Celebrating the Centenary of WB Yeats’ Nobel Prize
POETRY THEN, NOW & IN THE FUTURE
Thursday November 30th to Saturday December 2nd
Yeats Society Sligo is delighted to host My Numberless Dreams… My Passionate Rhyme, a three-day poetry event taking place in Sligo between November 30th and December 2nd.
The event is part of a wider programme, designed by Yeats Society Sligo, in partnership with other organisations and institutions to mark the Centenary of the award to WB Yeats of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
This programme, honouring the poet, is the closing event of the Official Decade of Centenaries, funded and organised by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht and Media, on behalf of the Government of Ireland.
Numberless Dreams…..Passionate Rhyme concentrates on Poetry in Ireland, Then, Now and in the Future. The event includes readings from Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, music with No Crows, talks by Theo Dorgan, Dan Mulhall and a panel discussion on poetry hosted by distinguished contemporary poets and chaired by Jessica Traynor. Members of the public will gather to read 100 of Yeats poems.
Tickets for all events are available now on eventbrite
Tickets can be purchased for individual events or for the full event.
Ticket to all events on Th, Fr and Sat: €50
Ticket to all Saturday events: €30
Thursday 30th November:
ATU Open mic – emerging poets, with award-winning writer Niamh McCabe
Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm,
Tickets: Free event
Location: Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo F91 HY48
Poet Theo Dorgan presents a talk about Seamus Heaney. Music with Frank Gallagher and Steve Wickham. Poetry read by Cathy Belton. In conjunction with Seamus Heaney HomePlace.
Time: 8pm
Tickets: €12
Location: Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo F91 HY48
Friday 1st December:
Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paul Muldoon delivers the keynote lecture Counted One: Yeats By the Numbers.
Introduced by poet Jessica Traynor.
Time: 8pm,
Tickets: €12
Location: Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo F91 HY48
Saturday 2nd December:
Former Ambassador Dan Mulhall presents his talk: Smiling public man’: Yeats and the Irish Free State, 1922-1939.
Time: 12 noon,
Tickets: €10
Location: Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo F91 HY48
One for Every Year: 100 Poems. Readings of 100 poems, spanning the poet’s work.
Time: From 2pm
Tickets: Free event
Location: Outside (or inside) Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge, Sligo F91DVY4
The Future of Irish Poetry with poets: Jessica Traynor, Stephen Sexton, John McAuliffe
Time: 6pm
Tickets: €12
Location: Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo F91 HY48
Poetry readings with: Paul Muldoon & Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Presented by: John Kelly
Music: No Crows
Time: 8pm,
Tickets: €15
Location: Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo F91 HY48
