cuala press

The Cuala Press was set up in 1904 by William Butler Yeats and his sister Elizabeth. Elizabeth had previously run the Dun Emer Press for two years and had published work by her brother from that imprint. It was intended that the press would produce work by writers associated with the Irish Literary Revival. They ended up publishing over 70 titles in total, including 48 by the William Butler Yeats. The press closed in 1946. Elizabeth Yeats had started her career working with William Morris in London. The Cuala was unusual in that it was the only Arts and Crafts press to be run and staffed by women and the only one that published new work rathen than established classics. In addition to Yeats, Cuala published works by Ezra Pound, Jack B. Yeats, Robin Flower, Elizabeth Bowen, Oliver St John Gogarty, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, Lionel Johnson, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNiece, John Masefield, Frank O'Connor, John Millington Synge, John Butler Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore and others. After Elizabeth Yeats died in 1940, the work of the press was carried on by two of her ling-time assistants, Esther Ryan and Marie Gill. The final Cuala title was Stranger in Aran by Elizabeth Rivers, which was published on July 31, 1946.

References

Lewis, Gifford. The Yeats sisters and the Cuala. (Irish Academic Press, 1994). ISBN 0-7165-2525-9

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