Yeats International Summer School
An engaging event that integrates an academic programme of lectures and seminars with poetry readings and cultural events.
Website funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development.
To my father, Sligo was home. Sligo was his initial literary inspiration, and the real importance of the Summer School has been to intermingle its academic activities with the haunting beauty of the Sligo countryside. Only in the ‘Yeats Country’ could such a venture have been considered.
Michael Yeats August 1990
Scholarship applications now open
All scholarship applications to be made to info@yeatssociety.com and must include a statement from the applicant, accompanied by a supporting letter from an appropriate tutor.
- €675 – includes all lectures and all additional events at the School
- €20 deposit – to secure your place (which will be deducted from the total fee. It covers administration and is non-refundable.)
- A small number of scholarships will be available for 2022.
If applying for a scholarship please put:
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION 2022 in the email subject line.
- Full scholarships cover the cost of accommodation, flight and the fee for the School
- Partial scholarships cover the fee for the School
Lecture details:
Thursday, 27 July – Opening lecture:
Ron Schuchard, “The Cabalist and the Catholics: Yeats’s Conflicted Spiritual Friendships with Johnson, Dowson, and others of the Tragic Generation.”
Friday, 28 July:
Lucy Collins – “W. B. Yeats, his Sisters and their Books”
Charles I. Armstrong – “Keats as an Example? W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, and the Sympathetic Imagination”
Monday, 1 August:
Ashim Duttam – “Yeats and Tagore”
Lucy McDiarmid – “Yeatsian Masculinities”
Tuesday, 2 August:
Inés Bigot – “Yeats and Ninette de Valois”
Eleanor Lybeck – “The Matter of Imperformance: The Theatre Worlds of Jack B. Yeats”
Wednesday, 3 August:
Claire Connolly – “Celtic Eyes? Yeats and William Carleton”
Chris Morash – “…into the places we have left empty…’: Yeats as Theatre-Maker”
Thursday, 4 August:
Emer Nolan – “Mapping the Revival: WBY, Mary Colum and Irish Literary Criticism”
Emilie Morin – “Yeats and Beckett”
Friday, 5 August:
Ben Levitas – “Yeats and Lady Gregory”
Joseph Hassett – “Yeats and Joyce: Company and Comfort in the Telepathy of Archives”
We are looking forward very much to a great Yeats International Summer School in 2022.
More details to follow soon.
Stay updated with The School on our Facebook page and here, on our website.
Any queries can be sent to info@yeatssociety.com
We are looking forward very much to a great Yeats International Summer School in 2022.
More details to follow soon.
Stay updated with The School on our Facebook page and here, on our website.
Any queries can be sent to info@yeatssociety.com
Find out more about the Yeats Summer School
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)
Charles Armstrong
Co-Director of The Yeats International Summer School. He is the author of Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History (Bloomsbury, 2013).
Roy Foster
Roy Foster is the author of the two-volume authorised biography of W.B.Yeats, The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 and The Arch-Poet, 1914-1939. He is also a well known cultural commentator and critic.
Lucy Collins
Lucy is co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive. She is author of Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (2015)
Rose of Innisfree
The Rose of Innisfree Tourboat operates on the picturesque Lough Gill. Experience some of the most spectacular scenery, spoken so fondly of by the poet W.B.Yeats