Yeats Society Sligo

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“Smiling public man” event in the Seanad Chamber

November 30, 2023

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize award, the current Cathaoirleach, Senator Jerry Buttimer, hosted a special event in the Seanad Chamber in Leinster House.

Celebrating the Centenary of WB Yeats’ Nobel Prize

November 15, 2023

As part of the official Decade of Centenaries, local libraries across Ireland will share the news, and the story.

My Numberless Dreams… My Passionate Rhyme

November 8, 2023

Celebrating the Centenary of WB Yeats’ Nobel Prize, Thursday November 30th to Saturday December 2nd.

Programme of events to mark the Centenary of the Yeats Nobel Prize, 2023

November 7, 2023

To Paradise

A film poem celebrating some of Nobel Poet WB Yeats’ most beautiful poems and their links with Sligo – his spiritual home.

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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