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2010 SEMINARS


 

WEEK ONE (Monday-Friday) 4:30-6:00pm

1. Marc Conner: Yeats: Crossways  to The Wind Among the Reeds

2. Anne Fogarty: Yeats and Feminism

3.John Goodby: Yeats's Modernism 

4. David Holdeman: Yeats and the Material Text

5. Geraldine Higgins: Yeats and Politics

6. Ronan McDonald: Yeats Synge and  O'Casey

7. James Pethica: Yeats, Ireland and Nationality 

 

 

WEEK TWO (Monday-Friday) 4:30-6:00pm

 

1. Anne Margaret Daniel: Yeats and Sligo

2. Rob Doggett: Yeats's middle period Responsabilities to Michael Robartes

3. Nicky Grene:Yeats in transition: In the Seven Woods to The Wild Swans at Coole

4. Youngmin Kim: Yeats, Travelling Poetry and Travelling Theory

5. Stephen Regan:Last Poems

6. Tony Roche: Yeats and Beckett

 



Summer School staff with Michael and Grainne Yeats
(L to R) Michael Keohane, Charles Altieri, Grainne Yeats, Terence Brown, Stella Mew, Meg Harper, Helen Vendler, Patrick Crotty, Charles Armstrong, Michael Yeats, Jonathan Allison, Matt Campbell, Seamus Heaney, Aleck Crichton