Stella G. Mew

Stella G. Mew (1942–2022) was an Irish educator, headmistress, and CEO of the Yeats Society.

Stella Mew was the daughter of Ronald George Gillman Mew (1905–1996), an army officer, and Maureen Carmine Palmer (1903–1978), and with her brother Clive Ernest (1936–2013) she grew up at Shirley, Chapelizod, near the Phoenix Park in Dublin.

[2] The following year Mew became Principal of the newly-formed Rathdown School.

[3] After retirement she worked with Taylor University, Indiana, on the development of an Irish literature strand within an Anglo-Irish Studies programme.

She spoke about her early love of Yeats, her discovery of his writing, her regular attendance at lectures given by Yeats scholar and Yeats Society Director Dr TR Henn at Trinity, and her first visit to the summer school, in an episode of the RTE Radio 1 show 'Sunday Miscellany' in 2021.