FAMOUS FRIENDS OF YEATS INTERNATIONAL SUMMER
SCHOOL
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| Grainne
Yeats; Michael Yeats and Professor Ron Schuchard Director,
YISS 1995-1997. |
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| Michael
Yeats |
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| Professor
Brendan Kennelly & Student, 1967. |
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| John
Montague, Peit; Brian Friel, Playwright; Prof. Helen Vendler,
Harvard University; Peter Fallon, Poet. |
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| Frank
Wynne, 1st President, YISS; Professor Henn, guiding light
of the first YIS Schools; Jim Gannon, Mayor of Sligo 1962;
Dr. Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland. |
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| Frank
O'Connor & Friend, 1965. |
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| Seamus
Heaney, Nobel Laureat 1995, Frequent visitor and valued
friend of YISS. |
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Professor
Gus Martin (1935-1981)
Director YISS 1979-1981 |
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| Francis
Stuart, the fiery young Irish writer who married Iseult
Gonne in 1920. |
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| John
McGahern, writer, opened YISS 1995. |
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| Mary
Robinson, President of Ireland, 1990-1997. A former student
of YISS, who opened the school in 1992. |
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