SLIGO, IRELAND - 28th JULY - 9th AUGUST 2013

A two-week academic summer School with lectures, seminars, Poetry Workshop, Drama Workshop, visits to the Yeats Country, Music and Drama, with a focus

on the poetry, plays and prose of W.B. Yeats.

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Sponsors

For further information contact Gary or Ian @

00 353 71 9142693 yeatssummerschool@gmail.com www.yeatssummerschool.com

Fees and Scholarships All payments to be made in euro, either by cheque, credit card, credit transfer or PayPal.

Full summer school fee: €650 Fee for one week: €400

Bookings for two weeks will be accepted initially, and if vacancies remain, bookings for one week (either 1st or 2nd week) will be accepted. Applicants should apply early to establish precedence on the student list or waiting list. Discounts are available for groups and for returning students.

Scholarships Contact us at:Please apply directly to the Yeats Society for details of scholarships. Closing date for applications 1st May, 2013.

Additional Fee for Poetry Workshop

Additional Sponsors

An additional fee of €100 must be paid in advance by students who wish to take the poetry workshop. The number taking part in the poetry workshop is limited. Early application is therefore advised.

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Please list 1st and 2nd choice of Seminars for each week:

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Or choose drama workshop for each week : Yes No

Will you participate in the optional poetry workshop? (€100.00 extra) Yes No

Please complete this form (using BLOCK CAPITALS) and return it to: Summer School Applications,

Yeats Society, Yeats Memorial Building, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo

with a deposit of €100.00 or payment in full.

Application Form

Week Two Alex Davis

Jahan Ramazani Helen Vendler Susan Wolfson

Warwick Gould

Week One George Bornstein

Joseph Valente Helen Vendler

Madeline Callahan Youngmin Kim

Alexandra Poulain

Seminar Leaders

The Yeats Society, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo.

Tel: +353-71-9142693

Website: www.yeats-sligo.com

Email: info@yeats-sligo.com

Fax: +353-71-9142780

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Maureen N. McLaneAssociate Professor of English at New York University,

Poet

Paula MeehanPoet and playwright

Emilie MorinLecturer in the Department of English and Related

Literature at the University of York

Eiléan Ní ChuilleanáinPoet, Associate Professor

of English at Trinity College Dublin

Senator Susan O’KeeffeJournalist and member of Seanad Éireann

Alexandra PoulainProfessor of Irish literature and drama at Université de

Lille 3 (France)

Jahan RamazaniEdgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of

Virginia

Hedwig SchwallAssociate Professor of English at KU Leuven and also

Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

Megan SextonPoet and editor at Georgia State University

Deirdre ToomeyEditor of Yeats and Women (1997) and co-editor of The

Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, vol. 2, and Mythologies (2005)

Joseph ValenteProfessor of English at the University of Buffalo

Helen VendlerA. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard

University

Tom WalkerUssher Lecturer in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin

Susan WolfsonProfessor of English at Princeton University

Padraig YeatesJournalist and author

Lecturers and Writers

Tread Softly

Summer School Discounts

Professor Margaret Mills Harper, DirectorGlucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English

at the University of Limerick. Her research interests include Irish literature in English, literary modernisms,

and contemporary poetry. Recent works include Wisdom of Two, on the occult collaboration between W. B. Yeats and his wife George Hyde Lees, and a scholarly edition of A

Vision (1926) (co-edited with Catherine Paul).

Professor Matthew Campbell, Associate DirectorProfessor of English at the University of York. Campbell’s

editorship of The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (2003) reflects his research interest in British

and Irish poetry of the last two centuries. He has also published regularly on contemporary Irish poetry, as well as on Romantic poetry, Celticism, elegy, and war writing.

John BanvilleNovelist (also Benjamin Black),playwright and

Screenwriter

George BornsteinProfessor Emeritus at the Department of English,

Language and Literature at the University of Michigan

Madeleine CallaghanLecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of

Sheffield

Alex DavisProfessor of English at University College Cork

Warwick GouldDirector of the Institute of English Studies at the

University of London

Seamus HeaneyPoet

Mark Patrick HedermanAbbot of Glenstal Abbey in Co. Limerick

Geraldine HigginsAssociate Professor and Director of Irish Studies at

Emory University

Daily Programme

• 9.30: Lecture One - Hawks Well Theatre• 11.15: Lecture two - Hawks Well Theatre• 1.15 pm: Lunchtime events• 4.30 pm: Seminars - Yeats Memorial Building• 8.00 pm: Evening events

Welcome

The Yeats Society of Ireland, Sligo, welcomes all to the 54th Annual Yeats International Summer School, the Gathering, 28th July–9th August 2013.

Professor Margaret Mills Harper (University ofLimerick), and Professor Matthew Campbell (University of York) are the Director & AssociateDirector.

Sam McCready will lead the drama workshop, and Paula Meehan will conduct the poetry workshop. Special events will include readings by John Banville, Seamus Heaney and Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin, a themed day on 1913 and Labour History, and a workshop on Yeats’s A Vision.

One hundred years ago, Yeats lamented that ‘Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone’ in his great poem ‘September 1913’. In the midst of labour agitation and a controversy over whether paintings and a gallery mattered, Ireland’s preeminent poet staked his claim. Those who build a country build it as if they are maddeningly in love, not distracted by greed or fear. One hundred years later, Yeats’s claim is still relevant.

Patrons

Tread softly is a festival celebrating Sligo and the Yeats family, running alongside and in cooperation with the Yeats International Summer School. It brings to life the story of Sligo’s greatest family with 19 days of Music, Exhibitions, Readings, Theatre, Tours and Film. Tread Softly complements the Yeats International Summer School in offering visitors an enjoyable and inspiring Sligo experience.

Discounts are available for bookings placed before Friday 3rd May as well as for returning students and groups.

Gráinne YeatsWife of the late Michael Butler Yeats, son of W. B. and George Yeats

Caitríona YeatsDaughter of Michael and Gráinne Yeats

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