Yeats International Summer School

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

Yeats International Summer School 2020

With heavy hearts, we at Yeats Society Sligo have decided to cancel the 61st Yeats International Summer School, due to commence on July 30th 2020.

Putting public safety first is the priority and the board of the Society, along with the committee of the Summer School, have agreed, after careful consideration, that this is the best action. We commit to refunding those who have paid fees or deposits and we look forward to 2021 and to delivering a great school, led by our esteemed academic directors Professor Lauren Arrington and Professor Charles I Armstrong.

A preview of our 62nd Yeats International Summer School programme can be downloaded here 62nd yeats summer school

We look forward to your support in the future and hope you all keep well and safe.

Any queries can be sent to info@yeatssociety.com

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

Find out more about the Yeats Summer School

Lecturers and Readers

Programme

Seminars

Fees and Registration

Scholarships

Getting Here and Accommodation

Charles Armstrong

Co-Director of The Yeats International Summer School. He is the author of Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Ronald Schuchard

Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies, Emeritus, Emory University, is the author of The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts.

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)

Knocknarea Walk

A highlight of the Yeats Summer School, a walk to the top of Knocknarea, to Queen Medb’s Cairn overlooking Strandhill.

Yeats International Summer School