Yeats International Summer School

An engaging event that integrates an academic programme of lectures and seminars with poetry, tours, music, readings and cultural events.

July 23 — August 1 2025

66th Yeats International Summer School Programme

‘YEATS’ OTHER WORLDS’

The 66th Yeats International Summer School will take place in Sligo on July 23 — August 1 2025.

  • BOAT TRIP TO LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
  • YEATS TOWN TOUR IN SLIGO
  • POETRY WORKSHOP WITH VONA GROARKE
  • WATERCOLOUR CLASS
  • YEATS AND MAGIC
  • VIDEO WORKSHOP

The 65th Yeats International Summer School takes place

66th Yeats Summer School Lecturers 2025

  • Dr Lucy Collins (UCD) — Co-director
  • Dr Robert Doggett (SUNY Geneseo) — Co-director
  • Eric Falci (University of Califoria, Berkeley)
  • Peter D. McDonald (Oxford University)
  • Melinda Szuts (Budapest)
  • Tara Stubbs (Oxford University)

Lucy Collins is Associate Professor of Modern Poetry in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film. Educated at Trinity College Dublin and at Harvard University. She has a particular interest in work by women: her critical anthology, Poetry by Women in Ireland 1870–1970 (Liverpool UP, 2012) was followed by a monograph, Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (2015).

Professor of English Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, at the University of Agder, Norway. Main research areas are the writings of W. B. Yeats, contemporary poetry, Romanticism, Memory Studies, and literary theory.