGowan, President of the WB Yeats Society of New York. For further details, see
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp/courses/Irish_studies.html#2.
