thumb|250px|the dun emer press at work, ca. 1903 the dun emer press (fl. 1902â1908) was an irish private press founded in 1902 by elizabeth yeats and her brother william butler yeats, part of the celtic revival. it was named after the legendary emer and evolved into the cuala press. ==history== in 1902, elizabeth and her sister lily yeats joined evelyn gleeson in establishing a craft studio at dundrum, near dublin, called dun emer. this specialized in printing and other crafts, with elizabeth yeats in charge of the printing press.john sheehy, the rediscovery of ireland's past: the celtic revival 1830â1930 (thames and hudson, 1980), p. 158william m. murphy, dun emer, 1902â1908 while living in london, elizabeth yeats had been part of the circle of william morris, and had been inspired by his printing work. gleeson offered the yeats sisters her large house in dundrum, in which a crafts group providing training and work for young women, in the fields of bookbinding, printing, weaving, and embroidery, could live and work.elizabeth yeatssheila pim, 'dun emer: the origins', in irish arts review (1984-1987), vol. 2, no. 2 (summer, 1985), pp. 18-22 bookbinding workshops were a later addition to the studio.cuala/dun emer press at ubc.ca the dun emer studio and press were named after emer, daughter of forgall monach, wife of the hero cÃºchulainn in the ulster cycle of irish mythology, a figure famous for her artistic skills as well as her beauty. the title-page device of the dun emer press was designed by elinor monsell and shows emer standing underneath a tree. monsell also created the symbol of the abbey theatre, dublin, which depicts maeve with a wolfhound.elizabeth corbet yeats at princeton.edu the focus of the press was on publishing literary work by irish authors,dun emer press at missouri.edu and elizabeth and lily yeats's younger brother, the artist jack butler yeats, did much of the illustration work. in 1904, the dun emer crafts studio was organized into two parts, the dun emer guild under gleeson and dun emer industries under the yeats sisters.sheehy, op. cit., , p. 161paul larmour, 'the dun emer guild', in irish arts review (1984-1987), vol. 1, no. 4 (winter, 1984), pp. 24-28 the dun emer press produced limited editions of books, printed by hand in the manner of william morris's kelmscott press.robin skelton, 'twentieth-century irish literature and the private press traditio
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