Nobel Words
Saturday 7th October @ 1pm
A one-act play by Peggy Monahan
Funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development.
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Purgatory by WB Yeats
Yeats Society Sligo would like to thank the crew and cast of Purgatory for the great performance at the Old Rectory on September 2023.
The Drawing Journal
5th August 1pm – 26th August. The artists are inviting the public to share our responses and interpretations of selected poems by W.B.Yeats.
Sara Berkeley Wins Inaugural Yeats Society Poetry Prize for The Last Cold Day
The winner of the inaugural Poetry Prize was announced at the opening of this year’s Yeats International Summer School on Thursday July 27th July.
Exposure
Saturday 1st July to Saturday 29th July 2023. A photographic exhibition of works by Galway based photographer and film maker David McDonagh.
Centenary of the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Tourism Minister Catherine Martin launched our Events Programme to mark the Centenary of the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to WB Yeats in 1923.
Nina Fern
Artist Nina Fern will be showcasing a selection of her works at a solo show Otherworldly Echoes from June 10th-24th, with an opening event on Saturday 10th from 1pm-3pm.
Contemporaneity and the Elusive
6th – 27th May 2023 Exhibition by Ailbhe Barrett
Yeats Day Festival 2023
9th – 13th June. Yeats Day celebrations this year will mark William Butler Yeats 158th birthday – and the Centenary of his Nobel Prize award, made in 1923.
Yeats Society Poet in Residence
We are delighted that Victoria Kennefick will continue her ‘poet in residence’ with us until April 2024.