Yeats Winter School

28th Yeats Winter School

27th to 29th January 2023

Yeats Winter School is a 2 day event held annually at the end of January at the Sligo Park Hotel.

Download the Yeats Winter School 2023 brochure.

The Yeats Winter School is designed as an interlude, which allows the visitor the opportunity to learn more about W.B.Yeats and his family, against the backdrop of the places – from Benbulben to Knocknarea – which inspired them. The aim of the weekend is to provide a basis for reading, exploring and thinking about Yeats’s poetry and his brother’s work, in the place where much of it began.

The event is hosted by Sligo Park Hotel in association with Yeats Society Sligo.

Sligo Park Hotel is set on lush landscaped quiet parkland and surrounded by some of the most scenic countryside in Ireland. The weekend tariff includes full use of the Leisure Club.

Director JAMES PETHICA

James Pethica teaches Irish Studies and Modernism at Williams College in Massachusetts. A former Director of the Yeats International Summer School (2010-12), he is at work on the authorised biography of Lady Gregory for Oxford University Press. His publications include Last Poems: Manuscript Materials by W.B.Yeats (Cornell, 1997), Yeats: a Norton Critical Edition {2000), and most recently, Lady Gregory’s Early Irish Writings, 1883-1893 (2018). With Colm Tóibín, he curated the New York Public Library exhibition All This Mine Alone: Lady Gregory and the Irish Revival, which opened in March 2020.

Guest Writer MOYA CANNON

Moya Cannon was born and grew up in Co. Donegal, spent most of her adult life in Galway and now lives in Dublin. Her Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2021) brings together poems from six previous books, Oar (1990), The Parchment Boat (1997), Carrying the Songs (1907), Hands (2011), Keats Lives (2015) and Donegal Tarantella (2019), more than three decades’ work, a poetry of individual poems which compose a memorable, unpredictable sequence of discovery.

In her poems, history, archaeology, pre-historic art, geology and music figure as gateways to deeper understanding of our mysterious relationship with the natural world and with our past. She has been a recipient of the Brendan Behan Award and the O’Shaughnessy Award and was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Villanova. She is a member of Aosdána.

Guest Lecturer ANNE MARGARET DANIEL

Anne Margaret Daniel teaches literature and humanities at the New School University in New
York City. She has written on topics from Oscar Wilde’s trials to F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Bob Dylan and contemporary music. Her edition of Olivia Shakespear’s fin-de-siecle novella Beauty’s Hour was published by Valancourt in 2015, and her edition of Fitzgerald’s last complete short stories, I’d Die for You And Other Lost Stories, by Scribner I Simon & Schuster in 2017. In 2008, and from 2010-2012, she was Associate Director of the Yeats International Summer School, which she first attended as a student in 1993.