Seminars
The week-long seminars, in groups comprising on average twelve students, meet daily from 4.30 to 6.00 p.m. The basic texts are Collected Poems (Albright or Jeffares) and Collected Plays, and texts for all seminars will be available at Keohane's Bookshop and the Book Nest book shop in Sligo. Students may prepare for the School by reading Yeats's Autobiographies; Roy Foster or Terence Brown's biographies of Yeats; a critical text such as Richard Ellmann's Yeats: The Man and the Masks, and a history of modern Ireland. The tutors are available for consultation on theses and other research projects. The lectures, seminars and special educational events total more than forty-five hours of work, the equivalent of most unit or three-credit courses. By arrangement with the Director and with the prior approval of the student's home institution, provision may be made for academic credit through additional seminar exercises, consultations and an essay.
WEEK ONE SEMINARS, 30th July - 3rd August
Anne Margaret Daniel: Yeats in Sligo
Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey: The Wind Among the Reeds
Bernard O’Donoghue: The Wild Swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Rajeev Patke: Yeats Among the Poets: From Eliot to Muldoon
James Pethica: Yeats in transition: In the Seven Woods to Responsibilities
Ronald Schuchard: Early Poems
WEEK TWO SEMINARS, 6th-10th August
Hugh Haughton: The Tower
Kevin Barry: Late Yeats
Maureen Murphy: Yeats and Folklore
Terence Brown: Yeats as Public Poet
Paige Reynolds: Yeats, Gregory, Synge and the Early Abbey Theatre
Catherine Paul: Yeats and the Occult
Wayne Chapman: Yeats and the Material Text
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