A prayer for my daughter
Chosen by:
Michael D Higgins
President of Ireland
When you are old
Chosen by:
Caitríona Yeats
Patron of the Yeats International Summer School
The Ghost of Roger Casement
Chosen by:
Professor Lauren Arrington
Director of the 60th Yeats International Summer School (2019)
Sailing to Byzantium
Chosen by:
Leo Varadkar
An Taoiseach
High Talk
Chosen by:
Professor Matthew Campbell
Director of the 60th Yeats International Summer School (2019)
Cuchulain Comforted
Chosen by:
Marie Heaney
Wife of the late Seamus Heaney
Among School Children
Chosen by:
Professor Helen Vendler
American literary critic
Lapis Lazuli
Chosen by:
Margaret Harper
Director of the Yeats International Summer School
The Indian Upon God
Chosen by:
Paul Muldoon
Irish poet
Sixteen Dead Men
Chosen by:
John Mullaney
Mullaney Brothers, O’Connell Street, Sligo
IV There’ from Supernatural Songs 1934
Chosen by:
Michael Quirke
Woodcarver and Storyteller, Wine Street, Sligo
The Cold Heaven
Chosen by:
Joseph M Hassett
Washington lawyer, author of W.B. Yeats and the Muses, first attended the Yeats Summer School in 1963
Under Ben Bulben
Chosen by:
Eily Kilgannon
Eily Kilgallon School of Speech & Drama
Vacillation
Chosen by:
Gerald Dawe
Author and Poet
Man And The Echo
Chosen by:
Professor Seán Golden
Academic advisor to the board of Yeats Society Sligo
Politics
Chosen by:
Peter Fallon
Poet
Sailing to Byzantium
Chosen by:
Maura McTighe
Former President of Yeats Society Sligo
A Prayer for my Daughter
Chosen by:
Deaglán de Bréadún
Author, journalist and former Yeats Summer School student
The Song of Wandering Aengus
Chosen by:
Una Mannion
Lecturer in Performing Arts and Chair of the new Writing and Literature BA at IT Sligo
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Chosen by:
Eileen Magnier
RTÉ North West Correspondent
The Fiddler of Dooney
Chosen by:
Robert Fitzpatrick & the Fitzpatrick family
In memory of their mother Joan
Adam’s Curse
Chosen by:
Susan O’Keeffe
Yeats Society Sligo Director
Prayer for My Son
Chosen by:
Professor Frank McGuinness
UCD poet and playwright
Broken Dreams
Chosen by:
Rosaleen O’Grady
Mayor Municipal District Sligo
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz
Chosen by:
Marian Richardson
RTÉ Radio Broadcaster
Mohini Chatterjee
Chosen by:
Warwick Gould
Emeritus Professor, University of London
The Wild Swans at Coole
Chosen by:
Martin Enright
Honorary President of Yeats Society Sligo
On a Political Prisoner
Chosen by:
Kevin Connolly
Author ‘Yeats and Sligo’
Author ‘Yeats and Sligo’
Chosen by:
Stella Mew
Yeats scholar and former CEO of Yeats Society Sligo
The Wild Swans at Coole
Chosen by:
Martin Enright
Honorary President of Yeats Society Sligo
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
Chosen by:
Alice Lyons
Poet-in-Residence Yeats Society Sligo
