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).

60th Year Celebrations
Poetry Project
60 YEARS – 60 POEMS

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We are delighted to have received project funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

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The Second Coming 2020
A limited edition book to mark the centenary of the publication of WB Yeats’ great poem The “Second Coming”.

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

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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)

Ronald Schuchard

Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies, Emeritus, Emory University, is the author of The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Doireann is a poet and essayist. ‘A Ghost in the Throat’ was awarded Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. She is also author of six critically-acclaimed books of poetry,

Knocknarea Walk

A highlight of the Yeats Summer School, a walk to the top of Knocknarea, to Queen Medb’s Cairn overlooking Strandhill.

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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