Yeats Day Festival
The Yeats Day Festival will take place 12-16 June 2024
All events will take place at the Yeats Building, Sligo
12 June, 7pm
Author Jan Carson delivers the 2024 Niland Lecture “Becoming Various – Untangling the Knots of Northern Identity”.
13 June
at 1pm
O’Hehir’s Yeats Birthday cake and poetry readings with Eily Kilgannon students.
at 5pm
Sligo in Yeats: Launch of Dr Joe Hassett’s new book and exhibition.
14 June, 4pm
Poetry Afternoon Tea.
15 June, 11am
Irish Cures – a talk by author Cecily Gilligan.
16 June, 1pm
Bloomsday – Gorgonzola and Wine Readings from Ulysses- with Paul Murray, great grand nephew of May Murray, James Joyce’s mother.
