NEWS & EVENTS ARCHIVE
Sligo & the Big Apple
 Glucksman Ireland House (New York University): 1 Washington Mews, Fifth Avenue, one block north of Washington Square Arch
A Taste of the Yeats Summer School in New York, 25 April 2009 (Details)
For those of you who will be in ‘The Big Apple’ in April, here is an opportunity
to sample the Yeats Summer School for a day in New York City. Along with a full
day of lectures and a dramatic presentation – The Great Yeats, by
Sam & Joan McCready - we will have information on the 50th Yeats Summer School,
Sligo (25 July-9 August, 2009). Chaired by Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University),
speakers will include Michael Wood(Princeton), Ronald Schuchard (Emory
University), John Kelly (Oxford), and Jonathan Allison (Kentucky).
AWA Creative Writing Group with Monica Corish
2nd February - 30th March 2009
Yeats Memorial Building - Monday 7pm - 9.30pm
Monica Corish
Monica Corish's memoir writing has featured on RTE's Sunday Miscellany and on Lyric FM's
Quiet Quarter. She will be the Featured Poet in the February 2009 edition of the
The Stinging Fly,and has been awarded a Leitrim Arts Office 2009 writing bursary. She has an MA in Development Studies and broad experience as an adult educator in Ireland and in Africa. She began facilitating creative writing workshops 10 years ago, is trained as an
AWA Writing Group Leader and currently offers writing workshops in Sligo, Manorhamilton, Ballyshannon, Letterkenny and Dublin.
The Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) method, p (AWA) method, pioneered by Pat Schneider nearly 30 years ago, has been used successfully with experienced writers as well as beginners, writers whose creative juices are flowing as well as those experiencing a block. In AWA workshops we write in response to prompts; read our writing to each other when we choose; respond only with what we remember and like; treat all work as fiction; respect the confidentiality of what is written; and critique revised manuscripts if desired, balancing praise with suggestions for change. The workshop leader guides the group to stay within these guidelines, freeing each participant to find and develop his or her own unique voice.
70th Anniversary of the death of W. B. Yeats, 28 January 2009
Seamus Heaney launches “The Yeats Trail” in Sligo
W.B. Yeats, the Nobel Laureate who is forever associated with Sligo died on 28th January 1939. Ill health had caused him to winter abroad in a warmer climate, but he made it clear that he wanted to be buried back in Sligo 'under bare Ben Bulben's head' beside Drumcliffe Church, where his great-grandfather had been Rector (1811-1846). War intervened and it was not until 1948 that the poet returned to Sligo for burial in Drumcliffe as he had wished.
This January exactly seventy years later, the Yeats Society marked the event on Wednesday 28th January, with a short memorial service in St. John's Cathedral, Sligo, at 3pm during which the Yeats, Pollexfen and Middleton families were remembered, as was their link, not only with W.B.Yeats, but also with St. John's Church, as they knew it, and with Sligo.
This event was followed by the launch of "The Yeats Trail" at 4.00pm in Sligo City Hall, when another Nobel Laureate, the renowned poet Seamus Heaney, spoke and introduced the newly-updated leaflet covering the locations in counties Sligo and Galway most associated with W. B. Yeats.
In the evening oIn the evening of Wednesday 28th, Seamus Heaney was again invited to preside at a special dinner at Cromleach Lodge and to give readings of Yeats's poetry.
For information on any such upcoming events contact us at the Yeats Society, Hyde Bridge,Sligo / Tel. 071 91 42693 / Email:
info@sligo-yeats.com
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