Yeats Society secures funding
The Yeats Society in Sligo has secured funding for next year. The society had faced closure if €100,000 couldn’t be raised by September. A GoFundMe page was set up which, as of time of writing, has raised €106,025 through donations from around the world including €20,000 from Sligo County Council.…
Yeats Society Sligo mark 100th anniversary of ‘The Second Coming’ poem
The Yeats Society, Sligo are hosting an online event this evening marking the centenary of ‘The Second Coming’ poem. This month marks the 100th anniversary of W.B. Yeats’s poem which was first published in the United States. An online event in conjunction with the National Library is taking place this…
Four Sligo organisations receive almost €19,000 in funding
Four Sligo organisations have received €18,750 under the 2020 Communities Integration Fund. €5,000 has been allocated for the Hawk’s Well Theatre, €5,000 for the Sligo Family Resource Centre, €4,600 for the Yeats Society and a further €4,150 for the Sligo Environmental Network. Susan O’Keefe is the Director of the Sligo…
Yeats day being celebrated in Sligo
Yeats Day is being celebrated in Sligo today. The 155th birthday of the Nobel Prize winning Poet, W.B. Yeats, is today and the Yeats Society in Sligo are marking it with a new takeaway ‘Coffee Hatch’ in the Yeats Building. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the 61st Yeats International…