Yeats Society Sligo

Our doors are always open to those who love the arts and who are keen to keep celebrating the Yeats family and those poets, artists and writers who have drawn inspiration from them.

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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Poem of the Week
Poem of the week chosen by Charika Swanepoel as featured on social media.

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Opening of the 62nd Yeats International Summer School
Dr Joseph Hassett will be delivering the opening lecture for the 62nd Yeats International Summer School 2021.
Join us on our Facebook page, Thursday 17th June at 6pm for this free event.

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Yeats Day Festival 2021
Join us in marking the 156th birthday of Nobel poet WB Yeats with a series of events to celebrate Yeats Day.

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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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