Yeats International Summer School
An engaging event that integrates an academic programme of lectures and seminars with poetry, tours, music, readings and cultural events.
Eleanor Lybeck – “Yeats’s Performance Poetry”
Lucy McDiarmid – “The Irish Public Poem: Yeats, Heaney, Meehan, Bryce”
Ron Schuchard – “Early Poems, 1889-1904: The Wanderings of Oisin to In the Seven Woods”
Thursday, 28 July – Opening lecture:
Ron Schuchard – “The Cabalist and the Catholics: Yeats’s Conflicted Spiritual Friendships with Johnson, Dowson, and others of the Tragic Generation.”, 6pm
Friday, 29 July:
Lucy Collins – “W. B. Yeats, his Sisters and their Books”, 9.15am
Charles I. Armstrong – “In the Company of Yeats: The Personality and Impersonality of his Style” 11.15am
Saturday, 30 July:
Poetry Workshop: Moya Cannon, 11am – 4pm
Sunday, 31 July:
Poetry Workshop: Moya Cannon, 11am – 3pm
Poetry Reading: Moya Cannon, 8pm
Monday, 1 August:
Ashim Dutta – “Yeats and Tagore”, 9.15am
Lucy McDiarmid – “Yeatsian Masculinities” 11.15am
Seminar – 2pm – 4.30pm, Summer School Students only
Tuesday, 2 August:
Inés Bigot – “Yeats and Ninette de Valois” 9.15am
Eleanor Lybeck – “The Matter of Imperformance: The Theatre Worlds of Jack B. Yeats”, 11.15am
Seminar – 2pm – 4.30pm, Summer School Students only
Wednesday, 3 August:
Claire Connolly – “Yeats and Keats“, 9.15am
Chris Morash – “…into the places we have left empty…’: Yeats as Theatre-Maker”, 11.15am
Seminar – 2pm – 4.30pm, Summer School Students only
Thursday, 4 August:
Emer Nolan – “Mapping the Revival: WBY, Mary Colum and Irish Literary Criticism” 9.15am
Adrian Paterson – “Social Medium: George Yeats, W.B. Yeats, and the Dead” 11.15am
Seminar – 2pm – 4.30pm, Summer School Students only
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.
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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)
Co-Director of The Yeats International Summer School. He is the author of Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History (Bloomsbury, 2013).
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 is co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive. She is author of Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (2015)
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