Exhibition Opening: Jack B Yeats; The Sligo Paintings
When : Friday 24th July, 5pm : Open everyday until Aug 15th. 10am - 5.30pm.
Where : Sligo Art Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building.
Admission : Free
Presented by The Model
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“Sligo was my school, and the sky above it”
Jack Yeats is widely considered one of Ireland’s most important twentieth century painters. Reared in Sligo by his maternal grandparents, the young Yeats spent much of his time travelling about the town and county with his grandfather who owned a shipping business. The landscape and the characters he encountered during this time made a deep and lasting impression on the young artist, and he returned to the memories of his Sligo days for inspiration for his work again and again through out his life. In his later years Yeats acknowledged the deep influence of Sligo on his work in the words “Sligo was my school, and the sky above it”
This exhibition celebrates the influence of Sligo on Yeats’ work and brings together many of his finest paintings from the Niland Collection. The exhibition is presented by The Model with support from Sligo Art Gallery and will continue until 15th August.
A major Jack B Yeats retrospective will open at The Model in June 2010

Ongoing events :
Jack B. Yeats ; The Sligo Paintings at The Sligo Art Gallery. 10am - 5.30pm > More info

Yeats by the Sea; Kids Workshop
When : 12 - 1.30pm
Where : Yeats Memorial Building. Admission : Free.
Presented by The Model
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This summer we will take you on an exciting and eye-opening journey through the paintings and drawings of Jack B Yeats. Over three art workshops you will learn how to look at the work of Jack B Yeats, hear how he spent his day and understand how much Sligo meant to him. We will open up his work to you in a completely different way.

Ongoing events :
Jack B. Yeats ; The Sligo Paintings at The Sligo Art Gallery. 10am - 5.30pm > More info

Official Opening of the 50th Yeats International Summer School
When : Sunday 26th July, 2.30pm
Where : Hawk’s Well Theatre. Admission : Free
Presented by The Yeats Society
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The Yeats Society is delighted that Helen Vendler will open the 50th Anniversary Summer School in Sligo in 2009. A former President of the Modern Language Association, Helen
is currently Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. She has been the recipient of many honorary degrees and has won many prestigious book awards, including the James Russell Lowell Prize and the NationalBook Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Ongoing events :
Jack B. Yeats ; The Sligo Paintings at The Sligo Art Gallery. 10am - 5.30pm > More info

Yeats Summer School Lectures :
Jonathan Allison & Maureen Murphy
When : Monday 27th July, 9.30am & 11.15am
Where : Hawk’s Well Theatre. Admission : €5
Presented by The Yeats Society
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9.30am ‘The Old Moon - Phaser’: Yeats, Auden and MacNeice
Jonathan Allison (University of Kentucky)
11.15am Lily and Lolly Yeats: the American Dimension
Maureen Murphy (Hofstra University)

Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain
When : Monday 27th July - Sat 1st August, 1.05pm (50 mins)
Where : Hawk’s Well Theatre. Admission : €14 (includes a light lunch)
Presented by The Yeats Society
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Actor Neil O’Shea serves up this warm and witty feast of some
of the greatest writers Ireland has produced. The emphasis is on
laughter, with great readings from W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde’s,
Jonathan Swift and George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce and
Christy Brown.

Poetry Reading: Greg Delanty
When : Monday 27th July, 1.10pm
Where : Yeats Memorial Building. Admission : €5
Presented by The Yeats Society
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Greg Delanty was born in Cork in 1958. He currently teaches at St. Michael’s College, Vermont and for three months of each year he returns to his home in Derrynane, Co. Kerry. He has received numerous awards for poetry, including a Guggenheim Prize for poetry, the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Allan Dowling Fellowship and the Austin Clarke Centenary Award. His Collected Poems 1986-2006 was published by Carcanet. He is politically active and ran for the Vermont Green Party in the US elections.

Poetry Reading: Seamus Heaney
When : Monday 27th July, 8.30pm
Where : Hawk’s Well Theatre. Admission : €18 / €15 conc
Presented by The Yeats Society
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Described by Robert Lowell as “the most important Irish poet since Yeats”, Seamus Heaney makes a welcome return to Sligo for the 50th Yeats Summer School. Like Yeats, Shaw and Beckett before him, the Derry-born poet has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the judges praising his “works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”.
His 11th collection of poems, District and Circle, won the TS Eliot prize in 2006, and he is also the recipient several literature prizes including the Whitbread book of the year (twice) and the David Cohen award. In 2008 Faber published
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heany” by Denis O’Driscoll

