Yeats Society Sligo

The Yeats Exhibition and tour and The Hyde Bridge Gallery are closed in response to current health advice regarding Covid-19 (Coronavirus).

Poem of the Week
WB Yeats Poem of the Week featured on social media available to download

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62nd Yeats International Summer School
The Yeats International Summer School delivered online, offering lectures and seminars on a weekly basis between June and August.

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Four Masterclasses in May
Yeats Unwrapped – Learn. Four masterclasses in writing, poetry, drama and memoir. Limited places. Cost: €30 per class. Payable when you have a confirmed place. Supported by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

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Highlights of the 62nd Yeats International Summer School 2021

Lauren Arrington

Co-Director of The Yeats International Summer School, Lauren is a literary critic and cultural historian. She is author of W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Charles Armstrong

Co-Director of The Yeats International Summer School. He is the author of Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Roy Foster

Roy Foster is the author of the two-volume authorised biography of W.B.Yeats, The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 and The Arch-Poet, 1914-1939. He is also a well known cultural commentator and critic.

Lucy Collins

Lucy is co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive. She is author of Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (2015)

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping
than you can understand.

from The Stolen Child

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