Yeats Fans Head for Sligo

The Sligo Park Hotel will welcome Yeats enthusiasts from around Ireland and overseas when it hosts the 30th Yeats Winter School early next year. 

The three-day programme of events celebrating the life and work of poet William Buter Yeats and his brother, the painter Jack Butler Yeats, will take place at the hotel from January 24-26, 2025.

The Yeats Winter School allows visitors the opportunity to learn more about W.B. Yeats and his family by providing a basis for reading, exploring and thinking about Yeats’s poetry in the place where much of it began.

Speakers include: 

• James Pethica, the Director of Yeats Winter School and a teacher of Irish Studies and Modernism at Williams College in Massachusetts, and the author of a number of books on W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.
• Anne Margaret Daniel, a literature and humanities teacher at the New School University in New York City.
• Iggy McGovern, a poet and former lecturer in physics at Trinity College Dublin.

Registration for the event opens at 7pm on Friday, January 24, followed by a welcome address and reading by Iggy McGovern at 8.30pm.

Sligo Park Hotel General Manager Gerard Moore says: “The Sligo Park first hosted this event 30 years ago, and it is heartening to see that it continues to occupy a special place in the Winter School.”