Lectures

Each weekday morning there are lectures at 9.30 a.m. and 11.15 a.m. in the Hawk's Well Theatre, with coffee and tea available between the lectures. These lectures /seminars focus on specific periods of Yeats's poetry and are designed to cover the whole canon during the two weeks. They also explore the designated themes and grow out of the current research of the lecturers. Afternoons are free, until seminar time, for impromptu discussion sessions, for study in the Yeats Society Library, or for exploring Sligo and the surrounding landscape, from Knocknarea and Strandhill to Rosses Point.

  1. WEEK ONE LECTURES

    Monday 30th July
    James Pethica, Williams College:  Yeats and the loss of Coole
    Anne Margaret Daniel, The New School University:  Sligo Homecomings

    Tuesday 31st July
    Ronald Schuchard, Emory University:  The Wanderings of Yeats and Oisin
    Warwick Gould, University of London:  Yeats and the Sacred Book

    Wednesday 1st August
    Joe Lee, New York University:  Yeats and History
    Keith Schuchard:  Swedenborg, Yeats, and Jacobite Freemasonry

    Thursday 2nd August
    Masami Nakao, Tokyo University:  The Wild Swans at Coole
    Deirdre Toomey: Yeats in the National Gallery


    Friday 3rd August
    Bernard O’Donoghue, Oxford University:  “Passionate Syntax and Correctness Again”
    Rajeev Patke, National University of Singapore: Yeats's shaping of The Tower and The Winding Stair

  2. WEEK TWO LECTURES

    Monday 6th August
    Clare Hutton, Loughborough University: Reading In the Seven Woods: Beyond Parody and Paratext
    Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Université de Paris: W. B. Yeats's Song About the Irish Language

    Tuesday 7th August
    Edna Longley, Queen’s University Belfast:  Yeats as Critic
    Terence Brown, Trinity College, Dublin:  Heaney's Yeats

    Wednesday 8th August
    Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University: Yeats, Patrick McDonough and Sligo Emigrants
    Catherine Paul, Clemson University:  Listening to the Dead

    Thursday 9th August
    Wayne Chapman, Clemson University:  “Something Intended, Complete":
    Major Work on Yeats Past, Present and yet to Come
    Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross: The Matter of Yeats: Material Culture and the Abbey Theatre

    Friday 10th August
    Kevin Barry, NUI Galway:  ‘The throats of birds”: Yeats and the act of dying
    Hugh Haughton, University of York: Commemoration and critique: Auden's 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats'

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