Every year, the Summer School arranges readings by renowned Irish authors and various musical and dramatic presentations, including a performance of a Yeats play by the Summer School Drama Workshop. This year the Summer School Programme includes the following:

Lunch-hour events

Monday 26th July   

Late Registration / Posting of seminar groups and rooms

Tuesday 27th July  

Imogen Stuart speaks about her work as a sculptor, and on Iseult and Maud Gonne

Wednesday 28th July

Outing departs at 1.00 pm

Thursday 29th July

Julia Kennedy reads from the unpublished 1884 memoir of her great-great grandmother, Lady Gregory.

Friday 30th July 

Iggy McGovern, poetry reading

Saturday 31st July

Trip to Thoor Ballylee and Coole Park.  Poetry Workshop.

Sunday 1st August

Lough Gill boat trip. Poetry Workshop

Monday 2nd August 

The Aran Islands, a dramatic reading by Tegolin Knowland and Sean Coyne

Tuesday 3rd August

Walking tour of Yeats's Sligo, led by Joyce Enright

Wednesday 4th August

Jack B.Yeats: The Outsider at The Model

Thursday 5th August 

Sligo poets Reading

Friday 6th August 

The Gallery Press: a 40th Birthday Celebration.

Evening Events

Sunday 25th July 

Opening of the 51st Yeats  International Summer School

Monday 26th July

To Be Advised

Tuesday 27th July 

Joan McBreen and John Goodby, poetry reading

Wednesday 28th July

''Yeats to Music, Poetry to Song'': An Evening with Mike Scott

Thursday 29th July

John McAuliffe, poetry reading

Irish Dancing

Friday 30th July

Nick Laird,  poetry reading

Saturday 31st July

Janes Morrison Traditional Music Festival , Riverstown, Co. Sligo.

Coach leaves at 8.00 p.m.

Sunday 1st August

Kerry Hardie, poetry reading

Monday 2nd August 

Eamon Grennan, poetry reading

Tuesday  3rd August

Premier of the play Heads or Harps by Yeats and Lady Gregory

Wednesday 4th August

Students' Poetry Reading

Thursday 5th August

Sligo Tourist Development Association Reception.

Colm Toibin, reading

Friday 6th August

Drama Workshop Play

Farewell Party, The Glasshouse

A Special highlight of the above programme will be the

performance of Mike Scott on Wednesday 28th July

Ever since his band the Waterboys released "The Stolen Child" on their classic 1988 album "Fisherman's Blues", Mike Scott has read, recorded, and revitalized Yeats for wide audiences. Find out about the inspiration for, and development of, The Waterboys' new project "An Appointment With Mr. Yeats", which culminated in 5 sold-out nights at the Abbey Theatre in March 2010. Listen as Scott speaks on the history of Yeats set to pop, rock and folk music, with examples from other artists, and describes his own work setting Yeats's words to melody. A guitar and piano will be on hand for Mike to perform some excerpts.