Irish Society Starts Season

The Irish Cultural Society starts its 2009-2010 season with a literary topic. Kathleen S. Tully will speak on the subject of The Women Who Inspired William Butler Yeats at the September 8 meeting at 8:00 p.m. in the Garden City Library, 60 7th Street, across the street from the Garden City Hotel. The meeting is open to the public and there is no admission fee.

Mrs. Tully will transport the audience into the poetic world created by W. B. Yeats which was inspired by some remarkable women, such as Maude Gonne, Madame Blavatsky, Katherine Tynan, Olivia Shakespeare, Lady Gregory and Constance Gore-Booth among others. Mrs. Tully will explore the relationships Yeats had with the women and the poems they inspired.

Kathleen Tully is an adjunct professor of English at Iona College. She has a BA degree from the College of New Rochelle, and an MA from the University of Pittsburgh and an Advanced Certificate in Education from Pace University. Mrs. Tully has completed her doctoral coursework at NYU. She is currently researching a biography of Lady Gregory. The Society is pleased to bring an experienced and vivacious speaker and the world of a great poet to the stage of the Garden City Library.

Everyone at the meeting will be invited to the rededication ceremony of the Easter Monday Monument behind the Supreme Court in Mineola. The ceremony will be conducted on Sunday, September 17 at 3:00 p.m. at the Monument.

The treasurer of the Society, Joe Ferrick,will happily collect dues payments.