Yeats Society Sligo
Our doors are always open to those who love the arts and who are keen to continue celebrating the Yeats family and those poets, artists and writers who have drawn inspiration from them.
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Highlights from the Yeats International Summer School 2019
Salute to Seamus
A Sligo celebration of Seamus Heaney, great friend of the Yeats Society over many years, hosted by RTE’s Tommie Gorman.
Eiléan Ní Chulleanáin
The Irish poet, academic. and current Ireland Professor of Poetry reading from her great collection of work.
The Yeats Salon
An exchange of ideas and opinions in true Yeatsian style – on the subject of the impact of social media on culture.
Muldoon’s Picnic
A cabaret style poetry music event led by Pultizer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon who was also a lecturer at the Summer School.
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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