Ongoing events :
Jack B. Yeats ; The Sligo Paintings at The Sligo Art Gallery. 10am - 5.30pm > More info
Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain, Hawks Well Theatre. 1.05pm > More info

Yeats Summer School Lectures :
Denis Donoghue & Helen Vendler
When : Tuesday 28th July, 9.30am & 11.15am
Where : Hawk’s Well Theatre. Admission : €5
Presented by The Yeats Society
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9.30am Three Presences: Yeats, Eliot and Pound
Denis Donoghue (New York University)
11.15am Vacillation’: the Yeatsian Contraries
Helen Vendler (Harvard University)

Reading: Gerald Dawe & Bernard O’Donoghue
When : Tuesday 28th July, 8.30pm
Where : Methodist Church, Wine Street. Admission : €10 / €8
Presented by The Yeats Society
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Gerald Dawe is Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published several collections of poetry, most recently Points West (2008), and
essays and edited several poetry anthologies, including Earth Voices Whispering: Irish War Poetry 1914-1918 (2008). Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co. Cork in 1945. A
former Director of the Yeats Summer School, he has published four collections of poetry including Gunpowder which was the winner of the 1995 Whitbread Award for Poetry.

Ongoing events :
Jack B. Yeats ; The Sligo Paintings at The Sligo Art Gallery. 10am - 5.30pm > More info
Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain, Hawks Well Theatre. 1.05pm > More info

Yeats Summer School Lectures :
Ronald Schuchard, Bernard O ‘Donoghue & Colbert Kearney
When : Wednesday 29th July, 9.30am & 11.15am
Where : Hawk’s Well Theatre. Admission : €5
Presented by The Yeats Society
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9.30am Yeats’s Early Vision: Lost and Regained, 1903 - 1917
Ronald Schuchard (Emory University)
11.15am Yeats, Edward Walsh and the Gathering of folklore, Bernard O ‘Donoghue
(Wadham College Oxford). Yeats and O’Casey in the Abbey Theatre, Colbert Kearney
(University College Cork)

Eavan Boland & Claire Roche
When : Wednesday 29th July, 8.30pm
Where : Methodist Church. Admission : €10 / €8
Presented by The Yeats Society
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Eavan Boland is a Professor of English at Stanford University where she directs the creative writing program. Having published her first collection of poetry in 1980 with In Her Own Image her most recent collections include New Collected Poems (2008), and Domestic Violence, (2007).She is a member of Aosdana.
Claire Roche is a singer & harpist based in Co. Dublin. She has opened for The Chieftains and The Fureys, and has recorded several CDs, including Dancing In The Wind: poetry of W.B. Yeats set to music. Claire is known for her intimate and moving performances.

Ongoing events :
Jack B. Yeats ; The Sligo Paintings at The Sligo Art Gallery. 10am - 5.30pm > More info
Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain, Hawks Well Theatre. 1.05pm > More info

Yeats Summer School Lectures :
Roy Foster & John Kelly
When : Thursday 30th July, 9.30am & 11.15am
Where : Hawk’s Well Theatre. Admission : €5
Presented by The Yeats Society
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9.30am : Oisin Comes Home: the young Yeats and Irish literary tradition in the nineteenth century, Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford)
11.15am : Inheriting a philosophy of life: W.B. Yeats Debt to his father.
John Kelly (St. John’s College Oxford)

Dennis O’Driscoll & Julie O’Callaghan
When : Thursday 30th July, 1.10pm
Where : Yeats Memorial Building. Admission : €5
Presented by The Yeats Society
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Dennis O’Driscoll’s eight books of poetry include Reality Check - shortlisted for the Irish Times/Poetry Now Prize, 2008. He has authored a selection of essays and reviews including the Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations (2006) and Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008). He has received several awards and is a member of Aosdána and the RHA.
He has worked as a civil servant since the age of 16. Born in Chicago in 1954, Julie O’Callaghan has lived in Ireland since 1974. Her collections of poetry include Edible Anecdotes
(1983), No Can Do (2000), and most recently Tell Me This Is Normal: New and Selected Poems (2008). Her collections of poetry for older children include The Book of Whispers (2006). She has received the Michael Hartnett Prize for poetry and is a member of Aosdána.

Book Launch for two books by Joan McBreen
“Heater Island” & “The Watchful Heart” Anthology of Poems and Essays
When : Thursday 30th July, 6.30pm
Where : The Glasshouse Hotel. Admission : free.

Theatre : The Great Yeats
Monologue play by Sam McCready on the life of John B. Yeats
When : Thursday 30th July, 8.30pm
Presented by The Yeats Society