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).
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)
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 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,
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