MIKE, STEVE & YEATS AT NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND / Æ COLLECTION

MIKE, STEVE AND W.B. YEATS AT NATIONAL LIBRARY, DUBLIN

Mike Scott will give a reading from the poetry of WB Yeats at the National Library of Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin, on Tuesday 30^th June at 7.30pm as part of the Summer's Wreath festival celebrating the 70^th anniversary of Yeats' death. Steve Wickham will be on hand to play fiddle and the two will also give a preview of some of the musical arrangements of Yeats' poems they are busy concocting for a special project that will be announced soon. Tickets are free but limited and must be pre-booked (available now) from: 00353 1 603 0277 or by email from yeats@nli.ie Other events in the festival include readings by Bob Geldof (June 19^th) and Edna O'Brien (June 23^rd). Further information is available at:

http://www.nli.ie/en/list/latest-news.aspx?article=cfb47e64-8b80-4038-b2bf-cd94620b38ea

MIKE'S ONLINE COLLECTION OF Æ'S PAINTINGS

If you haven't yet checked out Mike's online collection of paintings by the Irish mystic and author Æ(George Russell, 1867-1935), then visit: http://twitpic.com/photos/mickpuck

The 40 paintings were assembled with the help of a small group of online Waterboys fans, and is full of beautiful images. For best results view them full size (click icon on the right just above each picture).