In the US, Boston College University Libraries also holds an archive of materials relating to the Cuala Press. We also have the printing press itself, metal type and printer’s blocks.Ī general descriptive listing of the archive is available in the Early Printed Books Reading Room at OL P 016.0941 CUA. The archive, though fragmentary, contains useful material such as minute books of directors’ meetings, cash books, letters, business papers, some original drawings for prints and sample books. and George Yeats’ children, Michael and Anne, who later presented the archive to Trinity. From 1969 the Cuala Press began printing books again, under the direction of W.B.
Yeats and Lionel Johnson, and ending with Elizabeth Rivers’ ‘Stranger in Aran’. Seventy seven books were published by the Cuala Press between 19, starting with ‘Poetry and Ireland’ by W.B.
The press stopped printing books in 1946, but continued to create cards and prints. Elizabeth Yeats ran the press until her death in 1940, whereupon William Butler Yeats’ wife George took over along with Mollie Gill and another assistant. The name of the press was accordingly changed from the Dun Emer Press to the Cuala Press. In 1908, following a split with Evelyn Gleeson, the Yeats sisters left Dun Emer Industries and continued their work as Cuala Industries. Elizabeth Yeats was in charge of the press, while Lily Yeats organised the embroidery workshop.
The press grew out of Dun Emer Industries, founded by Elizabeth and Lily Yeats and Evelyn Gleeson in Dundrum in 1902 with the aim of employing Irish women in the making of beautiful things, and contributing to the training and education of working class girls. The Cuala Press, initially operating as the Dun Emer Press, was run by Elizabeth Yeats from 1902 until her death in 1940. The Cuala Press Archive was presented to Trinity College Library by Michael and Anne Yeats in 1986. Catalogue of the Cuala Press, November 1908.
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