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.…
Plight of Yeats Society Sligo raised in the Dail
The Minister with responsibility for culture and the arts says she has asked officials in her department to meet as soon as possible with representatives of the Yeats Society Sligo. Minister Catherine Martin was replying this morning in the Dail to Sligo/Leitrim TD Marian Harkin, who raised the situation of…
Yeats event in Sligo this Thursday evening
The Yeats International Summer School has also fallen victim this year to the restrictions imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Had it gone ahead, tonight (Thursday) would have been its opening night. However, organisers are not letting the occasion go unmarked, as Susan O’Keeffe Director of Yeats Society Sligo, has been telling Ocean…
Yeats anniversaries commemorated in Sligo
Two Yeats anniversaries were commemorated in Sligo at the weekend. The 79th anniversary of the death of W B Yeats was marked on Sunday evening with a celebration of his works through poetry, musicand song in Drumncliffe Church, beside where the Nobel Prize-winning poet is buried. The commemoration was organised…