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

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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

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66th Yeats Summer School Lecturers 2025

Lucy Collins (UCD) — Co-director
Robert Doggett (SUNY Geneseo) — Co-director
Eric Falci (University of Califoria, Berkeley)
Fran Brearton (Queen’s University Belfast)

Peter McDonald (Oxford University)
Melinda Szuts (Budapest)
Tara Stubbs (Oxford University)

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

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Lucy Collins Charles I. Armstrong

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.

Yeats International Summer School

July 23 — August 1 2025

66th Yeats International Summer School Programme

66th Yeats Summer School Lecturers 2025

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.

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